Bathroom Update

Yesterday's job was to take the tiles off the floor. However, Ollie hit one with the chisel and we decided that we would just tile over the old ones (it says we can in the B & Q DIY book so that's ok!)

So today we were going to remove the bottom of the shower tray, tile the floor and then go to the cinema while the tiles dried and then come home and fit the new loo. However, we got a bit carried away with the shower and ended up taking the whole thing out and all the tiles off the wall. Taking the shower tray up we discovered that there isn't actually any floor under it! But we did find a load of pipes from when we presume they used to be a bath. They have used 3 cans worth of foam which I did have to remove. I swear our whole house is held together with foam!

Now we haven't found our mains stop cock by this point and had spent all yesterday making holes in the back of the kitchen cupboards trying to find it. So a trip to B & Q this afternoon found us bying breeze blocks to fill in the hole in the floor and a gadget to stop the water from the street.

We got home and figured that we can use the existing pipes instead of running new ones from where the sink used to be. So there is a pipe at the bottom which we think runs to where the shower is which has an isolation valve. So we turn it and a load of water comes out the wall! Strange we think, but close it again.We then turn the water off at the mains to remove the shower. We need the pipe from the shower to be a lot lower, so Ollie cuts it down a bit in the wall and then cuts the bit at the bottom. We need to test the valve so turn the water back on. Water spurts out the pipe in the wall that we think we have just cut off from the mains. Off the water goes again!

Turns out there are 2 pipes in the wall and after spending 2 hours making holes in the wall to find out where the pipe goes we find that it goes back into the kitchen. So we hop off to Homebase to get a stop for the end and to feed the cats at Helen's so we can have a drink with dinner (we have earned it by this point!) When we got back there's a knock on the door from next door to say that they don't have any water! Turns out that the thing we turned off in the street is their water too! Luckily the stop end worked and we now have water again.

I've just finished the plastering (apart from the shower area which looks like a bombs gone off and has more holes than an aero!

So tomorrow is plastering, the cinema and a new loo.

Here are some photos of our progress (taken by Ollie)