There are days when nothing seems to happen, and people you want to reach are unreachable.
(The good ones are unreachable because too busy, the bad ones are reachable because idle.)
So perhaps the frustration is a good thing.
Today so many things happened, at times it was frantic.
The plumbers started their first fix. I should explain what that is.
Both the electricians and plumbers install cabling and pipework in the walls before the plasterers.
The dreaded plasterers! They make such a mess, cover the walls with plaster board and skim it,
then the electricians and plumbers come back and connect the things to the walls.
That is the second fix.
I don't just have to cope with plumbers and plasterers, and electricians, and ... ,
but also with Unix, our border collie dog. She has to be taken for a walk. Today I had to watch my step,
I counted a hundred tiny snails in about ten meters. It is that time of year, and a warm wet day.
Redhead Roofers came up trumps today.
I telephoned them 08.58 to supply and install a soil pipe ridge vent.
At 12.41 a van turned up to fit the ridge vent. This is it.
Here it is being carried up. It now has fitted the adapter to connect it to the round soil pipe.
What is this soil pipe?. It is the pipe that takes away what is flushed down the toilet.
Without it, when you flushed the toilet,
there might be gurgle of foul air back up the S-bends of sinks and wash basins.
This soil pipe vent allows the sewer the breath up where we are not.
They had a bit of a problem, the ridge vent had to be positioned between the wood rafters of the roof.
But the rafters did not neatly align with the ridge tiles. So they had to cut two ridge tiles.
The main activity today was the plumber's first fix.
Here is the plumbing for the washbasin in the bathroom. Hot and cold supply and waste pipe.
Beyond are the flow and return to the towel rail.
This is the soil pipe for the toilet, with the pipe to the ridge vent going up on the left.
That floor covering is just temporary. The real flooring won't be laid until after all this mucky activity.
Two other things today.
Firstly, Paul came, he is a flue fitter. He looked at the problem and took away house drawings.
Secondly, I erected a letter box in a temporary position. Margie is delivering a postcard.
This will allow us to tell people of our change of address to the Lodge rather than the interim Cottage.