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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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105 Moreover when it came to the plumbing and heating systems, to the general overseeing, and now to the reputtying of the windows later, we rather felt that we had been let down sort of flatly. The windows did have to be scraped and done over the following year because the putty which had been used did not contain the proper ingredients for steal-sashes and the oil kept weeping throughout the year. So, one might wonder - why an architect? It might apparently be more simple merely to move the workmen themselves, then it would be to get the architect moved to move the workmen. In the end the responsibility became wholly ours, for had it not been shunted off of other shoulders onto ours where it decidedly was not supposed to repose. So the wear and the tear of getting a home established was perhaps greater than it needed to have been or should have been under better circumstances. In the summer the ground was broken for the new domain. The walls began to spring up and grew and grew. All through the stages of construction the building process involved much supervision, many extra stops, a constant alertness to what was transpiring, a certain adjustment of plans and a continued thrust of decisions to be made -- in the popular venacular, a steady round of being "on the job." Finally the walls were up, the roof on, the windows in, the plastering
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105 Moreover when it came to the plumbing and heating systems, to the general overseeing, and now to the reputtying of the windows later, we rather felt that we had been let down sort of flatly. The windows did have to be scraped and done over the following year because the putty which had been used did not contain the proper ingredients for steal-sashes and the oil kept weeping throughout the year. So, one might wonder - why an architect? It might apparently be more simple merely to move the workmen themselves, then it would be to get the architect moved to move the workmen. In the end the responsibility became wholly ours, for had it not been shunted off of other shoulders onto ours where it decidedly was not supposed to repose. So the wear and the tear of getting a home established was perhaps greater than it needed to have been or should have been under better circumstances. In the summer the ground was broken for the new domain. The walls began to spring up and grew and grew. All through the stages of construction the building process involved much supervision, many extra stops, a constant alertness to what was transpiring, a certain adjustment of plans and a continued thrust of decisions to be made -- in the popular venacular, a steady round of being "on the job." Finally the walls were up, the roof on, the windows in, the plastering
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