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No roofer

by Liz & Matt Coates Aug.18.2006 12:25:15 am


I had a useful meeting with Andrew this morning, to discuss the next steps and go through some of the details, including working out what parts of the original spec we can trim to save a bit of money.  Mostly this will be in the form of internal finishing, tiling and flooring that we can do ourselves or defer until later, plus maybe some external landscaping.

I asked about alternatives to pvc guttering and he suggested ‘seamless’ aluminium, which is rolled to the required lengths on site.  He said he had not used this before but he took it in his stride. He’s obviously getting used to our wierd suggestions, although he is still dubious about the idea of laying down heavy duty ducting under the floorboards to allow me to run cables from any room in the house to any other any time I want to.  Pete came up with a local bloke that does the aluminium guttering and thinks that it should not be much more expensive than the standard pvc alternative.

Too wet for the roofer to do any more today, although he did deliver a large load of insulation for the flat roof.  In the mean time, they have finished off the inside of the new dorma.  They also removed the remaining plasterboard from the sloping part of the roof so that they can put some insulation in the gap.  Tomorrow they plan to brick up Emma’s existing window (which now looks into the new bedroom) and knock through to give Emma access to the wardrobe/cupboard that is currently accessible from our bedroom.  I’m now off to empty all of my clothes and all of our spare duvets, pillows and sleeping bags out of it - though I’m not quite sure where I’m going to put it all.

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