14th May 2018
I had high hopes for the day. Firstly a man came to make the templates for the kitchen. He was due at 8.00am which meant an early start, again. Armed with sheets of thin MDF he set about cutting and trimming them into accurate sized patterns. I was impressed that he used a jigsaw upside down, not something I was keen to try, but the cut lines were perfectly straight.
Next I wanted to get rid of the growing pile of rubbish, so the Shogun was loaded up to the roof.
Andy didn’t fit the shower tray on Sunday like he said he would, so that was the first disappointment of the day.
Progress has been slipping every day, and it looks unlikely that the bathroom will be finished before I leave for the US.
I did push Andy to get the tray bedded before the end of the day.
This was really difficult to do, there was a bed of cement that the tray had be be lowered on to. Fortunately Andy brought along some suction handles to help with the task. I felt my neck swell up like a bullfrog as I took the strain. The best antidote for this is swearing, really bad words, and very loud, it was all over very quickly, and after a bit of shuffling it was done.
Another Lifetime to go 