Day 199. Plumbing and glass brick window

Mostly plumbing today. Pete has to drain the system down to fit the radiator back on the wall, and takes the opportunity to swap some of the radiator vales over (I said, why don't you use that clever stuff that freezes the pipes and means you don't have to drain? And he said, we only use that when desparate). Other misc stuff - I wasn't here.

Notice in this pic the new lintel, and line of filling bricks, above the window: when built, there was no real lintel, just some concrete, and resting on the old window frames. Which must have been a bit of a fiddle when they swapped in the double glazing whenever.

Today Pete the bricklayer does the glass block window at the side (since they are glass bricks this is a bricklaying job...); they have been around since before christmas. I think it got put off because it was slightly tricky to do the last ones from the inside, for obvious reasons. Happily, our relations with Betty are now OK (indeed she is invited over for tea today) and M asks her if Pete can put a ladder up on her side, and this is OK. So perhaps waiting was sensible!

Living with a newly, err, expanded kitchen is OK, though its cold (fortunately today is somewhat above zero, whereas yesterday was definitely below zero (outside, not in)).

Pics: see-also 2006-01 at flickr.