The New Room - Are We Nearly There Yet?

And the answer is yes, we are nearly there. The electrician came and wired in the controls for the underfloor heating. Sadly the instructions for the options on this are, I am told, difficult to understand. This is what the OH said. Well he may have described them as difficult to get your head round, but either way we have, after several days of having it switched on, on a timer, switched it off. As I said, there is no point in having it on if we are not actually using the room and we're not. Not yet, anyway. So we flicked a switch and hopefully before we push it back the other way again one or other of us, probably him, will have got their head round the intricacies of minimum room temperature versus minimum floor temperature and default settings and why, if you tell the controls that you are away, they carry on switching on the floor regardless.

 

We have moved in some furniture, I have begun the long process that is transferring a lot of my stuff into the purpose built storage and the decorator has been back on several occasion to do the repaint. I think he's finishing today. I am pleased to report that he was fairly sanguine about this. 'Do you remember that old Morecambe and Wise sketch?' he said. 'You know the one where he said he was playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order? It's a bit like that with your walls and the colours isn't it?' Well I can't deny it. I'm also pleased to say that, now the colours are the right way round, I feel totally justified in getting him to come back. It makes a lot of difference. (Well it makes a lot of difference to me).

 

The cats love it and are thrilled that we have spent all this money building them a huge suntrap which they have all to themselves. They are in for such a shock.

 

So we should be ready to take possession and spend loads of time in there now, right? Well no, actually massively wrong as we have the builders in the house doing stuff in the hall, and in due course in the living room, and they are bringing all their stuff in through the new room. So it's not very convenient for using just now.

 

But in a couple of months when all the work is finished and the days are getting longer and, hopefully, warmer, and the quagmire that had developed from what was the top end of the lawn has dried out somewhat, we'll be in and enjoying it and telling each other how great it is. Roll on the day.