Typical.
Back to work today after the summer holiday, hoping but not really expecting to find the promised re-decorations completed. It was worse than expected, to the point that it will be difficult to function when the students return next week!
To be fair, the walls are now a nice bright blue, much better than the faded, peeling, 70's style, fake-wood print cladding that was there before, and they have given the ceiling a lick of paint, though it still needs replacing having been patched up with bits of ply when past students put pool cues through it. We also have a full set of working lights, which is exciting. Apparently there was a load of random stuff behind the cladding that needed removing which delayed the process, like cast iron radiator brackets. It is a very old building!
The floor has not been sorted out yet, so we still have ancient, mis-matched, peeling lino tiles in the tea room. The radiators in the classroom are sitting on blocks of wood away from the walls. The computer room has no fitted tables. There is no sink or work surface in the tea room. The windows still lack blinds or curtains. We STILL have no internet, which was promised before Christmas!
These things will get done we are told. Unfortunately the contractors can't do the floor until half term, and many of the other things rely on the floor being in place, such as the sink and fitted tables. The radiators will APPARENTLY be fitted this week. The windows need to be re-measured for blinds, as the cladding was so thick they had to fill in bits around the window frames once it was removed! After that happens, we hope the blinds can also be fitted at half term, though it seems unlikely... No one knows when we will join the information super-highway, but I live in hope.
The problem with all this, is that all the crap useful equipment and paperwork from that area is now stored in the workshops and needs to go back so we can work in the workshops. We don't want to put it ALL back, as it will ALL need to come out again at half term. To give you an idea, it took us nearly a week to get it out last time...
*Sigh* We will find a way and muddle through, as we always do, because what we do is important for our kids. I just wish we didn't have to deal with this sort of stuff too.
To be fair, the walls are now a nice bright blue, much better than the faded, peeling, 70's style, fake-wood print cladding that was there before, and they have given the ceiling a lick of paint, though it still needs replacing having been patched up with bits of ply when past students put pool cues through it. We also have a full set of working lights, which is exciting. Apparently there was a load of random stuff behind the cladding that needed removing which delayed the process, like cast iron radiator brackets. It is a very old building!
The floor has not been sorted out yet, so we still have ancient, mis-matched, peeling lino tiles in the tea room. The radiators in the classroom are sitting on blocks of wood away from the walls. The computer room has no fitted tables. There is no sink or work surface in the tea room. The windows still lack blinds or curtains. We STILL have no internet, which was promised before Christmas!
These things will get done we are told. Unfortunately the contractors can't do the floor until half term, and many of the other things rely on the floor being in place, such as the sink and fitted tables. The radiators will APPARENTLY be fitted this week. The windows need to be re-measured for blinds, as the cladding was so thick they had to fill in bits around the window frames once it was removed! After that happens, we hope the blinds can also be fitted at half term, though it seems unlikely... No one knows when we will join the information super-highway, but I live in hope.
The problem with all this, is that all the
*Sigh* We will find a way and muddle through, as we always do, because what we do is important for our kids. I just wish we didn't have to deal with this sort of stuff too.
posted by Kristy at 6:41 pm
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