What bathroom?

The builders have seriously trashed the house now. Not only has the back wall to the old kitchen disappeared to make room for the new stairs, but as of today the bathroom fittings have been ripped out. So the house is without any plumbing to speak of, just a few bits of heating pipework and the old radiators.

Finally met the eletrician yesterday, making his first visit to Hillside to see what the job entails. As we'd half expected, he's condemned the existing electrics so will be doing a complete rewire. More work than we'd hoped but at least we'll know it's done safely and not bodged like so many things we're finding in the old house.

Meanwhile, Paul the brickie has been carrying on with extending the flat roof at the back of the house. In true eco-style he has reused some of the original bricks from the kitchen wall to build up what will become the wall of the slightly relocated bathroom. He has also started building the cavity wall for the new cloakroom, and has started dismantling the old porch. No wonder it leaked heat, as it was built from single skin concrete blocks with no insulation in sight.

Whilst all this goes on we're juggling the sourcing of an increasing number of things, such as the new front door, stairs, kitchen units, insulation for the kitchen, door ironmongery, wood pellet boiler, solar thermal panels etc.