Marvel at the awesomeness!

Before and after shots for today.

M. Torelli has done a brilliant job with the shower enclosure; we would have much preferred one without edges and the bar holding it together, but trying to convince anyone here to do that would have been a stretch too far.

OK, so Chris managed it, but he did it himself in England!

Never mind, it looks great (considering), and I'm happy with that.

The issue with the pedestal for the washbasin is (hopefully) open to persuasion by M. T: Lapeyre say we've had the column too long [bought in July; doesn't matter that the building trade shuts down for a month in August], and even though it's clearly a manufacturing fault, tough!

He's hoping to email them and get a better outcome. Otherwise he has some enamel repair liquid that he will use...

Or I will see how much another *bleep* column costs and fork out for that; to be decided later when David has had a chance to see it.

Owing to an attack of wussiness, the testing for the central heating will happen when the weather is cooler!

He has to come back to fit the taps to the other basin/(hopefully) a new pedestal, and various finishing touches to hide the red and blue plumbing pipes. Mirrors also a sticky point; the plan for that is as Miroiterie Champagne haven't responded to his email he sent in July [they may only just have reopened after a month off], he's going to call in tomorrow lunchtime, on the basis that a big bloke standing in front of the counter is much harder to ignore than an email!

But all the messy bits are done, so I can clean up the bedroom now. But not tonight.