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A home visit to The Hayling View after a deep night’s sleep and waking to a cool autumn morning appreciating the peace and beauty of the place. A good journey back, time on my accounts and with Diana and Daniel, who was also home.
The Hayling View house and gardens were fine but I had to look at the central heating which was not working. I then made and lit a fire to keep at least the lounge warm.
I fell asleep straight away after the strain of my late night and awoke to sunshine on a cool autumn's morning. Quite quickly washed, shaved and dressed after breakfast and then ready to leave for home. As I stood on the Heronshaw stairs I could not help appreciating the peace and beauty of the Norfolk Sunday morning as geese and a Heron wheeled overhead and a squirrel bounded up the road. The journey was good, with a minimum of traffic and I was soon home. I spent the day relaxing, reading the mail and local newspapers and then working on my financial accounts and bills that had to be paid.
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A long day starting with welcoming the glazier from Stalham Joinery and ending after midnight having seen away the electrician who had completed the wiring.
I had now given two coats of stain to the three external doors which needed to secure the building otherwise the electricity board will not connect the meter and power
A full day's work, starting before 8.00am as I welcomed the glazier from Stalham Joinery and ending after midnight having seen away the electrician who had completed the wiring. In between times, I had trimmed the new compartment window and given a total of two coats of stain to the three external doors. They will need fitting on Monday to secure the building otherwise the electricity board will not connect the meter and power. I also stained the upper floor rafters which I have decided to leave exposed after the ceiling is fitted and the effect was quite stunning. My plan is now to leave early in the morning for Paxton but I may sleep in for a while if I am too tired.
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Coping with differences about insulating the ceiling, but I needed it done for Ray to wire the upstairs lights before I left to deposit forms at Eastern Electricity and get more materials from B & Q and Eyre Electrical.
I thus missed the Page engineer installing the drainage and the building inspector but the Stalham Joinery glazier had arrived with the windows too.
Another chillier day and a brave start early with Steve and Ray Lond-Caulk who worked with us for his third day. I got Dave and Steve working on the upstairs ceiling first, though Dave was bitching all the time about the fibre-glass insulation and made a bit of a fuss about me deciding on the priorities for the day. Once they had done, Ray could wire the upstairs lights and then follow them downstairs to complete those in the hall once they had lined the central section. I had to go to Eastern Electricity in Norwich by 11.00am to deposit two forms for supply and connection and then dropped off at B & Q and then Eyre Electrical for more components before coming back to Jewsons to chase even more supplies.
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Tackling the dormers and fitting the gutters along the river front before the scaffolding was completely removed as we made ready for Page's to commission the sewage pump, and Stalham Joinery to come and glaze the windows. Being tired and cold with the chillier weather - I went with Steve to The Bridge Restaurant for our evening meal. The weather is now very autumnal, and the holiday season seems to have finished as early as it started late.
Steve was doing his early-morning session again this morning; wiring up more sockets before I was up and about. The scaffolders were due to come today to take the scaffold down and I had a hectic time trying to get certain of the work done that had to be done first. I persuaded the workmen to tackle the dormers and then to fit the sewage tank pump and dig the trench and I was up on the scaffold myself, fitting the gutters along the river front. Steve had also assembled the wall unit that was due to house the consumer units, and this meant that I could lay out the area for the wiring to be done which was the first priority. In all, a scrappy and inefficient day but at least we did some of the more difficult jobs to give plain sailing for the next few days.
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