A New Clock

As the original date for project completion has been and gone there seems little point in keeping the project clock up doing nothing.

I have found a new gadget that is counting up from completion to completion. I hope it doesn't get too high.

This Week

There is much happening this week and whilst we won't be finished by Friday, as the project clock suggests, we should be much closer to knowing how close to completing by the end of the month we will be.

Without trying to put the kibosh on things, by the end of the week we should have a bathroom installed (although not working), a boiler installed and commissioned, a kitchen delivered, tiling completed in the bathroom, all plastering finished throughout (except the kitchen), the under stairs cupboard finished, the garden clearance completed, the cracked brickwork repaired (subject to weather) and a start on the downstairs decorating.

I probably shouldn't have said all of that. They will probably all walk off site now.

11 Days to Go

According to the project clock we have 11 days to go to finish this project. That isn't going to happen and the end of the month is more likely but will still be tight.

The terms of the insurance policy state that the house must be visited once every seven days so as nobody has been working I paid one visit over the holidays.

As we start the New Year – this is where we are.

• The bedrooms are largely finished bar final painting and second fix plumbing and electrics. They look really good and more work will be done this week.
• The bathroom needs to be installed and the new soil pipe run. This is the largest job outstanding upstairs.
  
• Stairs – there is some repair work to be done to the stairs.
  
• All thermaboard need to be applied downstairs and then plastered. This is will start this week as the materials will be delivered this afternoon.
• The kitchen needs to be installed.
• The cloakroom needs to be installed.
• The new boiler needs to be installed and commissioned.
• The under stairs cupboard floor needs to be re-laid.
• Second fix plumbing and electrics need to be completed.
• The garden needs some more work.
• The outside brickwork needs to be tidied up and painted.

That's about it although I am sure I have forgotten something.

I still hope to have the house back on the market by the end of the month.

The clock is running ..........

The other thing that I agreed with the builder was a target completion date. This is set at Friday 16th January 2009. There are no penalties for being late (except a delay getting to the next job) and no bonuses for being early but we both have signed up to it.

I have set up a project clock on the right hand side of the screen showing the time from the moment we owned the house to the building work being finished. "Completion to Completion"! It works out at three months (give or take) in total.