Girder your loins
Got home yesterday to find a huge girder in what’s going to be the kitchen.
Thought to myself how the heck did they get that in there and then walked into the corridor to find an even larger, much larger, girder sticking out of the future living room door. Amazing, how on Earth did they manage to get that in there and underneath that a few more too.
Scattered around too were a number of huge Acro-props all ready for the boosting my roof before inserting the lintel to support the roof weight.
At work today and I got a call from Ray to tell me the progress on the build.
He told me he was about to leave for the weekend as he didn’t want to start on joining the rooms together today but preferred to start it next week. He said that the building surveyors would be in next week and he preferred to work the job around that. Also too the mortar on the new brickwork had to settle down, it turns out that the roof not only needed supporting with the lintel and the main beam braced but the brickwork at the bathroom cupboard end needed replacing as it was crumbling under the weight of the badly supported beam. I asked Ray if this was going to cost me lots more, he said not to worry it wouldn’t be too much more… how good is Ray.
Not only has Ray expressed that this extra work is going to not cost too much more, but he’s done the work. I love someone who just gets on with it and I love someone who’s smart enough to be able to pick apart a problem, get to the bottom of the issues, fix them and fix them all. I don’t know of many people who could work that way nowadays, sounds very old fartish on my behalf but I think I’m right in saying this, he really is a rarity… smart, brilliant at his job and good value too.
On the subject of money I’ve spent the past few days slinking up to minibank tills and extracting £500. Tradespeople do not take VISA generally, so it’s cash or cheques, so I have to find a good way of getting cash from a credit card with as little shrapnel as possible. Basically a £500 quid limit a day means I have to do this every day, this withdrawal incurs a charge of £14.95 and as extracting cash on a card will not attract the 0% discount that I need to finance this project I’ll have to do a balance transfer to another card before the first interest payment happens on the card I’m using to extract the monies. This balance transfer will incur a further 2% or 3% charge but after this there’s no interest to pay on this cash extraction, it is costly though but it’s the only way I know of getting cash from credit cards.
It is fun to have £500 in my wallet every day, dangerous I won’t be making a habit of it, but I could get used to having big wodges of cash in my pocket.