Day 277. And Pete tPP. Shower tray. Granite

Today Pete tPP (the Portly Plumber, if you've been forgetting) joins the crew. I leave them to it. Not quite sure whats gone on... the shower tray is in place, and some waste piping for it and the bath next door. Also the shower valves and pipes in place. Meanwhile Tim has hung some doors.

In town, to Howdens (uselessly) and MFI (ditto) about cooker hoods - we have a problem with this, since we have a window at 2m and only 1100 mm between the sill and the worktop, which at a min 650 mm clearance leaves only 450 mm to fit the hood into, a thing we didn't think of before buying one... Bosch tech support suggest the DHU 635, which is not glorious but is practical and would definitely fit.

Later on, talk with Ian about general progress (its going as fast as can be expected, is his opinion) and his plans for the front: various slabs, and a step by the front door.

More interestingly, I've been to Ivett and Reed to inspect the granite we're proposing to buy for the worktop, cos one of their chaps felt we ought to see the veining, cos apparently it can have these flaws. Sadly he wasn't there, but a chap who didn't really think there was any great problem was there... So we went to look at the slabs. See pix above. RHS: me reflected in the slab, with the vein running vertically through me. Can't see it? Try the LHS pic, maybe full sized. You only see it in certain angles of the light, it isn't a structural weakness. To the rubbed finger it can barely be felt, with a thumbnail you can just catch it in a few places. So we'll live with that.

The funny strips at the bottom of the top RHS pic are other slabs, BTW.