My bad

The swivel clips that hold all of the house’s small shutters back against the wall when they’re open are attached to the walls below the bottom edges of the shutters, which is normal. When they fitted the clips for the shutters for the three full height double doors, the shutter men asked me if I wanted the clips below the shutters, the same as for the small ones, or on the edges.

Silly me, I should have asked what is usual, but I didn’t and after thinking about it for a few moments I told them to go ahead and fit the clips below the bottom edges. As soon as I saw the finished job I was uneasy because the clips would be very close to the ground, but I thought I could live with them.

But what I didn’t allow for was for someone who knows about these things ie Chantal, my lovely ex-neighbour from Plazac 🙂 to say as soon as she saw them that they looked silly. So that was it, they would have to be changed and today was as good a day as any to do it.

I couldn’t finish the job because the builder is playing silly buggers and has taken away the keys to the double doors making it impossible for me to open the shutters, but I could at least remove the clips today and make the holes left in the walls good and can refit them some time in the future when the builder stops playing stupid games. Here are some before and after shots.

While I was at it I thought I’d tackle another couple of small jobs that have been niggling me. The ‘Crépi’ gang did a good job overall but they wanted to get in and out as quickly as possible and their attention to detail left a bit to be desired.

They only applied ‘Crépi’ to the column in the front of the house down to the level of the porch which I have never thought was low enough. Obviously the ground level will be below that of the porch and the ‘Crépi’ has to go right down to ground level, which means going below it. So I decided to add some extra myself, as shown below.

I’ll need to decide how I’ll finish the porch off – probably with terra cotta tiles that’ll be bull-nosed along the front – but whatever I decide to do, the column ‘Crépi’ will need to go the whole way down to the ground, which it now does.

They also hadn’t been as careful as they might have been taking the ‘Crépi’ down as low as they should have in various other places around the house. It’s no big deal as I was left with two spare bags of material and later on I’ll be able to go around and patch in the high spots at my convenience. There was one small area on the front however, that was getting on my nerves and I decided to patch that today while I was at it.

So that was it for today, another lovely hot, sunny day. It was a bit too windy for flying so I think I made the best use of the time available by tackling the little jobs that I did do.