I should be over the moon

But I’m not. A team of workmen turned up this morning at 8.00 am, before it was even light, to install the windows and doors in my new house. It rained all night and was still drizzling at the time so I knew the interior would be partially flooded and phoned Didier, the builder’s project manager.

I said that I thought it was ill-advised to go ahead and he said that he’d be right over. However, I had to leave for a medical appointment today so could not stay to discuss the matter and just told him that he should take note of our conversation.

The work went ahead in my absence and although it was still underway when I returned in the afternoon, I didn’t feel up to going up to take a look and only did so after the workers had completed the job and left. Under normal circumstances I’d have been very pleased with the results as the following shots show.

The last two shots show more clearly why I’m not at all happy. If you look through the double doors on the right into the interior you can see the large pool of rainwater that there is on the floor at the living room end.

Now if you look through the same door in this close-up towards the bedroom end of the house you can make out the large amount of water on the floor in that section also.

I have no idea when the builder will be back to continue work. What is absolutely clear, however, is that with all of the doors and windows now closed and locked, there’s absolutely no possibility that the interior will be able to dry out any time soon, especially as more water is still entering via the roof fault in the angle at the back of the house.

This is precisely why I was trying all along to avoid a winter build and in fact it’s turning out worse, much worse than I could ever have envisaged. I don’t know when I will have my meeting to discuss what is now our dispute concerning the roof but even though I wanted to still take it a bit easy tomorrow, I’m going to have to make yet another phone call to find out what’s going to be done about the appalling state of the interior because with even more rain forecast for the coming week, it can only get worse.