B....er, I had not realised that the rugby is only on every two weeks.
We went to bed last night with the wind starting to get up once more, however it fizzled out at about two o’clock so we had quite a good nights sleep.
I know that it’s not my birthday just yet, but after yesterdays muscle wrenching block carrying, to make the dry brick wall wind shade, my body today is not in good enough shape to contemplate more similar aerobics without the use of assistance in the shape of a wheel barrow. My body will recover in a few days but a wheel barrow and cement mixer will become really well used tools once I am let loose on the outside areas of the house. So whilst I was at Fran Marie’s (Taberno’s builders merchants) this morning I bought a Rolls Royce type of wheel barrow that has a handle that can be pulled up and over the barrow so that one can hook it up to a hoist for lifting bricks, sand, cement or sandwiches up onto another plane. It also has a very deep carrying compartment so that I make less trips backwards and forwards with my loads. Sadly it’s raining this afternoon so I can’t go and give it a test drive.
When the builders arrived this morning, we showed Dario the front door that we would like him to get for us, and we told him where to get it from (he gets a discount when he buys these items). We told him that he must go and buy it ‘rapido’ because it was the only one of it’s type in the builders merchants/DIY shop in Albox.
Let me tell you what happens with items like this. We have a set price agreement with the builder for the completion of the house to set standards which include windows, doors, built in wardrobes, tiles, plumbing, electrics, bathroom fixtures and fittings like this. He has also built into that fixed price a set amount for all of these items. For instance all the tile work will be done to a price of €7/square metre. We have gone over budget with most of the tiles so we will be paying between €700 and €1000 extra on top of the €7 for the tiles that we have chosen (I have estimated that we will have about 370 square meters of tiles when it is all done). The kitchen allowance is €5000 and therefore we will try to keep within this, anything over we will pay extra for. The front door is budgeted at €400 and the door we set our hearts on is €850 so we will pay the extra €450. It is a very fair system and stops people abusing the fixed price to the builder. It also focuses our minds on not being too excessive in our demands. We are a few thousand over budget at the moment but the biggest challenge will be in trying to keep within the kitchen budget. If at the end of the day we get the house that we want and are not completely broke, we will have achieved our objective.
The outside walls to the north, east, west and half of the south sides are now built, but then of course tomorrow is another Sunday, I’m sure that they having more than one Sunday off each week.
We went to bed last night with the wind starting to get up once more, however it fizzled out at about two o’clock so we had quite a good nights sleep.
I know that it’s not my birthday just yet, but after yesterdays muscle wrenching block carrying, to make the dry brick wall wind shade, my body today is not in good enough shape to contemplate more similar aerobics without the use of assistance in the shape of a wheel barrow. My body will recover in a few days but a wheel barrow and cement mixer will become really well used tools once I am let loose on the outside areas of the house. So whilst I was at Fran Marie’s (Taberno’s builders merchants) this morning I bought a Rolls Royce type of wheel barrow that has a handle that can be pulled up and over the barrow so that one can hook it up to a hoist for lifting bricks, sand, cement or sandwiches up onto another plane. It also has a very deep carrying compartment so that I make less trips backwards and forwards with my loads. Sadly it’s raining this afternoon so I can’t go and give it a test drive.
When the builders arrived this morning, we showed Dario the front door that we would like him to get for us, and we told him where to get it from (he gets a discount when he buys these items). We told him that he must go and buy it ‘rapido’ because it was the only one of it’s type in the builders merchants/DIY shop in Albox.
Let me tell you what happens with items like this. We have a set price agreement with the builder for the completion of the house to set standards which include windows, doors, built in wardrobes, tiles, plumbing, electrics, bathroom fixtures and fittings like this. He has also built into that fixed price a set amount for all of these items. For instance all the tile work will be done to a price of €7/square metre. We have gone over budget with most of the tiles so we will be paying between €700 and €1000 extra on top of the €7 for the tiles that we have chosen (I have estimated that we will have about 370 square meters of tiles when it is all done). The kitchen allowance is €5000 and therefore we will try to keep within this, anything over we will pay extra for. The front door is budgeted at €400 and the door we set our hearts on is €850 so we will pay the extra €450. It is a very fair system and stops people abusing the fixed price to the builder. It also focuses our minds on not being too excessive in our demands. We are a few thousand over budget at the moment but the biggest challenge will be in trying to keep within the kitchen budget. If at the end of the day we get the house that we want and are not completely broke, we will have achieved our objective.
The outside walls to the north, east, west and half of the south sides are now built, but then of course tomorrow is another Sunday, I’m sure that they having more than one Sunday off each week.
4 comments:
You'll be in SO much trouble if you had to have a RollsRoyce Barrow and Mum doesnt get the kitchen she wants.......tread carefully Father !!! :o)
As usual the progress is very exciting......great sky as well..very moody.
Dx
Priority my dear!!!!
you'll be so hungry if thats your attitude!! :o)
But I will have a super work shop and garage, what more could I possibly need ?????
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