Tuesday 23 November 2010

Working long hours

Up here, the days get rather short at this time of year. There were just seven hours between sunrise and sunset today. But since the decorators arrived yesterday, the working day has become longer.
The taper (who tapes and fills the joints in the drywall boarding) arrives at 8.00am and works on late into the evening, head torch on. Another coat of filler tomorrow and he'll be ready for sanding it all down on Thursday. That will be a day for us to to keep well away until the dust has settled. Then it will be straight on to painting.


The excitement today (I think the joiners might call it something other than that) has been the fitting of our glass pocket door on the utility room. When open, it sits in a metal frame inside the partition wall, completely out of sight. Never having had one before we weren't quite sure what to expect - but we are delighted with it. It slides out really smoothly, and it takes up none of the room space that a conventional door does. I'm now wondering why all houses don't all have doors built like that.


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