Missing Tiles

November Progress

Things are progressing fairly quickly now and we've been working flat out to get the top floor ready for us to move into on the 1st December!

The 2nd floor bathroom is almost complete - with only the architrave left to be decorated. There is a problem with the floor tiles though : ( They were end of line and the builder thought there would be enough, but we ended up being 2 short. The 2 replacements he has supplied are not the same so he's trying to get us some that match - let's hope he does, or there WILL be tears before bedtime!

We now have a tap, with cold running water! We have radiators but no boiler. We have some lights but no fuse board.

October Progress

Rob and Martin have finished all of the plastering on the second floor and its starting to resemble habitable space. Huge thanks to Ian who came over to show Taz how to fit skirting and architrave (the phrase "blind leading the blind" springs to mind!). Also thanks to Fox who has been working with us for the last few weekends. He's started stripping paint off the staircase and now I've discovered that the paint comes off the spindles fairly easily, he'll have plenty to do over the coming weeks.

Other progress; some of the double glazing has been fitted and I have finished painting the 1st and 2nd floor external window sills (although not ideal while all the dust and grit is still flying around). The finish is a little gritty, but had to be done as the scaffold is finally coming down this week.

This week we are expecting to see lots more plastering to the first floor and the tiling in the 2nd floor bathroom to begin. Malcolm is also putting in an appearance to put in some major cables and hopefully do a partial 2nd fix where he can. Hooray lights! This will enable me to do some decorating in the evenings during the week at least.