Really pleasing progress today

Yet another lovely Summer day here again today, but once again I had to put all thoughts of enjoying the sunshine, or flying, completely out of my head. With only a week to go before my family arrives and with each part of the job taking a bit longer than I originally anticipated because of unforeseen problems, I had to start early and press on with my kitchen work. I’d set myself a target to have completed all of the making good around where my old sink was by the end of the day, so with that in mind I set to work. Here’s how things looked at lunch time.

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I had no choice but to bash the wall away around the sink waste pipe because I soon found that it had never been made good properly and that in fact there was a gap through almost the complete thickness of the wall to the outside. I knew that because I’d noticed several small black bees congregating outside at a position where there are holes in the stones that I could now see corresponded to the sink waste pipe. Soon after I began to remove the lumps of stone responsible for the bumps on the inside of the wall, a small bee emerged into the kitchen, followed shortly after by another. So making the wall good properly became a high priority! 😐

Although it looked a mess after all the old tiles had been knocked off, it didn’t look quite so bad after I’d cleared them all away and swept up.

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It was then just a metter of pressing on until the job was completed, which it was by the early evening, after Andy Murray had become Wimbledon Champion, unfortunately, so I missed the match. I don’t have a plastering trowel because unfortunately I loaned mine to someone and never got it back, and I keep forgetting to buy a replacement. So I had to apply all of the making-good mortar as usual by a small hand trowel, which was slow and tedious work, but nevertheless, eventually the job was done.

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I was very pleased by the progress I managed to make over the week-end, and today especially, which I think will keep me on track to have all of the kitchen base units and accessories in before next week-end. Tomorrow I’ll be able to start installing the remaining base units and may be able to get them all in by the end of the day. I’m going to try to polish the tile patches that I put in, using my wet polisher so it’ll be interesting to see how they come out. I’ll keep my fingers crossed in the meantime 😉