Start Of A Thunder Storm

And so, another day and another encounter with skilled German craftsmen.

Regular visitors will know that my opinion of said Gentlemen is not high. And today the latest highly trained Deppen arrived to fit a new cupola in the common stair. This meant that they needed to come through our flat to access the roof from our terrace.

That sounds simple doesn't it?

Except it wasn't.

We agreed to let them access the roof from our flat because otherwise we'd have to have had scaffolding put up in the common stair and that would have cost about 3000 Euro (provided, of course, that they managed to build it without destroying the stair).

And so, deprived of the opportunity of wrecking the stair, they set about wrecking our flat.

To start with, they couldn't get the cupola up the stairs in our flat. It was very obviously too big.

But our geniuses decided that battering it off the walls, the wooden staircase and our wooden floor would make the flat see sense and let them carry it up.

The flat refused to agree.

So then they took the old cupola off the roof and tried to raise it through the hole.

It was too large.

So they sawed a bit off one side and tried again.

It was still too big.

So they sawed a bit off the other side.

Guess what? It was still too big...

G then woke our lovely neighbour B up and asked if they could take the cupola through his flat and on to his balcony and then work it up on to our terrace and from there on to the roof.

5 minutes later they were working on the roof.

Just after they finished - without cleaning up after themselves - it started to rain.

That meant that the electrician, who had been waiting for them to finish, couldn't start. He's coming back tomorrow.

I can't wait.

Oh yes and I forgot, they also managed to knacker the automatic-door-closing-thingy. And made it worse by trying to repair it.

My expectations were low. I think I'll just bury them.

And an E-Mail has been sent to the company who are supposed to maintain our building asking that someone is sent to repair the damage at their expense.

On second thoughts, I'll just burn my expectations.