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From: "Jane Lachs" <>
Subject: NONGEN This week on the building site.
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 08:29:49 +0200


Morning folks,

Very NONGEN this but:

thought you might like to know why I'm not up to my usual bright helpful
self :-)

We are having central heating put in :-) well it started with central
heating ! in the mean-time we're having a new bathroom as well !! The story
involves 3 firms: the builders, the plumbers and the heating people.

On Monday 4 of them stood round scratching their heads and saying "Oh dear"
or words to that effect.

Something was blocking the waste-water pipe !

I had to phone the care-taker to come with the key to the apartment below
because they are on holiday then he had to get the man on the first floor to
open the door (he's a funny one !!) then he (the caretaker) had to phone the
manager of the bar below (street level) to come in early ! By the time they
were finished this side of the house all had blocked pipes and they ended up
in the cellar !!

Took them til 15.30 to unblock everything :-))) ROTFL

Tuesday ... the builder's men started filling up the bl**dy great holes
they'd made ...
the gas people said they must take all the old gas pipes away and lay new
ones.

Wenesday .. gas people came to change pipes .. just caught the builders men
filling up the holes ..
"Oh dear" they said .. we need those holes to put the new pipes through !!
can you take the filling out ?????

Electrian (lady) came .. walked round the hall saying things like "Oh dear"
, "Good Lord" and "I've never seen one of those before" !!!

They left us on Wenesday evening without hot water ... My husband showered
with ice cold water .. I didn't !!

Thursday: they started replaceing the tiles on the wall that they'd knocked
out !! left us with no hot water again but that didn't matter as they forgot
to put the bath back anyway !!

The builder came with a couple of new men ... one had to carry the heavy
sacks of cement up-stairs .. they are Turkish I think .. anyway they don't
understand a bl**dy word and instructions are given in sigh language and
pidgeon Bavarian !!!
"You go sack bringen .. you not throw 30 kilo sack on floor .. house shake
.. house fall down"

The other one is supposed to clean up the mess .. he's got a broom and wafts
the dust from one corner to the other. He even found corners that were
dust-less !!

Friday .. they filled the bathroom floor with cement .. then about mid-day
the last worker left ..
no bath .. no hot water ... no cold water except for a drip ??
last worker said "plumer must come .. pipe drip drip drip ... by Monday
water in 2nd floor".

I phoned the builder .. he's not responsible for water !! phoned the plumber
.. he said "put a bucket under it !!" I tried but a bucket didn't fit .. put
a pan under it .. pan filled up very quickly !! phoned plumber again "I
can't sit here all weekend emptying pan, I won't be able to go to bed !!!"
plumber says builder is at fault .. I say "I don't care .. shall I call an
emergency plumber" .. no he says I'll come to-night between 8 and 8.30 !!


He did !!! and left us at 10 with a bath and hot water :-)

This was the third week !! but I can now get into my PC room (I think) and
get to my PC so I'll be able to update web pages etc. !!

Cheers Jane
PS
Two rooms of the flat haven't had electricity for the last two weeks !!

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