The last couple of days have been interesting but, more to the point, very tiring. Bryan and I have been persuaded to help a couple of guys in Montpellier, who have been right royally turned over by a couple of real cowboys, to remodel a kitchen and rectify badly installed new windows. I've always fancied doing some building work and, whilst I have a lot of knowledge, having trained as a quantity surveyor in my youth, I haven't had to tackle much. This is a good way of getting some hands on experience. Rubanne and Clive are very nice people, bought us lunch yesterday, and it's a pleasure to help them. See what we'll do for a plate of food!
Anyway, yesterday a lot of time was spent planning, and today was all about some very dirty work. New cabling needs sinking in the walls so we set about chasing the kitchen walls in preparation for the gaine and electrical work to be installed by somebody with this expertise. God was it dirty. We used Bryan's new wall chaser to cut the grooves prior to hand chiselling the rest out and we both got covered from head to toe in brick dust. Goodness knows how people do this for a living? In fact they usually don't because they just plonk a surface mounted cable duct all over the place which is quite unsightly. No shortcuts with us mes braves.
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