The good, the bad and the builders

Builders - about half a dozen of them, with three vans - arrived right on schedule, just before eight on Monday morning to replace our windows. It should have been quite a gentle start: we thought we were ready for them. They had visited in advance, declared the dormer window in my attic study to be sound and not affected, and had measured all the relevant windows. The scaffolding was in place, so there external access, and we had cleared space next to the affected windows indoors. All we now had to do was take down curtains at the last minute. Builders would be working in one room at a time, starting with the purely external task of replacing the downpipe and guttering.

( Such optimism! )

This is work that needed doing, and I'm glad it is being done. At least, I will be glad when it is done. I'm just not enjoying the disruption of it actually happening. I would be tempted to go out and leave them to it: but durham_rambler has a full schedule of online meetings this week. Also, from time to time the builders lock themselves out, and have to ring the doorbell for admission...