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Today the joinery in the kitchen was done and I awarded myself a needed day off (I wasn't feeling quite well anyway), whilst Sir went off and earned us some money. This is the kitchen (taken a few days later when we'd put some stuff in and the tiling had already been done - see Day 7).
Ugh! Look what they've done to our home! 
AAAARRRRGHHH!!! 
This nasty trunking stuff is supposed to be for industrial premises, not for domestic use! The Council's specification, apparently, was to leave all the wiring on the surface, 'so that they can get at it easily'. Man! Since when would they need to? If something goes awry, it's usually at one end or the other, not the wire itself. When telling the sparkies that we intended to sink it all in, they couldn't think why - until I asked them if they would want this in their home, that is!! People get the point PDQ when asked that!!!
Look at the kitchen wall! Well, at least the wiring has been sunk in here and it will all be re-plastered tomorrow.
Anyway, Martin lost no time in starting to sink the wires into the walls and ceiling.... We thought we'd just stay one night at mum's (we went there last Sunday night so that all could be ready for the sparkies at 8am Monday morning), but looks like it might be a bit longer a stay than that.....
So, day two was the fitting of the new bath suite. The loo is in the same place as before, but the bath tub and washbasin are swapped over. I heard that they're creating a kind of shower cubicle at the head of the bath, so I'm wondering if we're going to get one of those screens as well. I kind of hope not as it will be easier to clean the bath without a screen to stretch around. We do get a super new shower though, so that's something nice too. Here's what it looks like in 
there after I cleaned the basin and loo, (got fed up before getting to the bath itself and I've been cleaning up vigorously after each day's work), and we put a few bits in there to use. We're still showering at mum's though. Can't get your hair clean properly and I don't feel I want to bath in a building site!No work being done today or tomorrow as it's the weekend and even the Council are not so keen to get the work completed that they have their team working weekends! They're pleased enough that each flat is supposed to be 'in progress' for 5 weeks, but they are actually completing in only 3. Good news for us tenants. At least it's all free of charge for us, we can get a re-decoration grant for the work we have to do ourselves later too, but we don't have to do any of this heavy work ourselves. We'll see how rotten the place looks post re-wire on Monday...... They're not sinking any of the wires into the walls (except the kitchen) and so it's going to look RUBBISH! We're thinking of doing that ourselves later on as we want our place to look nice, right?
So, the work on our flat has begun in earnest! We're having a complete re-wire and new kitchen and bathroom. The re-wiring will necessitate total re-decoration, but it was time it was done again really. It's been 7 years now.
Day one was yesterday and was 'demo' day. Demo short, not for demonstration, but demolition. Originally, we were told that it would be a short day's work with just the wallpaper coming off in the kitchen, but it turned out to be a little more severe a stripping than that. Have a look:
Here's the bathroom too. From the window before and after:
Then towards the window from the door: 
Needless to say, we are taking showers at my mum's place!!! Day Two is fitting the new bath suite. Even though that happened today, I haven't done a pic yet and there's no work going on tomorrow, (Saturday), so I'll post that one then. Day Three is the complete re-wire and will be by far the worst. After that, it's putting stuff back together rather than destroying it!
Here is the 10th wedding anniversary card. It was very well received by Steve and Jacquie. Although their anniversary isn't until tomorrow, Jax couldn't wait when I gave her it on Wednesday and opened it right away!!!
sinking of the new wiring, light switches and power points. Just as well there was no-one else working in here with us as the noise was horrendous at times! 
The site manager and some of the other outside workmen came in to look at what we were doing. They didn't know what all the noise was!!! No photos taken today, but here are some of the mess in the other rooms and that we are having to work around. 
Today the joinery in the kitchen was done and I awarded myself a needed day off (I wasn't feeling quite well anyway), whilst Sir went off and earned us some money. This is the kitchen (taken a few days later when we'd put some stuff in and the tiling had already been done - see Day 7).
Plastering today and here's what the kitchen and bathroom looked like after the walls were replaced!!!
Ugh! Look what they've done to our home! 
AAAARRRRGHHH!!! 
Look at the kitchen wall! Well, at least the wiring has been sunk in here and it will all be re-plastered tomorrow.
there after I cleaned the basin and loo, (got fed up before getting to the bath itself and I've been cleaning up vigorously after each day's work), and we put a few bits in there to use. We're still showering at mum's though. Can't get your hair clean properly and I don't feel I want to bath in a building site!
So, the work on our flat has begun in earnest! We're having a complete re-wire and new kitchen and bathroom. The re-wiring will necessitate total re-decoration, but it was time it was done again really. It's been 7 years now.
Here is the 10th wedding anniversary card. It was very well received by Steve and Jacquie. Although their anniversary isn't until tomorrow, Jax couldn't wait when I gave her it on Wednesday and opened it right away!!!
