Tiling

So only 8 days on from the last post and I'm pleased to say that the last tile went onto the bathroom wall tonight! It seems to have taken an age... There was only really one major (and highly disheartening) experience and that was when the tiles I'd stuck to the top of the window (upside down) fell off and cracked one of the tiles on the freshly laid sill. Still it could have been a lot worse than a single cracked tile (Such as a punctured bath!). I learned from my mistakes however and found that putting adhesive on the wall as well as the tiles was the secret (with plenty of force to stick it on there and create plenty of suction from the extra thick smothering of adhesive!).

We've already got the majority of the room grouted and so tomorrow once the adhesive on tonights tiles have dried we should be able to finish it off! At that point the whole room will need an extremely good clean before laying the laminate floor and then installing the rest of the bathroom suite!

Not only is the bathroom taking shape, but Alex the plasterer has been working mightly hard (up to 20:30 one night!!) to give us our living room! He's got three out of the four walls done now and has done a mighty fine job on the fireplace.

He's also re-boarded and skimmed the wall in the study where the fireplace was - what a difference it makes to that room! We spent an afternoon plasterboarding the study ceiling, so once he's finished in the lounge he's likely to carry on in there. Once those two rooms are done that'll be the downstairs complete!!

It's all starting to take shape, but I just wish it would take shape sooner! I just hope theres some truth in the age old saying of: "Good things come to those who wait"!