Week Seven/Eight

The two polish plasterers have done a fantastic job. It's taken them eight days to plaster the three bedrooms, hall, stairs, landing and dining room. Very quiet and unassuming, both of them were absolutely lovely and professional. Unfortunately I failed to notice that had forgotten to plaster underneath the plug sockets in each of the rooms but, apart from that, I would definitely use them again. Hopefully they will enjoy the cans of Polish lager we gave them as a bonus - they were almost embarassed when I gave it to them. Or maybe it was cheap tasteless beer for all we know.

Mum and Dad spent two days working in the house with Matt and have done a fantastic job. Dad spent hours on his knees finishing the plastering beneath the sockets, not his favorite thing to do. He also attached all the sockets and light fittings to the walls and sorted out the kitched ceiling amongst other things. Mum cleaned, cleaned and cleaned a bit more as well as scrubbing down the skirting board in Chloe's room. Again, the plasterers didn't completely clean up the wet plaster when it fell on the coving and skirting throughout the house so it all needs scrubbing to get rid of it.

Meanwhile, Matt spent two days putting floorboards down in the loft so we can use it as storage space and start moving boxes over. As he's never boarded a loft before he's done a fantastic job. I'm a bit worried that he is spending way too much time working and not enough time resting but I suppose there is so much to do and he wants as much as possible to be done before we move in.