More Workmen come Calling

We had a couple more small jobs planned  – but who knows when the workmen might arrive to attend to them?  It’s a bit of “wait and see” while we wait patiently.  The glass man phoned through bright and early yesterday morning to advise that he would be there shortly.  He and his assistant arrived with the glass splash-back we were having installed behind the stove, carrying it carefully inside using a large suction cup.

Installing the splash-back

There is a lot more to a splash-back than just a piece of glass with paint applied to one side.  The glass used is low iron content glass to obtain a near perfect colour match. After cutting, the glass has all its edges polished and then washed. Then it is put into the furnace for tempering where the glass is heated to 650 degrees Celsius and rapidly cooled to produce the hardening effect.  After checking for imperfections, it is transported to the painters for surface treatment, sprayed, sealed and baked in the painting oven.  The fitting process took about half an hour, and the workmen will be back at the end of the week to remove the temporary wooden prop holding it in place. 

Some of our interior paint work needed a few touch-ups as we felt it was not up to standard.  After voicing our concerns to the construction company, the friendly young painter finally arrived this morning.  “I’m here to fix up someone else’s mistakes”, he declared. The final quality control check through the house before we took possession did not pick up these imperfections, and the original painting company is no longer used, we believe.  The hall needed the most attention, and he set to work first sanding the wall before applying  new paint.  The other jobs were smaller and were soon attended to. 

   

Sanding down the wall

Robin has been busy too, changing the position of the clothesline from the back fence to the side fence, where we have recently had a new concrete pad laid.  A lot of measuring had been done before I was asked to come out to help.  A few holes needed drilling to attach the fittings.  The battery drill was next to useless so out came the heavy electric drill to do the job.

Drilling holes in the fence

This was a two person job and I was needed to be the builder’s mate and hold our “Super Fold Clothesline” in the correct place while it was reconnected back together again.

 

Just about done

With this job out of the way, Robin can now order his new shed, which will be erected where the clothesline used to be.  You know what it’s like, this job can’t be finished until something else has been done.  We are getting there, slowly.