13.03.07 Woodwork

Today Rob has been making the toilet and sink unit in oak. As usual, he's done a wonderful job. Tomorrow he will make a corner unit also in oak.
As usual, I have been grouting this evening. I'm not sure why I used the grater for the cheese tonight when I could have just used my fingers! DIY is not glamorous!
We had a hole in the bath but we've fixed it with some adhesive. We will have to buy a new bath eventually and now Rob has a good excuse to buy one with water jets. The money is finally running out so we aren't able to buy one now.

11.03.07 The Bathroom

Today Rob installed the bath. Today I grouted, as usual! Rob's Dad has started to grout the floor. We have the light for the bathroom which was on the cooker in the previous pictures.

Lindsay and Jonathan came today and they said what I'd already thought about the Aqua paint. It doesn't go with the tiles. So I shall paint the walls cream instead.

Once this room is finished then we can start to clean the whole house up and move in! Yes really, we can move in!

10.03.07 Our Home!

Just a few bits which are beginning to turn our house into a home. We got the cooker installed and we now have curtains in the front room. They are slightly too long so they will be cut off and the excess used to make a couple of cushions for the settees.

10.03.07 The Electrics

Marcus came and completed the second fitting for the electrics. You can see the consumer unit which is situated in the kitchen and the wiring in the cellar from the main consumer unit which is also in the cellar. This means that we can now take out all the old plug sockets and fill them. Thankfully, there was only one plug socket in each room!

09.03.07 The En Suite

Is now finished! The shower no longer leaks so we can now have the carpet put down in both bedrooms.

The skirting boards have been fitted and the macerator has been boxed in.

09.03.07 The Bathroom

Rob finished tiling the bathroom. I think it looks lovely. It will look even better when it's been grouted.

Mac has been undercoating the ceiling in the shower room and the far wall with the radiator on it and has done a wonderful job. We were slightly worried that it would be too bumpy but he's been busy sanding it down so that it is smooth.

05.03.07 The Bathroom

Rob has put down all the floor boards in the bathroom and has laid the underfloor heating. He went off to Wickes tonight to buy some flexible floor tile adhesive. Tomorrow all the floor tiles will have been laid.

03.03.07 The Bathroom

I've been busy grouting. I no longer have skin on any of my right hand fingers. Thankully, our carpet fitter Phil, has given me top tips for grouting......if only he had told me weeks ago! The tips don't involve loosing any skin, which I'm pleased to hear about! It means that you won't see any of the grout on the tiles like you do on these pictures. Well that's the plan!

The exciting news is that we plan on moving into the house in 4 weeks time.

02.03.07 The Bathroom

Rob has worked on the house this week and he has done wonderful tiling. He cheated with the tiles in the shower area but that secret remains between us. Thankfully, Rob got the light up between the wall on one of the other wires. All lights have now been installed. Since he installed the dimmer switch when it's dark the PIR lights look faboulous. I can imagine bathing with glasses of champagne!

25.02.07 The Bathroom

Rob has been busy doing more good tiling. He's been very neat and careful apparantly!

However, as usual we always decide to do tricky jobs at the end of the day and today was no exception!

If you look at the middle tile you will see a light. You can never have too many! Behind the tiles and the plasterboard was a wire so that we could pull up the light cable. However, the light didn't go up with the wire and so we've now had to go under the bath and hope that one of the other 2 lights on the other central tiles will be able to pull up the middle light wire. It's more complicated than you could ever imagine!

25.02.07 The En Suite

The En suite is now all painted and I've started to clean the tiles up. It just needs the skirting boards and then it's finished.

24.02.07 The En Suite

I have grouted the en suite today. I type this message with most of my index and middle finger's skin missing. Grouting can be quite painful at times! Tomorrow, I should be able to give the tiles a really good clean down and finish painting the walls. Once I've done this then the whole of the upstairs is finished! It can now be carpeted.

This means that the bottom floor is done and that the top floor is done. The middle floor is the only floor left.

We aren't doing anything with the kitchen. We need to save about 10k to complete the house converting the outbuildings into a kitchen, utility room and downstairs toilet. But we have to wait 2-3 years for this to happen.

But, we are nearly into the moving in stage! Woo Hoo!

24.02.07 The Bathroom

Rob has been busy tiling the bathroom today. We wanted these tiles a couple of months ago but since then they have changed the colour. It's a bit darker than I expected. There are 10 x 10 cm tiles which match but since changing the colour they don't match. We will have to go and change them. Lets hope that they can find a colour to match them. There are also edging tiles which thankfully still match.

17.02.07 The Bathroom

Rob has fitted the shower into the bathroom. The bathroom can now be tiled.

Rob has also made a switch so that the bathroom lights can be dimmed.

17.02.07 The En Suite

I've been busy tiling again and the shower area is now completed. I think it looks lovely.

The sink will look like it's suspended. There is a piece of wood underneath it at present so that the tiles don't down slide down it. It will be removed once they are stuck. Tomorrow I shall finish the bottom bits of tiling now that Rob has cut the pipes down for the sink.

16.02.07 The Kitchen

As we all know, you can never have too many lights! So as Rob sat in the kitchen the other day and stated that it was quite dark there was only 1 answer.....to get more lights!

So thanks to B&Q we got more lights. £9.99 each, what a bargain!

16.02.07 The En Suite

We now have a shower cubicle! We will never use this as it will be a nightmare to clean!! Rob has put wood into the cubicle to stop any water getting behind it. He's siliconed everywhere! to stop leaks. It's my job tomorrow to tile it. But thankfully, I shall be doing up the wall tiling and not down the wall tiling, which will be a breeze!

16.02.07 The En Suite

I've started tiling. I started tiling down the wall which is practically impossible. But I managed with the help of wooden blocks and spacers and anything else I could get my hands on to hold the tiles at the bottom. Most of the bottom tiles have not been attached yet as the water pipes need cutting off to make them smaller.

The metal brackets that Rob made at work last week will hold a piece of wood so that the sink will sit on it. The sink should look like it's floating then.

15.02.07 The Bathroom

The ceiling in the bathroom has now been painted. It took 4 coats of silk emulsion. Well, actually, it was part silk, part matt because somebody picked up the wrong container as they looked identical and mixed the 2 together, oops! But it is more silk than matt.

12.02.07 The Bathroom

Well, Rob could never resist lights, so we have some more! These also work on the PIR. However, I hear that Rob has ordered a dimmer for this room as well.

Rob has also added dimmer switches in the kitchen.

In fact he's been so excited about his dimmer switches, I suspect that most of Bawtry will have them by this time next year!