As a little tip to anyone employing a builder to do an extension for them, here's what we expect (hope for) on the day we start:
1) All your cars parked well out of the way, preferably not in the driveway.
2) Work area totally clear. How often have I turned up to start a job and the work area is covered in kids bikes, garden furniture, barbeque, hundreds of pot plants, washing line full of clothes, wheelie bins, that shed you promised would be gone, rabbit hutch etc etc.....
3) Please be out of bed and able to answer the front door!
4) Please have someone available to advise us where we can get water and power.
5) Don't invite relatives to stay in the new bedrooms we are building you - telling us they're coming in three weeks......
I'll add more as I think of them