In an English country garden

August 30, 2007

Two months ago our back garden was a vast expanse of soil. Well, to be completely honest it is hardly vast (it seems that room sizes aren’t the only thing to be much smaller with new homes) and it isn’t really accurate to refer to it as ‘soil’ (‘two feet of rubble with a sprinkling [...]

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Question time

August 23, 2007

Question 1: You are a decorator employed by a large building company. You visit a customer’s house to repaint a ceiling that was damaged by another tradesman. Do you: (a) Do a perfect job and leave the house in perfect condition (b) Do a poor job but leave the house in perfect condition (c) Do [...]

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20 snags still left after 5 weeks – why?

August 14, 2007

I’ve been fairly complimentary about Bloor Homes and their contractors so far, but perhaps today is the day that I turn. This snagging business is just getting a little annoying now – it has been over 5 weeks since my 255-item snag list was submitted, so why are there still 20 remaining? I could understand [...]

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Superb curtain makers, unreliable gardeners

August 6, 2007

Unless you have struck a particularly good deal when you bought your new home, the chances are that it didn’t come with any curtains and your back garden consisted of a pile of rocks, broken bricks, cigarette butts and a sprinkling of soil. That leaves two pressing goals in life – get some curtains and [...]

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Snagtastic – 94 snags resolved in 6 hours!

July 28, 2007

On Friday at 8 am we had 125 snags remaining, but by 2 pm that list had gone down to 31. It was a truly exhausting day with countless workmen coming in and out, asking what needed to be done, drinking cups of tea, and scratching their crotches. This was all kicked off by a [...]

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