End of the Siege

About five weeks ago we heard someone on our back balcony / fire escape. That was the first time we saw the painters. They told us they would be painting the outside of the building, and expected that it would take about a week.

...

We put up with these chaps in cherry-pickers and on scaffolding for two weeks (including the weekend) less one day.



By then they had finished the back of the building, but done very little around the front. On the Thursday as they packed up the young chap downstairs who is part of the "body corporate" told us that the next day they would paint the front, and then they would be finished.



But the next day it rained.



And we didn't see them at all for the next two weeks.

And then last weekend we were watching TV and we noticed this (bear in mind we are on the top floor.)



Peter went outside to take a look.



Sure enough - the painters were back at last!

And in a couple more days they finally finished.




Well, it does look rather lovely. Apparently they investigated the layers of paint on the building, and have returned it to its original colours. There are three shades of brown, and the lovely pale yellow on our "penthouse" apartment.