The diy work goes on

After 3 and a half weeks the troop of men finally left and we had our house back! We'd slep in every room in the house practically except our bedroom and so the night that we got back from work and the work men had left for good we got stuck into getting the house straightened out as much as possible. We had to vaccuum each room 3 times, wipe down every surface at least twice and then dust but that night as we settled back down to life in our proper bed, in our real bedroom life seemed great! The cat had been utterly bemused for three weeks straight, if not a little snippy, so her nose was practically more pink than I've ever seen it and she purred through the night. She even didn't bite either of us for at least 24 hours! We'd had the whole house rewired, new plug sockets, light fittings and switches put in, laminate floors pulled up and the bathroom done but now begins the work we don't get any help with; the wallpapering.Everything ended up everywhere

The chaos the house was in mid re-wire

The cat - pleased that the men have left!

And it's begun! The last 2 weekends we have sandpapered, painted, sealed, sized, pasted and hung and we have finished 2 panels. Out of 40 metres square we have probably completed 4.5 but hey it's a start! Here are the pics of the beautiful bathroom.

Paul from KABS did a very good job.

The finished bathroom

The week of luck

We decided to get the bathroom done and since Hez and Becky had just had theirs done and were recommending the guy who did it we hired him. Paul is quite young but very precise and seems keen to do a good job. In short we trust him. We'd spend months if not years discussing the bathroom and to be frank we were sick to death of looking at catalogues, so we decided to do things a la Hez and Becky - we sent Paul off with an idea of what we liked and he went and chose everything. The only things left for us to get was the furniture; towel rail, cabinet etc. So we headed off to Ikea in Coventry on the friday night. We did well and got everything on that evening, which was a stroke of luck, then I followed Al home as we'd come in separate cars. He has a country lane route which is a short cut. It was on one of those dark lanes that I was going round a parked car when a smart car (driving towards me on the other side with a faulty front light) and I clashed mirrors. Mine was utterly destroyed... bloody pain in the neck! In the morning I asked our neighbour Dave who, handily, is a car mechanic. He was able to fix it. Paul got cracking on the bathroom on the monday but a few days in it became apparent that there were several problems with our electrics. After an electrician, Carl, looked around the house it was determined we'd have to consider rewiring the whole house. Now, there were other alternatives but me and Al thought it was a bit of a Hobsons choice and decided to get the job booked in and done asap. The bathroom we were hoping could be finished as early as friday (yesterday) but it looks like it'll be tuesday since the walls all needed plastering. So today, with the house filled with tools and bits and bobs, we are heading off to pick new lights as the whole house will be done. Then yesterday, poor Al discovered a long crack in his windscreen out of nowhere! Please can this be the end of our run of bad luck, please?!
I'll show you pictures soon...