Marking our 2 month anniversary today and it was an eventful day.
8am and there was a pitter-patter on the rooftop. Could Santa have arrived early? No it was Paul the roofer punching a hole into our well .. roof .. for the bathroom extractor fan. He was a jolly fellow, but came in a white van with a bag full of tools but chose an extension ladder over the chimney. And the presents he left were a vent pipe and a bill. Overall, the work was done surprisingly quickly and the results were good.
Next came another tradesman bearing an extractor fan. Jack put up our inline fan in the loft area taking advantage of the new hole in the rooftop. This one took a bit longer but he was done by lunch time and we got a fan that really sucks, but in a good way. I can't wait to take a hot shower and see the fan in action. It's optimally located in the high point of the sloped ceiling and vents straight up. It's also quiet since all the important parts are located outside of the bathroom.
Onto my work. Today was tiling day, or mostly was. Care has given me an ultimatum of having a working toilet for Christmas Eve for when Wince and T come over. I'm not sure what the consequence is .. but it could involve a much lighter stocking. And in a way, I regressed today, starting off with a working toilet and ending up with a smelly wall decoration (see photo). On the constructive side, I washed down the floors, put down some flex tile adhesive and stuck the Aquapanel underlay down. These were fastened with 1" screws in case there wasn't enough weight and adhesive sticking them down. I can say that it's a pretty solid floor already and the tiles haven't even been put down. Finally, I started measuring up the tiles. Of course the walls are about as true as FIFA's annual report, so I'll need to make some creative cuts to set them right. As the saying goes.. "it's not crooked, it's just extra character".
I'll start cutting and laying down the tile first thing tomorrow and hopefully have the toilet reinstalled by tomorrow night. Just in case Santa needs to use the facilities on his long journey.
And for those desperately awaiting the results of the survey ... it's going to be metro tiles * down to the floor. Thanks to the millions that responded, it was close and came down to one vote.
And for those desperately awaiting the results of the survey ... it's going to be metro tiles * down to the floor. Thanks to the millions that responded, it was close and came down to one vote.
* Results have been independently verified and are within an acceptable margin of error.
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