The builder came back today to complete work on our new window sills. I took photos yesterday to show some of the work being done. Here’s one of the living room windows after the wooden sill was removed, showing the cracked masonry underneath.
And here’s the same window after the masonry was repaired and the new sill was put in place, but before it was painted. (The perspective is different because I used the wider angle lens on my phone.)
Today the builder filled in some small gaps, then sanded and painted the sills with undercoat. We’re leaving them like that and the final coat will be put on by the painters who will be doing everything in October.
While he was here, I got the builder to drill holes for me to install new coat racks in the bedroom. After he left I screwed them in and they look great. The builder also stuck our apartment number back on the outside of the front door. It had been taken off the old door before it got replaced for fire safety reasons back in March(!) and hadn’t been replaced yet.
Apart from all this I had an online science class and essay writing class to teach, and then this evening three critical thinking classes. In the science class I got the student to dissolve salt, sugar, and epsom salts in three different glasses of water, and we’re going to evaporate them and make crystals. Hopefully by next week’s class we’ll see some good ones.
The other news today is the weather. The forecast yesterday when I looked was for 10-35 mm of rain. But we’ve now had 75 mm in less than 12 hours, with another 12 hours to go before the daily total is recorded at 9am, plus another 7 mm overnight last night. The rain has been truly torrential at times – we had almost 20 mm in one half-hour period. And lots of lightning and very loud thunder. Several times the thunder rattled the windows, it was that close and loud. The forecast for tonight warns of the possibility of damaging winds and heavy hail. And tomorrow we are expecting up to another 35 mm of rain. Some flood warnings have been issued for parts of the state.
It looks like there’ll be a break in the rain for a while, on the rain radar. Hopefully in time for when I take Scully out tonight for her bedtime toilet!