Week 71

Met on site with the kitchen guy and went through everything again with electrician - decide to add Ethernet cables throughout.

Also, sanitation guy has started work fitting things, partition walls and ceilings being done, bathroom wall being built too.

Week 70

Met on site with the builder, electrician, architect, sanitation and roofing people. Progress is still going on!! Heating engineer will start work next week, electrician too. Kitchen guy will come to check the site on Monday. Happy days.

Week 69

Met the builder and architect, still no final contract ... Lawyer sent an email just before the meeting asking for some documents (not sure why this had to wait til the last minute).
New builder peeved and wants payment on his account within 10 days.


Went to see some stone at the weekend, still can't find anything decent for €30 m2 (brutto).


Also went to house and happy to see progress, outside wall re-isolated (wrongly done by old builder), remaining inner walls now done in brick, roof insulated, loft floor in place, and some weird material on the floors covering the concrete.

Also ask to redesign the bathroom with 2 hours notice. Indeed, the original design didn't work but why wait now to mention it? It takes 6 months (apparently) to sort out contracts and redesigning a major room needs to be done in 2 hours, sigh.

Week 68

Not heard so much - final contract finally arrived but no news on the compensation claim and no reply to my questioning of the status of it.


Can't seem to find decent tiles within budget - there is 1 supplier only that the builder uses.