Progress?

Doesn't seam like I'm exactly getting very far at the moment with the house. A lot of waiting around and driving to places to buy stuff but not a lot of actual work :-(

This morning I had a bloke service my gas fires and boiler, which are all working fine. Switched the heating on and that worked no problem. Was good to feel some warmth in the place. It's been freezing the last few days.

I went to Bishop and bought some plumbing stuff (copper pipe & fittings), electrical items (wire, breakers) and once again swapped my shower. This time all the parts appear to be there, just hope it works when it all gets fitted. Oh, I got a pole and mounts to fix the WiFi antenna to the house.

This afternoon we cleared all the debris from the bathroom after pulling the old suite out last night. Then chased the wall using my dads new toy he bought from ALDI last week (an Angle Grinder) it only took a few minutes to chase the wall, normally you would of been on for ages with a chisel, only cost him a total of £15 for the grinder and loads of discs.

While my dad was doing that IC Davison came out to measure up my doors and will drop a quote in tomorow for me. Hopefully it wont be too expensive and I can get them done quickly. Asked them for prices with and without fitting. If its too expensive I will fit them myself. Not paying loads of money when both my dad and Brother-in-law have fitted their own before!

We have made the pipe up that goes up the wall and into the back of the shower with all the fittings, it just needs connecting to the mains pipe now. So tomorrow we've gotta do that and run a new mains power cable, this is one serious shower pulling 10.5 kW, the cable is very thick and weighs a ton. I better not stand in the shower all day like I normally do or its gonna cost me a fortune in electricty.

My gas meter is being changed tomorrow morning between 8 and 1, getting rid of that stupid pre-pay meter and having a normal one fitted. Well I hope its tomorrow, the bloke said on the phone the 1st March but he also said "Thursday, 1st March" so I hope he got the date and not the day right. He did say the 1st more than once!

About 3 tomorrow afternoon I'm gonna have a look down the Auctions at Bishop (viewing day) to see if there is anything of any interest. It just says household items on the internet. Normally that means a load of junk, but you never know might be something of interest?