I am off work until next Monday, which is fantastic. No-one else is off, so my fishing trip may take the back burner, as I prefer to go with my mates.
Today I intend to buy an outside tap kit, and perhaps attempt the install. I also went to a cracking Salvage yard in Jellymount Street off the Shore Rd recently, and managed to track down two decorative bricks to match those missing from the decorative row above our bay window. Unfortunately the ones I bought are an inch too long, so I spent an hour trying to cut them with a blunt angle grinder, I want to see if they fit today and mortar them in.
I also have some re-pointing work to do, but don't like ladder work when no-one else is around, yes I am a big ginny. I tracked down a lime based mortar that you can inject using a pump gun, which is the type of easy job I like. The company is called easipoint, they are very helpful. I called them one day and they gave me advice on the correct mortar, the postage of two 25 Kg bags was going to be 32 quid from Lancashire, so they called a customer in Northern Ireland who ships pallets of the stuff from them, I met them in Central Station where they were doing stone work on the new building and they sold me two bags for cost price. That's what I call service.