Just love the Bank holidays.
Change to have a lay in and catch up on some sleep.
Chance to do those little jobs on vehicles that have been waiting weeks.
A chance to do those little jobs in the house that have been waiting months.
A chance for the phone ring at 8.15 am with
can you help please, we have had a flood in the main banquetting suite, there's a high profile wedding in there this afternoon oh and Warner Brothers have the whole complex for all of next week. It's about 100 sq/m and we can't get hold of the carpet cleaner who is on our books.
Urgent phonecall to one of the guys with extra work on offer and we're off with 2 machines in the van.
Explained to the manager how this should be done but there was no time for drying both sides, the underlay, dehumidifiers etc. Just do what you can before the wedding.
The carpet was a nice soggie pink which had been laid in 2 foot wide strips. When we arrived the carpet has pulled off the grippers, 4 hours later and it was a good 4 inches from the wall. A carpet fitter duely turned up and after 5 minutes trying realised it was futile hoping it could restretch that much without undoing the joints between sections. He went away and came back 1 hour later with strips of wood to hide the gaps!
4 hours later we'd done all we could reasonably have done although it was explained that with lots of traffic over the carpet there was a good chance that water would still be drawn to the surface. I reckon we must have drawn up some 800L of water.
All in all a good day with a large invoice to be paid, a very happy hotel complex manager and a good chance to get into a place we've been trying to for years.