Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Small problems and unfinished work




Bathroom problems

Towel rail in wrong place, horizontal toilet buttons put in vertically, mirrors not arrived (now no longer made), 1x soft close toilet seat doesn't close softly etc

Door handle stops Jalousie closing

Incompetence personified!

New furniture arrived




Some minor problems

Things not straight ...







No scaffolding!


Window ledge not sealed very well


Dutch slate arrived and patio being laid



Jalousie broken


Water problem 4 days in


UK satellite plus satellite Internet now working


Satellite Internet via UK VPN gives me 5% bandwidth

8Mbs download speed becomes 0.4Mbps when UK proxy is enabled :-(

Window mess

Didn't spot this before - complete botch job fitting the jalousie, and a cable elsewhere had now fallen down (we already had to have another jalousie fixed).


The aftermath

We found that there was no pipe from the kitchen sink ... it went into the ground!

A new pipe was laid and a hole needed to be drilled so the kitchen unit also had to be removed.

Here is the scene after the pipe layers successfully managed to drill a hole through the wall ... as well as a water and electricity cables, sigh.

A little piece of England


I wonder of something is missing ...



Dutch grass is the best!