Bathroom refit: Day 9

Today was tiling day and it was blimmin' freezing. The tile cutting machine, since it makes a lot of dust, stayed on the front path, with the result that the front door was once again open all day! Why couldn't they have been cutting tiles yesterday when it was sunny? I didn't have to worry about heating the street this time though: the heating system was partially drained to allow the connections to the heated towel rail to be made.

By lunchtime, tiling of the floor was completed and they'd moved on to the shower cubicle. This was quite frustrating, as every time I popped my head round the door I couldn't see anything. Mid-afternoon I finally walked into the bathroom to be greeted by this wondrous site:

Doesn't that look the dogs'? Well it will do when all those little tile spacers are removed, the gaps are filled with the nice dark grey grout, and all the lovely shower chrome has been installed.

So tomorrow is "fixing" day, and the guys are still aiming to be "finished" on time. I put that in quotes because I strongly suspect their idea of finished and ours will be slightly different. It's an early start for them: they have to grout all the tiles first and then fit the furniture.

They looked slightly nonplussed when I mentioned resurfacing the bath. We debated it for a while. They offered to clean it. When I checked the agreement it stated that the bath was "to be decided" which harks back to the time we weren't sure whether we were replacing it or not. Obviously the fact we decided to keep it and have it resurfaced never made it into the quote. Oh well. We're not really bath people anyway, but now we're worried new taps on a scratchy old bath will look odd. We'll have to wait and see how it polishes up.