The interior and things 22nd February 2007
The handover will take place at 11am on Thursday 1st March!!!!
Delivery of kitchen will happen before then and we use of the garage from the 27th February
There still seems much to be done, but Rudiger assures me it will only take a couple of days to finish everything, clean the place top to bottom and lay the carpets......well there's a story there!!!
We were goin to have grey.....all the Huf Hauses are grey carpet !!! All of them, either that or tiles or wood, but grey is the thing with all that black and white everywhere.
Last time we were in the Huf village in Hartenfels, we said we would have beige carpet....why???? well don't ask me ... an abberation it certainly was!!!
Back in October we changed it back again to grey for the living area, leaving the bedrooms in beige.
I'm not surprised that Huf was confused and when the carpet arrived at the house.....it was all beige!!!!
Ok, so Huf said they would change it and then Pam says yesterday....'what colour will the stairs be'??
'Well, I think they will be beige.' I said 'In fact, the carpet fitter is there at the house and he will be laying it in about an hours time'
'Its got to be grey....got to be grey......OK the bedrooms will have to be beige, but the stairs and landing have got to be grey'
A couple of seconds later I was on the phone to Rudiger our project manager.....I started by saying that Pam and I had been discussing the colour of the carpet and I heard him groan at the other end.
I explained the problem.......'Its got to be grey'
I guess as a project manager these are the things you have to deal with....really difficult clients who keep changing thier minds. We had been quite good up to then. But to be fair he said calmly that he would make enquiries and come back.
I drove past the house today and the carpet fitter had gone!!!!! I guess he was thinking that it would be wise to drive back to Germany for a few days and spend time with his family and wait till these mad English finally decided on what they wanted.
Huf were brilliant..........they said they would order the grey carpet and ditch the beige and probably not charge us any extra!!!!! How's that for customer service !!! Where else would you find someone prepared to do that!!!! Brilliant!!!
We'll have to wait until after Handover for the carpet to arrive but that's no problem.
Oh and they glue the carpet down......no underfelt, no grippa rods...this is all glued to the floor and they put the skirting boards on after the carpet has been laid. 'Its just so much neater and it is flat......with no bumps' he says.
And the lights, well if you have a moment......go look at Ric Capucho's blog (Link on my page), Whilst he's in Switzerland and I'm in Engerland we have identical problems.
One of my many mistakes was to buy a 'Catellini and Smith ....Turcio Soffito light on Ebay last year......it is 6 foot long and has 36 strands of heavy nickel plated cables , with a light attached to each cable. These are arranged randomly in a swirling fashion and the arrangement weighs around 60 kilos....yes really!!!!!!! It requires a 10inch RSJ to provide the support!!!
Well the idea was always to hang it in the gallery, but given the difficulties of the Huf designs in the area that Ric so eloquently describes....it looks as if my Catellini and Smith Turcio Soffito will be relegated to the garage for ever....or possibly put back on Ebay!!!!!
The handover will take place at 11am on Thursday 1st March!!!!
Delivery of kitchen will happen before then and we use of the garage from the 27th February
There still seems much to be done, but Rudiger assures me it will only take a couple of days to finish everything, clean the place top to bottom and lay the carpets......well there's a story there!!!
We were goin to have grey.....all the Huf Hauses are grey carpet !!! All of them, either that or tiles or wood, but grey is the thing with all that black and white everywhere.
Last time we were in the Huf village in Hartenfels, we said we would have beige carpet....why???? well don't ask me ... an abberation it certainly was!!!
Back in October we changed it back again to grey for the living area, leaving the bedrooms in beige.
I'm not surprised that Huf was confused and when the carpet arrived at the house.....it was all beige!!!!
Ok, so Huf said they would change it and then Pam says yesterday....'what colour will the stairs be'??
'Well, I think they will be beige.' I said 'In fact, the carpet fitter is there at the house and he will be laying it in about an hours time'
'Its got to be grey....got to be grey......OK the bedrooms will have to be beige, but the stairs and landing have got to be grey'
A couple of seconds later I was on the phone to Rudiger our project manager.....I started by saying that Pam and I had been discussing the colour of the carpet and I heard him groan at the other end.
I explained the problem.......'Its got to be grey'
I guess as a project manager these are the things you have to deal with....really difficult clients who keep changing thier minds. We had been quite good up to then. But to be fair he said calmly that he would make enquiries and come back.
I drove past the house today and the carpet fitter had gone!!!!! I guess he was thinking that it would be wise to drive back to Germany for a few days and spend time with his family and wait till these mad English finally decided on what they wanted.
Huf were brilliant..........they said they would order the grey carpet and ditch the beige and probably not charge us any extra!!!!! How's that for customer service !!! Where else would you find someone prepared to do that!!!! Brilliant!!!
We'll have to wait until after Handover for the carpet to arrive but that's no problem.
Oh and they glue the carpet down......no underfelt, no grippa rods...this is all glued to the floor and they put the skirting boards on after the carpet has been laid. 'Its just so much neater and it is flat......with no bumps' he says.
And the lights, well if you have a moment......go look at Ric Capucho's blog (Link on my page), Whilst he's in Switzerland and I'm in Engerland we have identical problems.
One of my many mistakes was to buy a 'Catellini and Smith ....Turcio Soffito light on Ebay last year......it is 6 foot long and has 36 strands of heavy nickel plated cables , with a light attached to each cable. These are arranged randomly in a swirling fashion and the arrangement weighs around 60 kilos....yes really!!!!!!! It requires a 10inch RSJ to provide the support!!!
Well the idea was always to hang it in the gallery, but given the difficulties of the Huf designs in the area that Ric so eloquently describes....it looks as if my Catellini and Smith Turcio Soffito will be relegated to the garage for ever....or possibly put back on Ebay!!!!!
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