Things didn’t get off to the best of starts for the week, mainly due to the scaffold, again.  After the poor service the previous week and them not turning up when they said they would, it was the same old result come Monday.  I was told they would be out on Monday to take down the scaffold, come 07.45 after I had phoned them up, that wasn’t going to be the case.  Apparently I was miss-informed about them coming out Monday, although the girl in the office said Monday was free for them and she would high light it in their diary!  So as there was little we could really get on with until the scaffold came down, Stu and I did a few little jobs and then called it a day at lunch.  Tuesday, still no scaffolders.  We decided to clean all the first floor exterior windows as the scaffold was still up, as something to do.  Then out of the blue I received a phone call to say a couple of blokes would be out within the hour to take the scaffold down, at last!  Two men turned up at lunch and made a start on taking down the scaffold.  We were going to be in their way so decided to take another half day.  It’s not all as good as it sounds on the half day front, half day, no pay.

We turned up on site Wednesday and the scaffold was finally down, layed out all over the site ready for collection.  We could now crack on with getting the last of the single storey roof and porch tiles on and the lead dressed so everything was officially water tight for the two roof areas.  We also got the last of the down pipes all fixed into position, well, all but one.  We could have had them all done if I had ordered enough bend sockets!  We put in a temporary fix knowing we could get things finished off next week.

On Thursday and Friday we were back in Yaxley laying some paving slabs for Mr M.  Everything went to plan and everyone was happy with the finish.  They looked really good next to the new fence we put in a week ago and provided the finishing touches to the extension we had built their only a few months back.

And the scaffold?  That was finally picked up Saturday morning.  Maybe I should have charged for storage!