Of Hallways And Windows - An Update

The scaffolding is gone! YAY! We've even had a lot of rain since and the hallway has stayed dry so far. It's amazing!

You know you've had scaffolding up for a long time when the pizza delivery guy congratulates you on getting rid of it. Haha!

Anyway, they still need to finish the decorating down there, and there was an issue where the guys who removed the scaffolding left the decorating equipment quite literally everywhere - including right in front of our door and that of one of the other people who live in the building - so we had to get the landlords to send someone to clean it up. We got them to do it partially because we were annoyed the guys they sent had left it like that, and partially because we actually couldn't even open our door safely in order to get out there to do it ourselves anyhow. The landlords were as annoyed as we were that the mess had been left though, and had someone back to clean it up pretty quickly. Luckily, our neighbour was out at the time, and it was cleaned up before she got back, because there's no way she'd have managed to get herself and the kids safely inside with how things were left (she has a five and a half year old and a baby of around three months old).

Anyway, we're crossing our fingers this is the end of the hallway saga, and they can just finish the decorating and be done with it. Actually, I'm personally crossing more than just my fingers, since I really, really, REALLY don't want the scaffolding back!

In other news: the windows are fixed!

Well, sort of.

The landlords agree that what they really need to do is replace them, but enough work has been done so that we can open and close them whenever we want - properly and safely - and when we close them to keep the bad weather out, it actually does stay outside where it belongs. It's only been a few weeks, and we're already seeing a very nice decrease in the cost of our heating bill, despite the fact it's been chilly and stormy a lot of the past month. We wish they'd actually done the full replacement, since that would have been better. But what they've done is a great improvement, so we're glad of it. The plan is for the actual replacement to happen some time next year - probably in late Spring, or in the Summer. We'll see what actually ends up happening though. In the meantime, at least this Winter promises to be a warmer one in our place than last Winter was.