Two steps forward - but one step back!

 Firstly on a very positive note - the downstairs cloakroom is coming on and we have even put our first ornament in the house.  David still has to enclose the waste pipe from the upstairs bathroom but we now have the basin fitted along with a glass tap, as suggested by Ocean Bathrooms (when it gets manky you just lift it off and pop it in the dishwasher!).  The tiles were challenging to work with (they are 1m x 1m but only 3 mm thick) - needless to say we broke one which resulted in a delay whilst another one was ordered.























The lounge is now plastered thanks to our cheerful chaps from Adorn Plastering (Charlie has been replaced by Harry) and is drying out nicely.  However, due to the stunning weather this week, we opened the lounge patio door on Wednesday, the door dropped and the wood near the hinge at the top has cracked.  This was reported at 08:30 on Thursday morning, despite constantly chasing our old 'friends' at Ecohaus Internorm, two full working days later, we are still waiting to hear what their plan is for us - or even if they are going to pay us a visit to see the damage in the near future.  We believe that this door is too large for the tilt and turn mechanism.

Anyhow, David is making excellent progress in our bedroom.  The units have been supplied (as they were for Bedrooms 2 & 3) by Terence Ball Kitchens but we are putting an oak worktop (from Worktop Express) as believe this will be more durable and will also match in with our oak bed frame (still to be bought), the door and the step (which David is just fitting in this photo).

Finally, last night we had a visit from Marian & Gordon MacLean - being such old friends we didn't mind experimenting on them - so the steam oven was used for the very first time and we all seem to have survived the experience.