Bathroom Floor

18th January 2012
Today is the first real day of living in a renovation site. Before I was really even awake, the builder John arrived. Shortly after the first 6m skip for rubbish was delivered. Then Robert & John started demolishing the bathroom.

The first "challenge" arrived when we discovered one end of the room had a concrete slab, and so there was a bit of conferencing to decide how it could be worked around.

The plumber Peter came to view the site.  Because the floors are so close to the ground, any replumbing has to be done whilst the floors are absent.

At this stage we discover the exterior wall behind where the shower was has rotted away, and so part of it will need to rebuilt. The vinyl cladding on the exterior (which we had planned to remove) was hiding this damage.

So by the end of day 1 - the dirt floor had been exposed - and only 2 pieces of timber were worth keeping. Just about everything else had rotted away.