Within minutes of our two excellent bathroom fitters arriving, sounds of pummelling and falling tiles could be heard in the next room. With yet more impeccable timing, I was on a voice conference, so spent much of the time with the phone on 'mute'! I didn't see the old toilet pan wend its way to the skip, or the fern being removed from its cosy home in the cistern, but the next time I peered through the toilet door it looked like this.If I hadn't been able to hear the work in progress, I would have know something was up by the thin film of dust that started to settle on my monitor. At least, it started off as a thin film. Pretty soon I could hardly read what I was writing and the keys began to feel decidedly sticky.
Towards the end of the morning the bath was disconnected and moved into the study and the guys broke for lunch at around 12.30, shortly after the new kit was delivered. I took the chance to have a good poke around. They were moving methodically round the room stripping plasterwork and tiles back to the brick and had reached the far corner of the bathroom. Two walls down, two to go. Through the hole in the ceiling where the toilet wall had been, I could see the attic. There was a strip light in there! Who knew? I'd been groping around up there in the dark, too!
By three o'clock the majority of the stripping out was complete and the guys were scratching their heads in the study working out exactly how they were going to move the wall back to build the shower enclosure. In the end they decided they'd need some more timber, so they called it a day to give themselves time to pick up what they needed before the suppliers closed. It means they'll be all set for an early start tomorrow and the dust and mess will move into the study - there'll be no escape! See Flickr for a full set of today's photos.
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