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The work is in progress!
On Friday Marco came and spent the morning installing a new circuit breaker board inside (as there were no spare circuits on the existing 15 year old one) and a pair of 16 Amp external sockets outside. The fridge spent several hours hanging out in the middle of the kitchen on an extension lead :) Marco has said he can come back after the work is done and replace them with normal 13A outdoor sockets, which we don't really have much use for, but you never know, and better than just a hole in the wall.
On Sunday Mike and I took down the tree a day early, and moved all the furniture except the bed from Matthew's room. There's shelves in our room, a chest of drawers in the living room, more shelves in the dining room, and I have a whole big shelf full of just Minecraft Lego in my wardrobe too (which I think is hilarious). Matthew can still sleep in his room for now, but everything else is all over the place. We had a last bath, and moved the toothbrushes to the kitchen.
On Monday a team of 3 from Higgs came to call at 8am sharp. By the end of the day they'd stripped back the peeling paints in Matthew's bedroom (it turns out the plaster was more sound than expected), and re-skimmed the affected walls. They removed the sink, towel rail, shower curtain rail and riser rail from the bathroom, and temporarily stored them in Matthew's room, and then they stripped *all* the remaining tiles from the bathroom, and took them away. There was a lot of banging and hoovering and singing of Elvis songs.
Part way through the morning another team of 2 from ICAB arrived with our bathroom pod, and carefully reversed it onto the drive, set it up level on blocks, plumbed it into the outdoor tap, set it to drain into the sewer via the drain inspection hatch in the back garden, and plugged it into the two power sockets. They also lagged all the pipes, and it has a thermostat on the outside, which runs warm water in smaller pipes along the bigger pipes to keep them from freezing. Inside is a big water heater/tank, an electric fan heater, a loo with macerator, a sink and a shower. We were recommended to just turn the heater on for 20 minutes before we want to take a shower to warm the room up. This was a ridiculously over optimistic estimate in this weather, and I had a lovely warm shower last night, followed by dressing very quickly in a very cold room! I will do some experimentation today to find out how long we realistically need to have the heater on.
No-one is due to come today, but we're expecting another plasterer on Wednesday morning to skim the walls in the bathroom, to make it easier for the tiler to tile.
The whole thing is expected to take a fortnight, and I suspect a few bits of that are just waiting for plaster to dry. But I'm going to be so pleased when it's finally done, and it's a relief to have the work actually happening!
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Hurrah for work in progress!
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Also, I too am amused by your shelf entirely full of minecraft lego (there is so much lego in our house too)
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It still makes me giggle.
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Do remember to turn it off. The bills are probably not insignificant.
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But no, sadly neither hay bales nor space to apply them - we still need to get the bikes past!
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