DIY done

Well the 2nd phase of the DIY is now more or less done. I have completed the tiling and grouting of the bathroom and must admit that it is quite good. I still have a little bit of masticing to do but only in a couple of corners really.
+The next phase is to get a pump and a screen for the shower as the hot water pressure isnt strong enough to give a hot shower at the moment and the screen is needed to protect the floor. The 4th phase is to paint and put new florring down.

After that its into the kitchen to put in a new one of those. Think I need to win the lottery!!!

DIY Continued

The tiling is going gquite well. The best part of this morning was spwnt cutting tiles and trying not to break them. Every time I thought I had the perfiect nack to keeping the thin strip I was cutting hole it descided to break again.

Anyway here are the progress pictutes until Lunch today.

DIY

Over the past few weeks I have after many requests from my girlfriend to do some work on the bathroom and therefore I have.

During an evening last week I replaced the taps on the basin to lovely silver and gold ones along with puting in service valves on the pipes underneith. Then yesterday I spend the day fitting new taps in the bath so that there will be a shower in there too. The taps are in they need tightening as they move slightly however there isnt enough pressure in the hot water to provide a shower as yet but Im sure I will find a way of sorting that.


Totay I have spent the day tiling the bathroom above the bath I am about half way through the main wall that runs the length of the bath and have done sections of the other two walls that encompass the bath. As yet I havent grouted but I will do that when I have completed all of the tiling. However I am pleased with my first efforts of both plumbing and tiling. As we said in the pub last night "It ain't leaking so the plumbing is good" so I guess tonights comment should be "the tiles are staying on the wall so the tiling is good too".

Six Nations Week 3

After a week off the 6 nations got back having a go at each other. For the first time in history (both 5 and 6 nations) there was a game on Friday night which saw the French host the Welsh. Must admit I didnt see the fixture as I was in Manchester at Andreas's Scout Troups Race Night (I broke just under even for the evening) however back to the rugby despite an equally shared first half the French beat the Welsh by 21-16 making life difficult for the french to retain the championship and negating their chances of a grand slam.

Scotland took on the Italians in th eearly KO on Friday and took the spoils quite happily with a 20 point victory winning 26-6. The game was quite good and I was glad to see the Scots win their first game of the 6 Nations, I dont expect another win but atleast we have reduced the chance of the wooden spoon this year.

Ireland managed to have a very luckey victory over the English beating them by just a single point. I only saw the first half and it wasn't anything special. The second half for me was spent travelling to a dinner that I went to with Andrea and her brother and sister.