Builders Arrive

Last week it was "We'll start on Wednesday afternoon, or defininitely on Thursday."  This week it was "We'll ring you Thursday evening".   Come Friday morning, I got bored waiting and gave Marcus a call.  He was waiting for the building inspector at his last project to get the final sign off, then he was planning to come over to ours in the afternoon.  Finally, around 15:00, they turned up to bring their tools and start measuring up.  They marked out where the steels are going and sussed out how they were going to start the job, before leaving at 17:00.  One of them (Simon) is coming on Monday to cut out the holes for the steel beams.  Then Marcus will be here on Tuesday to get final measurements and order up materials and to meet with the building inspector.  I've also requested a meeting to go over a few details with him first thing.  There may be a day or two delay before they get the steels delivered, and then they'll be underway.  Unfortunately they'll then be stopping for Chirstmas.  I hope they can leave it weatherproof before taking a week and a half off.  And I hope we don't get too much wind and rain during that time.  We'll wait and see.