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Nitty gritty

recoveringbuilder

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As the title says we’re getting into the nitty gritty now with so many things to make final decisions on.

 

Kitchen is all finalised, David l Douglas have been fantastic so far, we’ve had four visits to them and two visits from their project manager to the site, we’ve got samples of sink, door handles, worktop and paint colour and their service so far cannot be faulted. We decided to source our own range and fridge freezer and had to send them a link to the exact model so everything is in place for October 1st.

 

Elsewhere the work continues, however there are always little niggles that occur when you employ people to do jobs that you previously did yourself and they don’t seem to work in any order, they do a bit of this then move on to something else without completely finishing anything, they talk about doing something which you think means they’ll do it now but a few days go by and it doesn’t happen. We go along for a week or so quite happy then you notice something that’s not quite right and you have to go back to being not quite so nice to them to get it done properly.

 

The tiler who wanted ready mix adhesive is no more and after a lot of detective work I managed to track down the tiler we had in 2007 for our last build and have brought him on board.

 

You may be wondering why I am sourcing the trades of tiler, kitchen and plumber but this was the agreement with the builder as we wanted some control over some things and it has turned out to be the best way as we can dictate when certain things will happen and they must be ready for that to happen.

 

So this morning I’m meaning to go pick light fittings but it’s a dreich morning and I feel it may not physically happen, maybe online? Oh and by the way I am fed up of ordering things online, getting an order confirmation but they never send an invoice, I spent last night going through all my online orders and checking invoices then emailing the offenders for invoices, ho hum!

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vivienz

And it all takes so much time!  Fiddly, faffy, tiddly details that are for tiny things and take 80% of the time.  Drives me nuts, but it's often this level of attention to detail that makes the finished build look like a quality job.

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Hecateh
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Oh and by the way I am fed up of ordering things online, getting an order confirmation but they never send an invoice, I spent last night going through all my online orders and checking invoices then emailing the offenders for invoices, ho hum!

Me too.  

 

 

 

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ProDave
3 hours ago, vivienz said:

And it all takes so much time!  Fiddly, faffy, tiddly details that are for tiny things and take 80% of the time.  Drives me nuts, but it's often this level of attention to detail that makes the finished build look like a quality job.

I think @JSHarris coined the phrase "90% finished,only 90% left to do"

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joe90
18 minutes ago, ProDave said:

think @JSHarris coined the phrase "90% finished,only 90% left to do"

 

Ha, that’s very good, exactly how i feel.

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newhome

The invoicing is always an annoying faff but as well to do it as you go while you still remember the details that put it off. 

 

Sounds like you are going great guns now! The caravan life will soon be over ?

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