They're doing WHAT now?

Oh boy, not sure how to start this one. First you need some background: we are having in-slab heating, the resistive kind. ie. a heating element embedded in the slab which is heated (off-peak) to release heat during the day.

I'll go into it more soon, when the rest of the cables are installed. You see part of it was installed in the slab, but in the bathrooms it goes on top of the slab, under the screed. Anyway, these heating cables need to be wired back to a control panel on the meter board. As this heating system is being provided by a separate company (not through the builder) they need to put this wiring in, independent of Coneheads' electrician. This other company want to do their wiring after Coneheads, so that... well I don't really know why.

So the electrician was there last Thursday. I phoned Eden Comfort on Monday (okay I should have phoned on Friday but I didn't think about it) but Chris said all his electricians were at Kangaroo Island until Thursday, and were all playing golf the following Monday. At this point the supervisor, I'll call him Mr Sandwich, was planning to get the Gyprockers (is that a word?) in on Wednesday but I told him what was happening and he said we could delay them, although on Tuesday he said he could only delay them until Friday. Luckily Chris had managed to schedule the prewiring for Friday, so that was going to work out okay. I decided to take Friday off to put in some more sisalation -- I should be able to cover most of the roof with one more roll.

Thursday afternoon I went over to finish off the speaker wire, because I was worried there were a few too many things I needed to do before the guys got much gyprock up. This is what I found when I got there. There was insulation up in all the walls, and half the gyprock was up, including half the ceilings. Both the garage and alfresco (the two main areas I still wanted to put sisalation in, because there won't be any other insulation there) had the gyprock up. I went to work on Friday.

I was so pissed off. I phoned Chris's electrician first thing in the morning and the first thing he said was that he had another job to get done today and mine would have to wait until Saturday! I laughed. I phoned Mr Sandwich too to ask him why they had already started when he told me they wouldn't start until Friday. He said, "What, have they already started?" I wonder if 'Supervisor' is a euphemism which really means 'Customer Liason'. I asked him to make sure they did not cover any more wires. Anyway, the electrician managed to get there in the morning to see what he could do, but by the time he got there all the gyprock was up. Brilliant.