Bathroom refit: Day 2

An 8 o'clock start for the bathroom guys this morning but for the first couple of hours there was only one of them, finishing off the stripping out of the last bathroom wall, removing the last of the flooring and tidying up.

Around 11 o'clock the stud work for the new shower enclosure started to go up. I really appreciated the order of work here, because if the bathroom wall had been taken down first the mess in the study would have been colossal. It took the guys a couple of hours to erect the two walls and board up. Follow yesterday's link to flickr for an updated set of photos. Once the walls were up they disappeared into the bathroom and the sounds of the final wall being taken down could be heard.

After their usual short break for lunch work continued clearing the remains of the wall and then beginning the dry-lining of the other walls.

By the time they knocked off, around 4pm, the new shower space looked like this, with most of the end wall of the bathroom boarded out. The pipes for our old heated towel rail can just be made out rising up from the floor in the foreground. The original bathroom door (visible on the left of this picture) will be closed off and the new improved towel rail fitted against it. What was the toilet door is being retained as the new bathroom door.

Tomorrow, apparently, is "electrician day" - lighting cables need to be rerouted, and power cables for the old immersion heater removed. Some of the cables currently hanging from the ceiling may also run to the sockets in the attic room, and may need to be rerouted.