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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).
Windy day out with house guest Jeanine and Sunshine at Sand Point.
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.
As aluded to a few weeks ago, we have now become homeowners! Whoopee!!! Here's me (still in my convention t-shirt jammies) getting the call from the solicitors this morning telling us that it had all gone through ... hello 20 years of debt!
And the first thing we did as new homeowners? We insulated the loft! It already had 150mm old insulation, but we decided to add 200mm more recycled glass stuff that was subsidised under the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target. You can't beat 7 rolls of insulation for £21 ... It was even worth doing two trips to our local B&Q as we could only fit 5 rolls in the car at one time.
Anyways, now we are warmer homeowners ... next job, underfloor insulation - think that is going to be a bit more messy.
Ah, I do like vintage picture dominoes ... especially like the fox on this Abbatt Toys one.
reblogged from planetmithiOh my goodness ... my computer has been pretty dead for the last month or so. I've had internet access on the laptop - but its the desktop I use with Potatoshop etc so image handling has been non-existant.
ANYWAYS, in the mean time, the exciting news is WE ARE BUYING A HOUSE! .... infact, we are buying OUR house!!! Yes, after living here for 4 years we are going to transfer from being tenants - to being homeowners ... how exciting! To commemorate the occasion I am going to do a drawing of the house when we exchange/complete the purchase (should be in the next few weeks), but in the meantime, here is a drawing I did of it when we first moved here back in September 2007.
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 ...
