My bets are on
@Colin Grigson finishing and moving in before
@JhnBssll! 😂😂
I don't think there's much doubt there, you wouldn't get very good odds
We chose a kitchen worktop style and bought some floor tiles today
We've gone for a quartz worktop called Flannel - a mottled light grey with a matt finish. The majority of the surfaces were super shiny and we weren't too keen on that. We've gone for a similar finish but dark grey floor tile
I've got Monday off work so will likely try and put them down then - I'll need to pop the cement boards back up and put a bit of tile adhesive under them before I lay the tiles but now they're all cut to size that won't take long
I spent a few hours this afternoon looking at walls and mulling over pipe routes. Mrs Bssll was very pleased to see the modification I have made to the stairs... The carpet and underlay will be going so I dont need to be too careful, it is one of the last remaining ones that were in the house when we bought it and has definitely seen better days
I've made a start, popping a few holes through in to the void under the stairs so I could poke this bit of copper pipe through...
This gives me something to connect up to when I put the water feed in for the new downstairs loo
I'll do the same for the hot water, and will be running the heating flow and return through here too
This is what it looks like on the other side of the wall - not much progress today, but I'll try and do a bit more tomorrow 😊
The vertical 22mm pipe in the left hand corner will eventually run up the wall, through the ceiling and directly in to the airing cupboard and will be the new mains water feed for everything upstairs, including the combi boiler. Where it reduces from 22 to 15mm on the horizontal run is where it goes through the wall to come out under the stairs. The 15mm continues all to the isolator valve on the right which will be where the fridge freezer plumbs in
I'll be modifiying the area where the cold pipe crosses the two 10mm heating pipes when I drain the heating down - I've made some little fittings to connect the hoses of the plinth heater, you can see one of them a little better in this close up...
Plenty more to do - I'll run 22mm along the back wall of the kitchen next, stopping near the stopcock for connection at a later date. Then I need to pop the floor up in the airing cupboard and work out what the hell I'm going to do up there to connect it all up, and equally important, how I'm going to disconnect the old mains feed and make good
I'm quite sure the previous owner will have left booby traps, all fun and games...
The HGV driver shortage has screwed up their delivery schedule so the kitchen that was originally due this week then delayed to next week has now been pushed back to the week of 11th October 
Mrs Bssll isn't going to be best pleased, another 2 weeks with no kitchen and the house in disarray. On the bright side, it wasn't my fault this time 
