House Decoration

Not a very exciting blog I'm afraid. Just wanted to share a couple of things about the simple activity of getting your house painted.

We decided it was time to bite the bullet and get the place painted externally by professionals early this year, but we had to wait until this month until the work started.

The first thing that had to be done was trim the undergrowth around the house which mean loosing a large part of the fabulous climbing rose that covered the front of the house in flame orange/red roses year after year - I do hope it grows back!

So far the following has happened

1. The painter electrocuted himself
2. The painter cut the satellite cable
3. The scaffolding lorry couldn't get into the drive and we had to wait 2 days until they found a truck small enough
   
4. The painter broke a window
5. The some of the sofits at the back of the house turn out to be old floorboards and they are rotten and need to be replaced
6. There at least 2 squirrel holes in the sofits and one in the roof
7. The some of the sofits at the front of the house are rotten and need to be replaced
8. The front door is rotten and needs to be replaced
9. We weren't sure if the painting could start because of the drought and hosepipe ban which raised doubt about pressure blasting the old paint off
10. The rain (yes there is an official drought, but since work started it has been raining steadily) means that there are questions about when the painting can start...

And they haven't even started painting yet!

If you want to see some more boring pictures of the house and the views from the scaffolding then go to