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And from other side.

Back wall came down today.

I have a Monty humbucker-sized P90 in my Telecaster. Sounds good to me.

Yeah. You don't really have any control over this though, it seems. I'll work from home Friday morning and see if I can encourage them to do the pipe-in-pipe fix. Apparently despite the pipe being loads smaller it's also smoother, so more gas flows through them.

Yeah, it's just an ugly thing, and a nuisance because meter is currently happily hidden under stairs. Wouldn't be the end of the world - just me having a grumble.

Yeah, it's a complex one; if it didn't leak during work then it may have been fine for 30 years. But no bad thing to have it updated. Unless I end up with a plastic box. Was hoping to get front garden sorted, nice new front wall, fix the pointing, put windows back to Victorian sashes etc. If there's a big plastic box on the wall I'd be less inclined to bother. We'll see. At least nobody exploded!

So we got our gas cut off. Builders need to move all their materials off the front garden so the gas company can come tomorrow to fix. They're going to try pushing a new, plastic pipe down the old steel pipe. But if they can't they say they may have to put one of those ugly white plastic boxes on the front of the house, which I absolutely hate. Sounded like that's their easier option too, so it might happen quite readily.

But on the plus side it was deemed to be corrosion not cock-up, so hopefully no charge. Our builders looked very sheepish but gas company said it was a very, very old pipe and that they can go at any time. Apparently we were in the top 20 gas leaks in London yesterday.

Builders were halfway through laying concrete floor in new extension so half of it looks nice and smooth and half like the surface of the moon. But that's going under insulation, screed, battens and floorboards.

Quite the day.

No amount of exposed brick and ply ceilings is worth this.

Extension update: last week I fell for an invoice scam and lost a load of money. This week - when on way home from work even that I'd left house at 5am for - builder told me they'd caused a gas leak. Emergency guy is there, calling repair team, and we can't go home. And they want to break down next door's front door. This isn't helping neighbourly relations.

Doesn't have to be anything fancy, but does need to be 31.8mm.

Just ridiculous. Looks like a lot of fun.

What's that frame? It's unusual and gorgeous.

No. He had a temporary wooden shed thing, that was almost the size of the house, built right up to the boundary. When I moved in and spoke to him about party wall stuff he said he'd like to have an extension too, so I agreed to build the wall in a way that would let him do that in future. But currently he doesn't live there, the windows are broken, there's no floor and the kitchen extension is separating from the main house enough to fit a fist in, so....

A few people have told me I'll get my money back from the bank. I'm highly skeptical about that.

I can see the argument for it being their fault to some extent. But my problem is that I need this guy to come and install floors in the house. That's unlikely to happen if I start demanding that he takes a £1,500 hit on a job totalling £7k.

Their email was hacked, and I never actually got an email from their real account once - not since December 18th when I first made contact. I was recommended them by a forumenger, found their (legit, it turns out) website, used the contact form to message them... They must have got that first email, deleted it, and started a conversation with me from a false email account they set up. They spent months relaying plans, messages etc back and forth. Quite clever really. All waiting for the day when an invoice was eventually sent, then they slotted a replica one in with their own bank details on.

The flooring guy doesn't seem to get what happened, really.

Love it. Can't wait to buy a Jimmy Page signature double-neck to play... [checks notes] Link Wray on.

And from inside.

We're not weathertight yet, but getting there.

I've just fallen for an invoice scam. Had a flooring company out to do a quote, all good. They emailed the invoice to me and it was intercepted. I got a fake email with a fake invoice, and paid it. Reported it to Monzo and trying to report it to Action Fraud now. I'm never seeing that money again am I?

Simply not possible, sorry.

You've made a mistake there. Simply no way that Start Choppin could have been learned 30 years ago, long before it existed.

No way will a smart speaker ever come into my house. I can just about handle the idea of Hue bulbs.

Those spots seem to take GU10 bulbs, and Hue do these: https://www.philips-hue.com/en-gb/p/hue-white-ambiance-gu10---smart-spotlight----2-pack-/8719514340121A

So we could on/off them with traditional switch, but dim/brighten them with an app. Or go for the multi-coloured ones for Pink Floyd vibes.

Do you just put Hue bulbs in the outdoor lights, or do you need specific ones? We put a Hue light in new bathroom and it's quite fun messing about changing the colour of the LEDs.