Highlights of the work done on estate

With a fanfare they swept into the street - everyone was delighted! I was ecstatic! A new kitchen and best of all the green snotter coloured bathroom suite was going - and there would be a lovely shiny white one - WITH A SHOWER - be still my beating heart!

The workers were like whirling dervishes - the first few houses were completed before time. The new windows looked fabulous, the chaps cleaned up behind them. Brilliant

Then it started - some residents started parading up and down the street in little more than their underwear - and the workers minds were not on their work. Have you watched the series 'SHARPE' ? well anyway - the army in that were followed about by a bunch of women - camp followers, who provided erm erm - creature comforts shall we say - for the troops. As a people watcher THAT is what it was like on the estate.

Work continued, you know what happened to us if you read the first posting here, and it went on all around us - houses were being finished and at first glance all was hunky dory in them BUT......

On Friday 1st June, the contractors decided to empty out my neighbours loft to work in it - new electrics etc. All very well but they dumped most of it in the massive skip (which is emptied on a Friday late afternoon) this included her wedding dress - bought in advance of her wedding in June 2008!!!!!!!!

Then we started hearing of the mishaps - like some electricians faffing about in a residents home and letting their python go! - Thats still not been found!

An elderly neighbour was closing the window and the whole thing came away in his hands - what if that had been a kid?

Someone else has had to have their kitchen and bathroom floors replaced several times as they were flooded . Taps were fitted on the wrong way - hot where cold was etc. Dangerous when you have small children and they know that the blue top means cold! Baths in several houses were taking up to 20 minutes to fill as the water pressure was all wrong. Oh yes - and my favourite - a bath panel stick on with the tenants own toothpaste!

In the last couple of weeks when residents have been getting their annual gas central heating service it has been discovered that the extractor fans fitted in the kitchen are too near the boiler - and are therefore not really safe! Oh yes - and a lot of water tanks are now being moved into the loft to try and resolve the low water pressure.

The list goes on!