On Monday Stu and I had a day laying the footing trench blocks on the extension job, before moving on and starting a bathroom refurbishment job on the Tuesday.  Our first job was to strip out the existing bathroom furniture and to take up, and replace, the floor board that had seen better days.  While the floorboards were up, Stu ran in some new pipe work and moved some other pipes about.  On Wednesday we put in a new stud wall, put the bath together and fitted it into position and tiled the floor area.

While Stu plumbed in the bath on Thursday morning, I put the taps and waste onto the sink ready for its installation.  I then plumbed in and fitted the toilet while Stu set about getting a new radiator and towel radiator ready for them to be fitted.  Friday was a fun day all round.  Stu had to plumb in a new shower with a new shower pump unit, which doesn’t sound too bad, but when there is a big large hot water cylinder in the way in an airing cupboard space it makes things that little bit harder.  So while Stu was doing his best contortionist moves, I was fitting a product called Mermaid board (decorative bathroom panels) around the bath.  Come late afternoon I had all the boards fixed into place and Stu was nearing the end of his shower fitting.  He got all the pipe work completed to the back of the shower, then we got the shower unit fitted to the front and tested it for any possible leaks which there wasn’t.  It turned out to be a long day, which we don’t need on a Friday, but we had got everything done we had planned to do for the week.  So we were on track to be all finished off by Tuesday of the following week.