Tuesday 5th December 2006

Internals well underway!!!!!!

We have THREE HUF vans ....all the way from Germany and a lot of workmen.

As you creep round the house, there's activity in most of the rooms. Basement, ground floor and upstairs. Cables everywhere, insulation being laid, sawing of timber, arc lights and a crate of beer (untouched) I noticed in the lounge.

They had an early night last night (6pm) because they had an early start (2am) and got held up again at the French Port (strikes again).

There's been no action on the Gas or the Electricity front and I anticipate some delay in the completion because we can't fire up the central heating to dry the place out !!! BT however were really helpful and have delivered ducts and cable which is in the back of the car ready to connect my telephone.

The floor screed goes in next week then everyone goes back for Christmas for two weeks. After that there's 7 weeks of furious activity with painting, tiling,and carpeting and then its job done!!! Onto the next Huf Haus. They have a few in England, Germany and Switzerland and one very large one in Moscow.

I will have to arrange installation of the kitchen after the handover. If you choose the Huf kitchen it can be done during these internal works but we have chosen something different which means we have to wait. And, just to make life more complicated, rather than just get a kitchen firm to provide evrything, we will have cabinets from one supplier, worktops from another, appliance from another, and installation from someone else. This bit could take as long as it took to put the house up....or longer!!!!