I think it was hiding under the carpet. Anyhow, positivity got me into the fracking cold bathroom, fan heater enabled and pointed at the still tacky radiator. It’s still tacky, but there was considerable fumeage as it heated up. I peeled off the masking tape to reveal the tiles which look shockingly respectable; finished cleaning the shower stall and washed the tiles around the edge, and the basin of the shower with white spirit to try and get the grease off in the hope that the silicone will stick this time. It’s stuck along the front edge, which gives me some hope. I then polished the tiles outside the shower on the corner, and all the way round where I’ve put the top bit of grout in.
Definately coming on, it is. I did a teeny bit of scooping up the crap, then prepped one of the last areas that’s not yet grouted and….grouted it :) That took much of the afternoon; but now there’s only small areas by the sink and some of the boxing left to do, oh and the strip right by the door, because the paint wasn’t really hard enough and it needs another coat.
Then, because I wasn’t done being productive I stripped the cupboard out of the downstairs bathroom. This cupboard hid the waterheater (well, it did until I took the door off to put the temporary link in to the upstairs bathroom, then it just surrounded the waterheater) and other than mouldering away slowly hasn’t really been doing much else. Oh, it hung the moose, too.
Anyway, with somewhat of a battle it’s been removed. See, blokie blokie assembled it, then put it in, then tiled. Which was fine, except that I’ve run a pipe through what was an appature, and suddenly found I had a giant frame around my pipe which I couldn’t easily disassemble (or move far enough to get to the screws to disassemble it). In the end I applied brute force (and ignorance) and “it came apart in my hands, guv”. Some of the better bits have been salvaged in case they’re handy for the temporary kitchen. The rest has gone in the front garden pile of rubbish.
After a lot of sweeping up, the bathroom downstairs actually looks lots bigger. And it’s now possible to run the heating and hot water pipes where they should go, at least it will be when I’ve taken a small chunk of wall out. Hopefully soon the radiator will dry, so I can cut the pipes and fit the damn thing, it’s terribly frustrating at the moment :-/
