Antithesis

As we continue our steady crawl towards moving into our house, a key milestone for us is achieving practical completion. This term has two purposes. It’s when our contractor officially hands over the keys and says “okay we’re done, here’s your house”, and when Building Control deem our house safe to inhabit and issue us with a Completion Certificate.

The issue is that the things that Building Control want us to alter to make it ‘safe’ are, well,…ugly.

Of course, safety is important (I know!), but surely the fancy mist system, automatically opening smoke vent, and what seems like hundreds of smoke alarms that we’ve been forced to install are enough? No? After a year spent carefully considering the various spaces, layouts, materials etc, it actually feels a bit rude for them to come in at the final hour and make suggestions that are so…. ugly (I wish there was a better word) and (in my opinion) unnecessary.

Sadly, we can’t tell them where to stick their ‘suggestions’, we just need to make it work. Which means more time problem solving, spending money and waiting to move in. Yay for us. Yay for building control.

At least the sky looked fab today 😎