Timelines?

On an episode of the English show Grand Designs I was watching the other night, Kevin McCloud stated something along the lines of - when building people want three things, a great design, to meet their timeline and budget, but unfortunately you hardly ever get all three.

So if this is the case what would you give up? I suppose if I really had a choice probably timeline and at this point that is exactly what is happening, so maybe I should be sort of happy about that?

Anyway on a bathroom that was meant to take three to four weeks we have really blown our timeline. We are now nearing end of week four and still no sign of a plasterer. We have been told we may get one this Friday but not sure as yet as they haven't chosen which one they are going with. We are meant to find out tomorrow exactly what is happening, so fingers crossed.

Blogtoberfest day 12 - what happened!

Well here in Australia it is actually Blogtoberfest day 13 but lets pretend I am over the other side of the World somewhere and still in day 12.

I couldn't do my daily post in Australian time yesterday as last night I got home from work and rushed straight to the physio. I have had a bit of back pain recently and the physio certainly helped last night but told me to minimise my time on the computer and rest that evening.

So when I got home instead of going back on the computer I put a heat pack on my back and watched an episode of Grand Designs with Kevin Mcloud. Hubby and I have become a little addicted to this show recently watching an episode almost every night in the past week. In the episode we watched last night the couple didn't finish their build in time for Kevin to show us around the completed house. This is a reasonably common thing, with both build time and budget going well over what was planned. Something to take into account when doing any kind of build work on a house.