Day 323-325. Shower :-(

Wednesdays disaster was for it to become clear that the wetness of the carpet in the shower room was *not* overspill from using the shower, as we had been asuming, but instead seepage upwards from below. Argh. Get a plumber over, and the explanation eventually agreed on is that they failed to mastic the join of shower tray to walls at all, so its been leaking there. Hopefully that really is the answer, and not that there is some leak in the pipework underneath, otherwise we'll have out rip it out. This has also spread a bit into the linnen cupboard, resulting in the loss of "map projections" book, but not so bad there.

Meanwhile, painters at work.

Thursday/fri (/sat/sun) it does become clear that the water isn't growing and is probably retreating, so the mastic seems to be the answer. And Bob owes us a new carpet. When planning the project, of course, we totally neglected the pain/cost of little troubles like this. Les the tiler starts on the windowsills in bath/shower, and appears surprised that his grout or whatever has disappeared in the interval since he was last here. If he had actually come back promptly to finish up there would have been no problem.

Guttering turns up.

Friday: finally have to clear out the old kitchen/dining totally, to allow the last of the units to be ripped out and making-good to commence, in advance of painting and eventually floor laying. Only Les-the-tiler (who finishes the windowsills upstairs) and the elder-and-not-so-good painter in the morning; the other is doing something else in the morning. When I get back at 2:30 though they've all gone. Friday work ethic.