1st February....4 WEEKS TO HANDOVER !!!!!

Everything is now falling into place.

The EDF contractors arrived Tuesday to dig up the road and lay the cable through to the basement. Now I had the job of running the duct under the house a few days before for the cable to be put in....you could get someone to do this, but hey, lets save some money here!!!! Afterall, given that Pam's choice of letterbox in the basement was 464 euros and the led lights on the shelves in the kitchen to illuminate the dog food cost £600, we have to make some savings!!!!!

I wouldn't say it all went in fine and without a hitch, no, I definitely wouldn't say that, and I'll spare you the details about feeding the 'drawstring' through the duct by dangling 30 metres of heavy plastic duct from the top balcony at the Huf down to basement level in order to allow a heavy weight and string attached the benefit of gravity and to go from one end to the other, with Pam giving me clear and loud and explicit instructions about what to do next......, and the fact that the drawstring broke while they were pulling the cable through!!!! But the important thing is that the cable is now in!!! They joint it on Monday, I have scheduled the meter to be installed on Tuesday and the Huf Electrician in on Wednesday...fine if everybody turns up on time.

My fellow Huf blogger Ric and Claudia ( he in the land of cuckoo clocks) seems to be stuck on the decorating phase at the moment whereas this is completely finished. Well it would be finished had not Pam decided that she wanted to have another telephone socket in the basement hall, which will involve the digging up of most of the floor downstairs and some of the new plasterwork. She seems serious about this, claiming quite emphatically that she told me about this weeks ago,....and why hadn't I done anything about it!!!!

What Ric (see link to the Swiss site) doesn't realise is that we still have to install the kitchen AFTER the Huf people have left. I guess that he has had one of those lovely StilArt people at Huf come a design a wonderful kitchen creation and the main benefit of this is they can install it all within the programme they have set out. The main disbenefit is the cost, which is a considerable disbenefit!!!.
I have the kitchen units arriving into the garage on the 27th February, the kitchen installer coming on the 2/3/4th March and the templaters for the worktops shortly after. They require 10 days to rush off the South America to mine the Quartz and come back to make the worktops and put them in, then my installer returns to finish off. So, should be finished by ....lets say July???

So Ric, whilst we may be in by the 15th March, we may be eating take away Pizza for some time to come!!!!