It will be finished in 2007…

I hope it will anyway. After we said we will not come to Kisbajom (and pay of course) around Xmas the contractor stopt building for a while. Govert will go the 22nd of January to check what has been finished and what will be paid. We expect the work on the studio will be finished by then.

The work on the barn will maybe take some more time. It turned out the big doors which were made, were not the correct size. Thiscame out of miscommunication between the carpenter and the contractor. Both told us to solve it, but when? It’s often freezing now in Hungary so the developments will go slow.

Anyway; the plumber is, dispite everything, still making progress. The water was frozen once, but it does not seems to be a big problem. The floor heating is getting installed now, but connecting to the gas heater will take some more time. In Hungary installing gas stuff is subject to special rules and can only be done by specialists. The gas man is quite an amature. He improvises all the time without us knowing his choices. Now he has installed some tubes at the wrong place and he will have to do it again next week.

Well, we will keep you posted. Just return to this blog at the end of January. For now; all best wishes for 2007 and maybe we will meet in Kisbajom!

So much has been finished suddenly

Wow! It goes fast lately. The barnside is done completely by now and the studio will get insolated this week. And the windows and doors are expected very soon as well. It went so fast that we discovered some small problems, like the slightly smaller showers! Now the shower-thing we bought cannot fit…

Lots of details still has to be made. Where will the water tubes go? And the heating will be installed. The floor can only be finished after all these things are made. Also the electrician will start to work now. He talks a lot so the atmosphere at work will be even better!

Soon more…

The roof has finished

As you can see in the photo album the roof has been worked on very nicely. Hajni wanted to make more photos of the workers, but I had to restrain her.

By the time this post is written the tiles are on the roof as well and the barn is all saved for the next 30 years. Now work needs to start on the inside… still a lot to do!

Hajni goes to Hungary again coming week and Govert follows her by car on Friday. They will have some heavy talks ahead with the contractor (he doesn’t keep his own time planning). And they will bring a hole lot of money to pay the contractor, the plumber, the carpenter, the gaz man and the talkative electrician.

Finally work has started on the roof of the barn!

We waited for a long time, but at last the contractor started his work at the barn last week (at 21st of September). We allready saw the first low-res pictures of work on the roof structure and the news beams… ai ai ai, the contractor had to replace more wood then expected.

The barn will get a small living space in it very soon. The contractor expects to be finished before Christmas. This living space will be the base camp for all further renovations. The contractor will make a dormitory for 10-12 people next to the living space. We will try to do further renovations on the house: slower, without a contractor for everything, and for less money.

For the Dutch readers; the contracter is the same Jaap Scholten is writing about in this NRC columns. So we could know what to expect.

Donderdag 3 augustus

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