Day 227-231. Stairs!

Nothing except talk monday-thurs (can we get the drains bit filled in? No, cos the old soil stack still has to come out some time; why have we got 5 tons of sand in the front? cos of the plastering).

But friday! Ah... Mr Cresent of Cambridge is at last ready to install his stairs (thats a bit unfair: it would have been last tues except he got sick), turns up and begins. Meanwhile Tim is here doing more kitchen-y things. Pete tPP comes to move the temporary waste pipes out of the way so the cooker stack can shuffle across.

When I get back, several kitchen units are fixed in place nicely and have their fronts on and drawers in and indeed look nice. Hurrah.

More excitingly, the stairs are in! Mr C is gone; Tim explains that the stairs need to rotate a bit; also the handrail needs to fix onto the studwork wall he will build on monday, so isn't in yet. Tim will put a cover over the beautiful surface of the treads so they don't get ruined by heavy builders feet and children with mud on their boots.

Photos: flickr set is building 2006-03.