OMG What a nightmare!!! The men are here to fit an air-conditioner unit, but it’s all gone desperately wrong!! I have always hated a/c, but this is a very hot house, attached on what would have been the cooler side, with no two windows in a straight line, so airflow is not what you would call good!!
Also, I have 4 dogs and 2 cats, and summers in Italy are getting hotter. When it’s still 30C outside at 3 o’clock in the morning it’s almost impossible to cool the house down. My house has stone walls almost 2 foot thick, and these are generally very good at protecting from both cold and heat… BUT… once the sun has beaten down on them for several weeks they actually turn into radiators – and that’s really bad news!!!
Hence the dreaded a/c unit. But because of local regulations, (a department known as the Belle Arte), you cannot have those great big ugly a/c boxes on walls facing out onto the street. And guess what? All my bedrooms face out into the street. So, the only solution is to put it on the wall above the lower garden… then it must pass through my bathroom at head height, and into the first bedroom, (the dogs’ bedroom actually). BUT… since my house is set into the hillside (like so many round here in rural Tuscany), I have to come up a flight of stairs from the hall entrance from the road. Sooo… the guys need to be working at a height of 6 or 7 metres above ground… and guess what? They have decided they need a scaffold – not in the estimate! The guys themselves are really nice and helpful – but I was really fed up with their boss who did the helpful – but I was really fed up with their boss who did the estimate. I shouted at him down the phone and he said I had to pay for the scaffold. I said I wouldn’t, and that he could tell his guys to stop work, take everything away and I wouldn’t bother with the a/c… and I wouldn’t pay him a penny!!! He of course immediately phoned his men and told them to find a way. I felt a bit sorry for them – as Marco said, ‘we are stuck in the middle’. As is generally the way, a resolution has been found… they have done most of the work…
I need to get a bloke in to cut back some of the foliage at the base of the wall where they need to put their long ladders. For now, they have gone off for lunch and will be back sometime next week to finish the job. But isn’t it just sod’s law, that having had a period of relatively fresh cool weather and even some huge thunderstorms, today is the start of the next bout of really hot weather.
This time though, I think the nights will They say they will be back next week… but then again, around here pretty much everything closes down for the first two weeks of August as everyone takes their annual holiday; for just about anything you have to wait for ‘dopo Feragosto’ – ie after the 15th August…. So, fingers crossed…
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