Day 2 of renovations

Saturday 25th August

Day 2

Today we got stuck in again. We got tot he house at around 10, sorted the water after causing a minor flood in the kitchen area. The water bubbled through a pipe that was not stopped off and resulted in water dripping through the light fitting in the kitchen downstairs.

The wall got taken out in the bathroom as well as most of the cupboard. We saved the cupboard doors for a later date. All this removing has revealed how shoddy a job was done last time the makeover was completed. The cupboard, for example, was built up over the original cupboard and covered the vertical part of the sash window in the bathroom. So now with the wall down it was up to removing all the tiles from the walls. Two of the walls are solid so are proving a bit more difficult to remove the tiles from. I ended up hammering the crowbar down behind them and levering the tiles off. More often than not this resulted in the tiles breaking apart. I ended up getting most of the tiles off with help from Mum and Dad. Sarah spent most of the day peeling the wallpaper off the walls.

Outside mum had a go at the garden bed that runs along the front and side of the house. A hard evenings graft and the result speaks for itself. It was on my list of things to do, but the list seems to be getting quite long. Mum did a fantastic effort and I think was very proud of the result of her afternoons work.

After a day of scraping the paper off downstairs, Sarah attacked the walls upstairs with the steamer and scraper. No match for the skill and strength of that team, the paper didn't stand a chance.

We took a little time off after lunch to have a quick look at the tile shops that run along Newport road. Stopping in tops tiles Sarah spotted a nice tile in the front of the shop that may go well in the bathroom, probably in the shower area. We will see.