While the kitchen was being fitted by other contractors at our extension/refurbishment job in Alconbury, Dane and I headed to Sawtry this week to do a bathroom refurbishment for some clients we had previously done some work for.  Our first job was to strip out the existing bathroom suite, take all the old tiles off the wall and put isolating valves on all the water feeds so it made our life easier later in the week when we plumbed everything in.  On Tuesday I altered the pipe work for the new shower and got the sink and bath ready by fitting the wastes and the taps, while Dane erected a new stud wall and prepped the walls ready for tiling.  Unfortunately when I was putting the feet on the bath I made a costly school boy error.  Being used to fitting baths and being in a routine and without thinking I picked up the wrong size screws and fixed the centre support foot to the bath.  Unfortunately with the size of screw which I used (which was only 5mm longer than it should have been) I ended up breaking the enamel on the inside of the bath which were about the size of two 1 pence pieces.  I notified the client of my mistake and had to order a new bath for next day delivery.  The cost of my 10 second mistake, £250.  You win some, you loose some!  Although if Dane hadn’t put me off!!

We laid the majority of the wall tiles on Wednesday and then plumbed in the sink/vanity unit, the back to the wall pan and hidden cistern and the bath on Thursday.  Dane took Friday off to do some drawing work (or so he said!) which left me to run the tile cuts into the bath, grout all the tiles and fit the shower screen and bath panel, just leaving the towel rad to be fitted next week with the last finishing touches to be done.