It’s now been 4 weeks since our works started, so it’s time for another update.
As our builders promised at the end of the last update, we entered a fairly long stage of not a lot of visible stuff happening. This just seems to be the way of building a bathroom - they need to get all the stuff below the floor sorted and tested before they can move on to other things. So there’s been plenty of laying pipes under the floorboards and chasing out channels for wires in the walls, and then putting the floorboards back and filling in the channels - this doesn’t present many opportunities for exciting photos…
But once they’d completed that they got to move on to more exciting bits! We’re now in the constructive stage of bathroom fitting. We can see it actually taking shape and can walk around it without fear of falling into the room below - that’s what I call progress!
The New Kitchen
Speaking of opportunities for exciting photos - even less has been happening on the kitchen front. We’ve had the ceiling and plasterboard plastered, so I can let you enjoy photos of plaster drying…
The room’s also been painted - contract white for the moment but we’re testing out some final colours. They managed to paint the plaster rather more successfully than we managed in the utility room :)
That’s about it for the kitchen this time. The flooring people are due to come and restore our floor in a week or so, and then the installation of the units will start from the beginning of November.
As much as we thought we’d already suffered the effects of supply chain issues they’re rearing their head again. It’s currently looking like the dishwasher and hob are going to arrive a couple of weeks after the rest of the kitchen. Apparently we could always pay ££££ to get them sooner…
Speaking of dishwashers, we noticed the other day that our current dishwasher outputs water slightly faster than our drain is willing to take it away which results in water occasionally getting on the floor behind the kitchen units. I’ve inspected the pipes and they seem clear so our current solution is a sacrificial towel wrapped around the pipe. I suspect that this might have been happening ever since we put the dishwasher in so I’m hoping it can survive a few more weeks, but it’s still pretty grim.
Any other news?
LVGO is back! The London Video Game Orchestra is back up and running after a long hiatus! We’ve been travelling back and forth to London every week to go to rehearsals and we’re really enjoying it! It’s definitely the thing that we’re going to miss most about London.
Due to covidy restrictions we’re strugging to find somewhere suitable as a concert venue, so it looks like our next concert will be in our rehearsal venue. We’re provisionally aiming for November 13th, so keep that clear if you want to come :D
We went round Bath Abbey one rainy afternoon and found the manliest name ever. We haven’t checked, but I suspect that they’ll be related to the Mrs. Anne Power that’s on our 1817 lease document. Bath is a small place.
I think that’s everything for now. I hope all of you out there are having a good time as well 😄