Charlotte Orr

This morning the electrician was here for a couple of hours to rough in the new wiring. In the old bathroom layout, all the wiring was on the right-h [...]

Another busy day in the bathroom. The electrician came first thing to do his final fit off. He put the light fitting back in and put in a new light sw [...]

Got two coats of paint on the ceiling and walls of the bathroom today. Not sure about the colour, but hopefully it will look better once it’s dr [...]

I’ve got a few days free until my next batch of work arrives, so am taking this opportunity to paint the bathroom (was too tired last weekend). [...]

[...] me show you around… The first thing you see on entering the bathroom is the basin. The shower screen is to the right: The shower screen is hinged so it can be pushed to one side when it’s [...]

[...] are all in place, the glass man was able to pop in this afternoon and measure up to make the shower screen. It may take up to a couple of weeks to produce, so will be the last thing to go in. [...]

[...] This morning the glass guy came to install the shower screen (it took less time to make the screen than I expected!). The screen has been made so that it [...]

[...] of the window frame took much longer than expected. While I was doing that, Rob washed the toilet walls with sugar soap, and put as much prep coat on the toilet walls as he could (a large man with a [...]

[...] hand-painted those areas again, just to get everything looking uniform. Then it was on to the toilet walls. They were a bit patchy from the partial prep coat applied a week ago, so I sanded back the [...]

[...] We were planning to paint the bathroom today, but scraping back the flaking paint on the inside of the window frame took much longer than [...]

[...] Got two coats of paint on the ceiling and walls of the bathroom today. Not sure about the colour, but hopefully it will look better once it’s dry. Tomorrow I& [...]

[...] project manager came in to do a few things, including mounting a bracket on the wall for the panel heater, and giving the plaster a sand in preparation for painting. He also arranged for a cleaner to [...]

[...] hidden in the mirrored cabinet above the basin, and one down low on the left-hand wall for a panel heater. We also wanted the old extractor fan taken out, since its position over the old shower meant [...]

[...] for one side of the bath and replace it. The plumber was here at the same time to move the bath mixer, as we decided the original placement was too low. Later in the day the areas that had work [...]

[...] on the ground floor are asbestos). Next up was the plumber. He installed the toilet, put in the bath mixer and bath spout, the shower mixer and shower head, and the basin and tap. Can’t use [...]

[...] bathroom were waterproofed, in preparation for tiling. So at the end of the day yesterday the bathroom walls looked like this: And when the waterproofer finished today, they looked like this: He also [...]

[...] The carpenters were back today to do some work on the bathroom floor. They put cement sheet down around the grate that the plumber roughed in the other day. So we [...]

[...] up was the plumber. He installed the toilet, put in the bath mixer and bath spout, the shower mixer and shower head, and the basin and tap. Can’t use anything yet though as silicone [...]

[...] of the garden on Christmas morning Roast vegetable salad (with the beetroot out of the garden) Garlic prawn salad Prawn racks Chocolate pavlova Trifle [...]