After yet another loonngg time we’ve hit the 2 year anniversary of starting the build of Faffing Towers. This is expected to be the final post although I’ll probably add a few more pics to this post. It was hoping to write this when the house was completed but clearly I was dreaming. We are not far away but the blxxdy staircase has proved to me a stumbling block and the house is still short of all the stair and balcony glass balustrading. The stair oak treads were all fitted over xmas and we then measured up for the glass .. all 9 pieces. It then went very quiet so I chased, it then went very, very quiet and finally Steve admitted he’d not ordered the glass and handed the project over to me. Seven months after starting we still have only 2/3rds of a staircase but, on the plus side, it means I’m faffing away and becoming an expert in glass balustrading: regulations, types, widths, hardware, measurements. It’ll be completed in another 2 months, hence the post today.
We’ve waited six months for one bespoke door which finally arrived, is osmo’d up and Gavin revisits on monday to hang it and finish the oak door-frames and skirting. Frankly my memory doesn’t go back three months so I’ve had to look at receipts to see what I’ve done. Ah yes .. I needed more oak flooring and have finished laying 60sqm. Door ironmongery and bits fitted, final lighting (mostly internal and external wall lights), curtain tracks and blinds, bits of paint. The home-cinema system was installed in the snug which much faffing tuning the system and automating it. I built out our dressing room furniture with key-clamp galvanised metal and reclaimed wood from the last house. Lavely, and key-clamp is Lego for adults .. great fun to use.
Once again we’ve had superb spring weather this year and Ang/I moved outdoors in late March to get back into the garden to rescue it after 2 years of neglect. I have also built 40sqm of decking which was an inordinate labour of love, putting in foundations that a digger has compressed for a year while building the house. And of course endless faffing with the home-controls system.

So, two years on and we are 98% completed. Of course its never finished and we will faff endlessly on the garden. The static is still here and Ang’s sister Lynne moves in for a few months. We are dead chuffed with the house and there’s not many areas which we feel we could have done better. Finally a dedication to Goeycat who has lived through all of this and passed away today at 14 .. bless ‘im