Bathroom SHOPPING!

Whilst we were away Rob the builder erected the stud wall for the 2nd floor bathroom. Its gonna be a good size bathroom and doesn't impose too much on the two bedrooms.

This has been a very exciting week in terms of spending (although I reckon the Spouse would disagree!) I met the builder on tuesday in Nottingham to purchase all the bathroom fittings. We manaaged in the space of 3 hours to buy all the fittings for the 3 bathrooms and 1 cloakroom. And the builder is not one to hold you back when it comes to shopping.. (if only the Spouse was this good at encouraging me to purchase shoes). I won't bore you with the details of my purchases now as they will hopefully emerge via this blogg in the not too distant future.

The Spouse, the builder and I met up again on thursday to purchase the tiles. The builder took us to the Nottingham Tile Warehouse in Stapleford. These guys are amazing and have some fabulous stock. I would put a link to their website here but don't have one. Am VERY happy with everything we got here and can't wait to see it in situ.

Bang goes the contingency fund.

Grenada was amazing, really recommend the Spice Island Beach Resort to anyone considering a holiday in Grenada, it exceeded all our expectations. The Spouse, Phil, Mill and Mo all managed to get their PADI's. I attempted a dive but only managed 2 metres before hyperventilating and clawing off the instructors face... never again!
The builder called me towards the end of our first week with the bad news that the front wall of the house needed rebuilding from the 1st floor up. The original survey hadn't detected the problem despite the fact that the wall was sagging over 3 inches out from its original position. We may possibly have a case for suing the surveyor, which would at least enable us to recoup the costs of remedial work. But this has also put us back at least 2 weeks. : ((

Wallpaper Stripping Done!

The Spouse and I finally removed the last of the wallpaper this Saturday. The Spouse is overjoyed as he hated this task apparently. Think he's going to hate stripping paint more. Ah well, I'll surprise him with that when we return from our well earned break in Grenada. This is where we are going (sorry!)
Thanks to Clough who did a fabulous job on taming the garden for us, if we had left it at the rate it was growing we would never have found the greenhouse again.

Malcolm the Bright Sparky and his Crew are starting first fix electrics on Wednesday. The roof still hasn't been replaced yet, but we are keeping our fingers crossed it happens whilst we're away. I'm really looking forward to seeing great progress on our return.