We are drawing towards the end of Lusher's total occupation of Gordon House. We are their last job and the Administrators are pressing them to finish. Many of the workforce have now received their redundancy and even our very good contract manager has finished. That just leaves one carpenter in charge down in Southwold overseeing the installation of the splashback in the kitchen and the electrical contractor and the painters finishing off the outside of the house. And sundry other odd finishing jobs, which we hope will include putting things back where they found them and copius use of the vacuum cleaner. We fear, however, that we will have much cleaning up to do.
However, things are not all doom and gloom! Peter and Rupert have sanded our bedroom floor and it's just about ready for varnishing. It's going to look good. The kitchen is in and looks good, although there are one or two oddities that could have been ironed out if it wasn't all so rushed. It's come totally unfinished, which was not what we expected but luckily our long term decorator, Billy, is prepared to go and stay in Southwold for a few days and prime and paint it for us.
We are waiting for a quote for laying the kitchen floor, and we now have to plan our attack on the decorating, moving from one room to another.
The garden is coming on with plants going in and nearly all the plants left in pots by the previous owner being given a new lease of life in the raised beds. The weather has been glorious for the last few weeks and the garden is a real sun trap. We are begining to think about garden furniture. Even though we are into September, it's been really warm and sunny.
