just completed a stinker of a job in london.
well i'd just finished work locally for the day last saturday when i had a call to do an urgent job in london, so i had a bite to eat and off i went. I got there 10 pm last saturday night, uplifted 125 sq metres of amtico woodstrip vinyl by 7am. spent another hour getting it all in a tidy bin in the pouring rain. then found much of the latex under it had blown. so, i spent the next 12 hours ripping most of the latex up with an electric scraper. another hour getting rid of the crap, and another hour priming it all. by now its 10pm on the sunday, so i thought id shut my eyes for half an hour while the primers drying. so i set the alarm on my phone, had a quick fag and shut my eyes. blow me 10 minutes later the boss phoned me to see how things were going. by the time i got off the phone i had to get back to work. so i went back in and latexed the lot. finished 2am monday and then drove 70 miles home avoiding all the imaginary hazzards along the way. should have had a kip first really cos i must of spent the best part of an hour going in circles trying to get out of london. once i got onto the motorway i was seeing all sorts of weird things that were'nt there. so, i eventually got home at 4am. my intention was to sleep most of monday but the missus very kindly woke me up with a cuppa at 10am and i couldnt get back to sleep after that. felt hungover the rest of the day and then set off to london again at 8pm. got there 9.30, gave 2/3 the floor another coat of latex, spent a couple of hours rubbing the rest down, glued out and started fitting at 3am. eventually got job done by 6.30 pm tuesday, home by 8pm.
fortunately when i lay a floor, it stays down so i wont have the pleasure of going back there again. thank god. from 6am saturday up until 10pm tuesday i managed 6 hours of sleep. oh, and i think i might have had a couple of minutes while i was driving home monday morning.
