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From: "Davey Tindle" <>
Subject: Re: NONGEN This week on the building site.
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 23:43:52 -0700
References: <LPBBINEBJFGLNDCOKAPMEEGKCIAA.Jane@Henio.Muc.De>


Hi Jane:
This sounds like a "Canadian Experience".....LOL!!!
Good Luck with the rest of it.......remember...."What doesn't harm us only
makes us stronger"...(or something to that effect.......
Cheers,
Davey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Lachs" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 11:29 PM
Subject: NONGEN This week on the building site.


> 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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