Wow, the win­dows are all fin­ished now (well nearly). The first worker to arrive this morn­ing was the guy to do the lead water­proof­ing, who arrived before 8am. He did an excel­lent job, and the lead flash­ing looks really nice. I won­der whether he is still classed as a plumber?

Plumber (n.) One who works in lead; esp., one who fur­nishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other appar­atus for the con­vey­ance of water, gas, or drain­age in build­ings.
from Brainy Dic­tion­ary

The win­dow fit­ters fin­ished off the bay win­dow today includ­ing all fit­ting all the trim and mak­ing good round the out­side of the frame. The only thing left to do now is the plas­ter­ing inside and the ren­der­ing out­side.
Unfor­tu­nately the builder can­not come back to com­plete that until Tues­day, which is NOT what we were told when book­ing the appoint­ment for the fit­ting. In fact we had to wait until this time (it should have been the end of May ori­gin­ally) in order to fit in with the builder!
We took some pic­tures before, dur­ing, and after the work. I’ll post them in the gal­lery when I get a chance.

The guys were here at eight o’ clock this morn­ing, and got stuck in straight away. Jan and Jamie went out early on. We knew that the fit­ters would soon be work­ing in the kit­chen leav­ing us prac­tic­ally nowhere to sit out of the way. So they decided to do some shop­ping. I went into the cel­lar and worked on WordPress.
They’ve done really well today. The builder got the base of the bay win­dow built, both inner and outer bricks, internal floor, and internal wall. The fit­ters have now got all the win­dows in place, includ­ing the bay win­dow! They still need to fin­ish a little for the upstairs win­dow at the front, and a lot to do on the bay win­dow. But still fant­astic pro­gress. Someone is com­ing tomor­row to fit the lead on top of the new bay (to water­proof it).
My Mum is com­ing tomor­row as she is hav­ing her flat rewired, so she is com­ing to ours to keep out of the way! I sup­pose it will be quieter here now they’ve got most of the work done, but we weren’t expect­ing that, and I wasn’t sure just how much peace she would get.
I’ve got to go into the office tomor­row for a meet­ing, that should be interesting.

We got up bright and early this morn­ing ready for the work­men com­ing to start fit­ting the new win­dows. Unfor­tu­nately we received a phone call just before 8am to say that they would be delayed as they were “still wait­ing some of [our] frames”, and they wouldn’t be arriv­ing until around lunch­time. Hmmm, not a good start.
Any­way, the builder turned up early, meas­ured up, then dis­ap­peared for an hour (he told me he would do this). In the end the win­dow crew turned up by 11 and got to work.
So far the builder has removed the old brick­work in the bay, and laid the foot­ings for the new brick­work. The Win­dow crew have com­pletely fit­ted three win­dows. A pretty good first day really.