Broadband nearly working, spider gone
Got home to find some more work had been done.
The beam upstairs had been completely covered up and plastered in.
The steels downstairs had also been screened with some plasterboard ready for the plaster. The door has been removed downstairs and where once had been the missing floorboard between the rooms was now a strip of concrete drying happily.
I’d been in touch with Ray by text earlier in the day and we’d come to an agreed price for the moving of the attic door and the sealing up of the door downstairs. I’d also agreed to give him £3k in a fat envelope the next morning, this I later sorted out and hid in the stove for him to collect in the morning.
The Sky broadband is working too, anyway the little – once amber – smiley face was now a gleaming white, over five weeks without a connection I eagerly switched on my computer. I ran the speedtest app from within Windows 8.1 to find it running at 1.2Mb/sec, subsequent tests then taking it down to 0.4Mb/sec which basically was exactly the same as I had before they managed to cut me off. Still it is better than nothing and I must congratulate the wonderful Andy for continuing the work today and getting it working. Also on inspection of the kitchen, the rather dodgy connection box on the window (the one with the spider living in it) has been replaced with a nice new shiny white one, so he must have been able to get into the building when the builders had been in earlier today. What a good lad, shame all the other BT guys weren’t as diligent as him.
All going well, just have to make sure not to turn the stove on J
Sleeping downstairs at the moment, everything dusty, house freezing and the floor is draughty with wisps of cold air coming up between the floorboards.