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Hi all,

Just need a quick scream, I have had builders in laying a new kitchen floor for me and they are doing a fantastic job. Quality of the work looks out standing and it is quite a big job.

But.............they have been here every day (except Sunday) since last Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am banished to my upstairs office but the noise, dust etc is driving me mad.

Rant over, ahh that feels better.

Thanks, Mandy

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No mater when time you set out, you always get there at the same time

Poor you! Sounds like a nightmare. Can you get out for a walk? Bit of fresh air, change of scene might help?

I know what you mean, where having an extention added and the builder arrive at 7.20 every morning (including weekends), just want a lie in till 8 o'clock and not have to make them all tea

We had a similer thing here but I just stayed in bed anyway

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Hi,

Sorry to hear lots of you are in the same boat.

I would love to go out but I work from home so can't really.

SFOH, 7.20am!! my that is early poor you, mine turn up at 10am for coffee! they do work late but that means by the time I have cleaned enough to cook it is past 9pm

Lets hope everyone is done and dusted soon, Mandy

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I've had to come home to work this afternoon as builders are putting a new roof on our office building and they are hammering etc right above my desk. I thought the fluorescent light fitting was going to fall on my head! Its bad enough at work, but must be rotten when its own home.

Hope it gets done soon Mandy.

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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
~ Mary Kay Ash

Now I am feeling apprehensive (like OH has been feeling for weeks) about the builders in our house. They were to start on monday (and were there long enough to discuss it all over a long cup of tea and most of the biscuits I left out), and the tools arrived late yesterday. But work starts today and I dread going home tonight - another start at 10am crowd who reckon they'll be there til 8pm daily......

Jennie,

Lucky you getting back from work, hope it is all done today for you.

Good luck winged one, I hope it is quick. I feel bad now, they are working really hard and I have never even thought about buscuits

Hope we all get finished soon, Mandy

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Unfortunately ours has been going on for seven weeks so far. So far they have managed to knock two holes in the ceiling in the ladies toilet, and two light fittings have been knocked to the floor! On Friday the rain was so bad it leaked in and soaked a number of desks. I sat this morning wearing my hard hat and just wished I hard some ear defenders. Apparently we've another four weeks to go yet.

And yes, I know I should be working ..........

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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
~ Mary Kay Ash

Hope they're finished soon Mandy & I'm sure it'll all be worth it. We had the builders in earlier this year to fit a new roof, the dust & rubble was everywhere & we had scaffolding on the house for a few weeks. They fitted us in around a bank holiday but only took the Sunday off themselves so we had to be up each morning for their arrival at about 7.45am. As I'm a vain 'so & so' & hate to be seen without make -up & hair blow dried this meant I had to get up at the crack of dawn! They were a good bunch & after several days I was a dab hand at ' 2 sugars, strong tea, one sugar weak tea, extra strong black coffee, can of coke, orange kit kat, milk kit kat etc.'! The only trouble was that not long after we had all the windows & doors replaced as well so I had to go through it all again. Just keep thinking of that lovely new floor.

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

I was recently warned by a friend, whose now OH used to labour during college hols, of the dangers of being labelled a "hungry house". But I had a huge pack of biccies left on the counter (with the teabags, coffee granules, sugar and mugs), which I thought would last a week. It wouldn't even last a day going by the damage done to it on 1 short meeting! I can see my shopping trolley being much larger than normal for the next "6-8 weeks luv" and hoping that they will actually be gone by Christmas!

Never leave a whole pack out!

If you know how many workmen there will be, leave two biscuits per workman. If you leave a pack they will 'need' a pack a day!

When we had the extension done I tried to vary things a little - we had 7:30-4:30 workmen, good 'cause they are gone early but not so good on the laze around front!

I reckoned on plain drink to start, drink and biscuit mid-morning, plain drink at lunch, drink and cake at around 3pm. It was amazing how often they needed to work in or near the kitchen when I was baking!

Oh, I generally only have time to bake at weekends, so maybe the leftovers can make a monday morning treat. Otherwise, it'll be whatever biccies I have in the tub on the counter....they mustn't have been good enough yesterday (last of the fig rolls and a few malted milks) cos they bought their own raspberry creams and a chocolate log cake (cheapy kind). yes, methinks a baking session at weekends might be welcomed as long as I don't go overboard.

you all dont realise how lucky you are, we have been trying to get somone to fix our roof since june, it leaks in everytime it rains, no one will come out because they are all too busy or they arrange to come and just dont show

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Yo an' Bob
Walk lightly on the earth
take only what you need
give all you can
and your produce will be bountifull

Oh I have been waiting to get this extension built for the past 3 years, and the kitchen was earmarked for replacement when we moved in 5 1/2 years ago. But everything has slowed right down in the property area over here in the past year - sudedenly all the companies have free time and are willing to come and look at smaller projects.

Hope you get someone soon for your roof though, and before the decent weather disappears again (at least there's plenty of dry at the minute).

Seems I should have been grateful, you all seem to have it much worse than I did.

They have finished now and it was so nice to have the house back last night, my poor cats were going mad the food was moving from room to room and they hid in the office with me most of the time.

The fllor still has a residue of grout which will take ages to clean completley but it is my mess and my house Now the OH wants the living room done and has lifted half the floor already Of course we can't afford it just now so I am living in chaos!

Good luck to you all, Mandy

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Glad you've got it all finished now Mandy, tell O.H. to put that floor back down immediately! The cat we inherited from the neighbours spent most of the time under a bush at the bottom of the garden when the builders were here. She's very nervous & especially not keen on men so she only ate before they arrived & after they'd gone.

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

Glad you've got your floor finished Mandy. If you haven't started to it, the grout cleans much more easily with the hoover and a soft brush rather than starting by washing.
We had the builders in about 20 years ago. They turned up late every morning, left early every day and took 9 months to do the job ! In the end I couldn't give them tea (never mind biscuits) as I only had 2 cups left in the house. The rest were all round the garden where they had abandoned them. I'm not sure I've ever really recovered from that

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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Congrats on getting the floor finished Mandy - tell OH he is on duty for the next lot and you're going into his/her office for the peace and quiet!!!