I am currently writing my review of 2018, it is almost finished, just needing some tweaks and a re-read (and creation of photo montages) before posting.

I have an an update to my recent post ‘Temporary Curtains‘…

The carpet has arrived and is due to be fitted on Wednesday. This means I need to move my computer and desk out of the room along with a couple of other pieces of furniture. I don’t think it is worth setting up my computer for the brief time this is going on so the posting of my review will have to wait until I have access to my computer and photographs.

For now enjoy a step back in time in ‘My Space’:

2010

2010

My Space Rearranged (2008)

My Space (2007)

This image will confuse the eye. It was taken in a mirror so the room is reversed…

The fitter had hoped to complete our project on day six, despite the setback at the beginning of the job. Everything was going well until he came to fix the radiator to the wall; one of the pipes was leaking. This meant he would have to drain the heating system in order to fix it. Draining the system is a long job and he decided it was too late in the day because of the risk of any further complication. This meant that I would have to take the day off work whilst the fitter completed the final tasks. This was unfortunate because I had a meeting that I should have but my manager was understanding and insisted that I had the day off. She said she could attend the meeting briefly if needed and anything else could be followed up by email the next day.

I arrived home from work rather later than intended but still in plenty of time before Mr C had to go out; he was meeting someone for dinner. I decided to delay my own evening meal whilst the fitter continued working on grouting and cleaning the hall tiles. He eventually left at around 7.20pm, leaving me to put my ready meal in the oven to eat slightly later than normal.

After my meal I had time to take a proper look at the new tiling which was now cleaned of all the muck and dust from the day before. It was then that I noticed a blemish in one of the tiles; it was chipped in the opposite direction of the natural lines in the tiles. Once I had noticed it I was sure it would annoy me. Something to mention to the fitter in the morning…

Day five saw the start of the hall tiling which you may recall was the main reason for our project. Good progress was made but the dwindling light made it impossible to see to make the finer cuts on the tiles around the edge of the hallway.

When I arrived home after a day in the office some of the floor tiles were marked with large crosses. I was told that I couldn’t walk on these tiles until the morning. As you can see, this made navigating the bottom of the stairs a little tricky.

The tiling in the ’smallest room in the house’ progressed to near completion. The electricians arrived to fit the new ceiling light and fan, and apparently they were their usual surly selves so I am glad I was at work. At least they fitted what was asked for this time without grumbling.

When I returned home from work we had an appointment with the salesman from the company that supplied our front door from. One of our neighbours is currently having some work done by the same company so we asked if someone would call to measure for a new backdoor. The current door has bowed and is letting in cold air. Whilst the salesman was there we got chatting about the work they were doing on our neighbours house and we found out that they also fit garage doors. We having been looking at options for replacing our garage door because the current door is an up and over door meaning a lot of headroom is lost, making it awkward to place shelving units and maximise the use of space. They provide the sort of door we had in mind but  the salesman was able to show us an even more favourable option. This is something we will follow up on after we have had the new backdoor fitted early in the New Year.

On the previous day the fitter had ordered  the tiles and fittings to be delivered first thing in the morning. This did not happen according to plan, they were delivered an hour later than scheduled putting the fitter back in his plan for the day. Whilst he was waiting we worked out how high on the wall the mirror would be placed. When the materials arrived the fitter worked hard and managed to get the most difficult wall of the ’smallest room in the house’ tiled before it was time to retire for the weekend.