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Front Bedroom Part 12
Today Sunshine installed the new raditor in the front bedroom while I gave it a last coat of paint ... and we are now DONE in there! No more DIY - just the nice stuff of "decorating" ie "beautifying" :)
Bathroom Part 6
And after faffing with a broken shower for a few weeks in which we couldn't change the temperature - we bit the bullet and bought a new more expensive one and Sunshine installed it - its LUSH! Mmmmm.... nice whooshy showers now - with decent temperature control!
***** photo of finished bathroom to go here eventually *****
Just realised that we have no pictures of the finished bathroom. Second coat of paint has gone on and everything mostly cleaned up. Still a few small bits to touch up - and the skirting board by the shower to re-make - but we are done otherwise. Phew! next .... the front lounge...
Oops ... seemed to have got a bit lax in photo-taking/documenting. Unfortunately no pics of tiling ... but as you can see - tilling done, including grouting and sealing. Shower door back on. We've also started cleaning off bits of chipping paint from the walls. And plastering bits and bobs including re-building that bit of wall that was to the left of the shower door.
First coat of white paint going on ... whoopee! Home stretch now ...
*I'd also like to note that although it appears that I've not been doing anywork (Sunshine is always in the pictures), I've been doing loads too - especially cleaning and painting. It just so happens that photo-taking seems to have become my responsibility.
The correct boards to use behind powershowers - Aquapanel Cementboard. We did the bottom, then decided two days later that we were going to go another level up on the back wall (photo on left is 2 days ago).
Sunshine being sad that now there appears to be TWO walls of tiles that need replacing .... there's black mould growing up the back of the tiles! They used the wrong kind of plasterboard on the back and its soaking ... poo ... We later also realised that they had plumbed the hot/cold pipes into the shower the wrong way round ...
So the shower has been leaking for over 3 years. The old landlord's handyman has tried fixing it intermitently - but the problem has persisted. You can see how its rotted away the skirting board to the bottom left of the shower door. After some consulting with Sunshine's dad, we decided the problem was quite likely to be the door itself. So we set about taking it off. Yes - Mr handyman hadn't grouted behind the door - and had sealed bits that were meant to be left as channels for water flow.
On further investigation though - we find that there is masses of damp behind some of the tiles ... hmmm ... this is going to be a bigger job than we anticipated.
Today Sunshine installed the new raditor in the front bedroom while I gave it a last coat of paint ... and we are now DONE in there! No more DIY - just the nice stuff of "decorating" ie "beautifying" :)
And after faffing with a broken shower for a few weeks in which we couldn't change the temperature - we bit the bullet and bought a new more expensive one and Sunshine installed it - its LUSH! Mmmmm.... nice whooshy showers now - with decent temperature control!
I was shown how to mask off the wood from the carpet neatly, then Kev proceeded to paint the skirting boards at super-fast speed.
This mess of wires really needed to get sorted - Sunshine was going to do it, but decided that Kev would be far better and faster at it ...
And while he was in the hall, he finished off papering the bulk of the left over walls and ceilings.
Unfortunately, even with all this moving forward, we had one room where things went backward ... there were two spots in the bathroom where the paint was not sticking properly. Kev pulled it all back and the reality is those two bits of plaster are not drying. He thinks he's dealt with one issue but, but we still need to look into what the issue is by the window. Anyways, it just means our lovely white bathroom has two blotchy patches again ... it needs to dry out before we can refill and re-paint.
Oops ... seemed to have got a bit lax in photo-taking/documenting. Unfortunately no pics of tiling ... but as you can see - tilling done, including grouting and sealing. Shower door back on. We've also started cleaning off bits of chipping paint from the walls. And plastering bits and bobs including re-building that bit of wall that was to the left of the shower door.
First coat of white paint going on ... whoopee! Home stretch now ...
The correct boards to use behind powershowers - Aquapanel Cementboard. We did the bottom, then decided two days later that we were going to go another level up on the back wall (photo on left is 2 days ago).
Sunshine being sad that now there appears to be TWO walls of tiles that need replacing .... there's black mould growing up the back of the tiles! They used the wrong kind of plasterboard on the back and its soaking ... poo ... We later also realised that they had plumbed the hot/cold pipes into the shower the wrong way round ...
So the shower has been leaking for over 3 years. The old landlord's handyman has tried fixing it intermitently - but the problem has persisted. You can see how its rotted away the skirting board to the bottom left of the shower door. After some consulting with Sunshine's dad, we decided the problem was quite likely to be the door itself. So we set about taking it off. Yes - Mr handyman hadn't grouted behind the door - and had sealed bits that were meant to be left as channels for water flow.
On further investigation though - we find that there is masses of damp behind some of the tiles ... hmmm ... this is going to be a bigger job than we anticipated.
