Well pleased

When I looked out of my caravan at around 8.45 am all was quiet up at the house and the tiles that had been stacked outside at the rear were still there, so I thought that nothing was happening. I’d already been up there at around 7.00 am and had opened as many windows and doors as I could (I still couldn’t open the double doors in the living room because the builder still had the keys) to let some cool air inside because it was quite warm in there with the shutters having been left open for several days.

So I was pleasantly surprised when I was driving out shortly after 9.30 am to collect the paint for the shutters that had been delivered to a ‘point relais’ in Montignac to find that the tilers had arrived and had already started work some time before. When I looked inside the interior was filled with a thick cloud of dust and the boss asked if I had the keys to the living room doors. I didn’t, of course, because the builder had them and hadn’t thought to issue them to the tilers who were rather put out, so the builder had shot themselves in the foot.

After I’d picked up the paint I went inside to check on progress and was pleased to see that a waterproof area had ben laid for the shower even though the mosaic tiles for it are not yet available and a good start had been made in the living room.

Things had moved on quite a bit more when I looked in again in the early afternoon.

I looked back in at around 5.00 pm just before they finished for the day and took some final shots. I didn’t want to go into the house after they’d gone in case I did any damage to the floor even though they said that the floor could take weight after only a very brief delay and were walking on it themselves.

They will not have finished the corridor today and the bathroom and ‘cellier’ floors are still to do. This morning I gave the boss a copy of my tiling plan for the bathroom so I’m also looking forward to finding out tomorrow what the deal will be for them to tile all of the walls in there and also the separate toilet.