Atomac

I have detailed elsewhere the dodgy landscaper employed here at Atomac Towers. I really was in despair when, about a month ago, I sent the final email asking for some sort of movement on the landscaping. By this time we were living in a sand pit since, in one of his manic phases, he had [...]

It seems like we have been renovating forever and like for every step forward we have made that we are back to stage one.

To provide a summary of where we are at:

the bathroom is done
the house is rendered
the patio is up
the roof is sprayed

The garden I will get on to in a moment. At the [...]

I love tradespeople. No, really I do. I am so incredibly obliged to them for allowing me to make use of their skills and services. That they deign to allow me to chase them around and track them down is worthy of beatification. No doubt by this stage you have detected a hint of irony in [...]

The closer you seem to get with these things the further away they seem. We have finally organised ourselves to the point where we are able to start getting tradespeople to give us start dates, but everything gets harder at this point.Can you start on this date? No? Well when are you available? Which option [...]

As our plans to renovate the house begin to take shape I can confirm that renovating is an expensive [...]