The Smallest Room in the House

The fitter arrived slightly later than on previous days, he had a small job to attend to first. When he arrived I pointed out the small chip that I had noticed in the tile. With a straight face he said ‘Well you will just have to look the other way!’, followed by ‘It will have to be lifted’.

I went upstairs and allowed him to get on with what he needed to do. The first job was to drain the central heating system so that the leak could be repaired.   A short while later I heard an exclamation, something had obviously not gone as planned! When I went downstairs a little while later to see if he wanted a cup of coffee he proceeded to tell me what the problem was; whilst fitting the radiator the pipe had pulled out of the wall, which required some repair work included a new tile in that area. I  was amazed at how easily he was able to ‘lift’ the damaged tile and replace it. The hallway was now looking perfect.

He installed the loo, the sink, loo roll holder and towel holder (luckily Mr C was able to come home at lunchtime and help supervise the placing of the latter two items).

When all the work was done the water was turned back on, causing some alarming gurgling noises. The radiators were bled and the gurgling settled down. The job being completed the fitter left and I had a few moments to myself before I had to go out and get some Christmas things sorted out.

The Smallest Room in the House

Now all that was needed was for the dust to settle and a big spring Christmas clean before we put up our Christmas trees…

8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 17th 2016

8 Responses to “The Smallest Room in the House – Day Seven”

  1. Alan says:

    I expected your plumber was flushed with success having completed this job :) . That radiator is quite small, isn’t it?

    • CherryPie says:

      HaHa :-)

      The radiator is small, just the right size for the room. we kept it rather than replace it because they don’t make them that size anymore.

  2. Astrid says:

    WOW, you survived it….. and so did the plumber… it looks great and what a change. Cleaning will be a joy I think and before you know you can sit and relax and the Christmas tree is up too….. Congratulations with everything that is done (and still living ;) )

    • CherryPie says:

      I have cleaned the rooms several times to suppress the dust, I am a little tired..

      But Yah the Christmas trees are now up, it must be Christmas ;-)

  3. Ayush says:

    all looks to have been completed in the smallest room, CP.

  4. Cream is such a popular colour here for bathrooms?!
    Mine is also cream.
    Cream tiles everywhere.

    • CherryPie says:

      The tiles in my bathroom are not cream ;-)

      What I have noticed is that you can have baths, sinks and toilets in any colour you like as long as it is white!!