Excited....

[ferlew]

Mr Plumber rang today, he can start wet room on Monday, yayyyyyyyy!!!

[Jeza]

Good news ferlew, how long will the work take?

[ferlew]

He says two weeks max Jeza.

[Buenchico]

>>>He says two weeks max Jeza

So that breaks down into . . .

Monday: Arrive and turn water off. Go to collect parts but not come back.

Tuesday: Disconnect lots of pipes, making it totally impossible to turn the water back on without flooding the house. Go to fetch the part that couldn't be obtained on Monday but fail to return.

Wednesday: Phone to say that he's had to rush off to an urgent job somewhere else.

Thursday: Send you a postcard from Tenerife.

Friday to Wednesday: Get pished and sunburnt in Tenerife

Thursday: Return to get most of the work done but still leaving you without any water at the end of the day.

Friday: Finish the tiny job that, if it had been done on Thursday, would have allowed you to turn the water back on. Spend the rest of the day drinking tea (but, of course, charging for the time). Leave rubbing hands at the thought of the ridiculously large bill that will soon be in the post.

Me, cynical about plumbers? Surely not!

;-)

[Jeza]

Chris, that sounds like when I got a fitted kitchen. The electrician DID go to Tenerife half way through the job.

[DaisyNonna]

My plumber is great. Even changes light bulbs I Cannot reach!

[gness]

Ahhh....Ferlew will charm him into finishing the job early and giving her a whacking great discount.....☺

[Baldric]

Ah, I just saw 'Excited' followed by 'gness' in latest posts, was I wrong to be interested?

[ferlew]

This is a complete strip out daft en-suite, replace with wet room jobbie.
Large pan overhead shower, fabbie flooring going up the wall, flush spotlights.
Secondary shower head on the stalk, (No idea what for).
Seems we are having tile panel thingies, rather than actual tiles.
Wall seat thing, and lord knows what else.
Think I will sleep and eat in there, sounds grand :)

[gness]

Thought I'd pulled and you'd got me off your back, Baldric?....☺

[gness]

Isn't a secondary shower head for your bits?..x

[ferlew]

Errrrrr, pass.

[Buenchico]

>>>replace with wet room jobbie

I hope that's not 'jobbie' in the sense that Billy Connolly uses it, Ferlew!
;-)

[ferlew]

OMG Buenchico, surely not.

[Old_Geezer]

If my sister's recent experience is anything to go by, by the time the plumber has been and gone, they're all wet rooms.

[ferlew]

Day 2, All ceramics out, old shower unit gone, tiles stripped off walls.
New tray in and non slip flooring applied over.
H&C piped in from combi, electric doodabs removed in loft from old shower unit and extractor fan.
Poor MrF is having to have pits and bits washes, as he can't manage over-bath shower in main bathroom.
Pleased with progress so far.

[Tilly2]

I hope it all goes well, ferlew. A lovely new wet room. Yeah!

[ferlew]

It feels so HUUUGE with the cubicle removed.

[Tilly2]

You can dance in there.

[ferlew]

Marble effect floor to ceiling resin panels fitted today, including window reveals.
H & C water piped into shower area, toilet in situ, but not plumbed in.
He gauges the job to be 60% complete, and says that with a couple of later finishes, he could be done by Friday.

[tonyav]

What will be the first song that you sing in the shower then, ferlew ?.