The water company came to make an estimate for installing the meter and told us we would have to have another pipe laid down to the cottage. Last December, while waiting for the permis de construire, our builders laid the road and at the same time laid the pipework for the water mains. However, the water company are not prepared to accept someone else installing the pipe that will be feeding into the meter. So our builders have to dig a fresh ditch and the company will lay the water pipe. So delay and more cost.
Then this morning the electricity company contractors arrived to connect the electricity and left without doing anything. Our builders (thinking they were doing what the electricity company wanted) dug a ditch up from the cottage to the electricity post and laid the heavy duty cable. But the post is a few steps away from the road and apparently the meter has to be at the side of the road (so the meter reader does not get his feet muddy). We now have a red line sprayed on the ground to show where a new ditch has to be dug to bring the cable from the post to the roadside, where the meter will stand. Yet more delay and cost.
And then there is the saga of the three upstairs doors. Ordered ten days ago from Castorama and collected by Tod earlier this week, they are the wrong way round. Our (or rather my) fault. New French doors come with their frames and hinges and holes for handles and locks already cut. So you have to know whether you are getting a left-hand door or a right-hand door. I thought I understood and persuaded Tod that we wanted a "poussant droite" because poussant means "pushing" and we want doors that you push open from the right to the left. But apparently we want "poussant gauche" doors that open to the left from the right. AAARGH. So another fifty minute round trip today to Agen of some hundred kilometers.
Mind you, we had a good lunch in the Carrefour cafeteria and we did find some attractive lights in Castorama.
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