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mitchy at 12:20am on 18/07/2012 under new bathroom july 2012
mitchy at 12:20am on 18/07/2012 under new bathroom july 2012*falls over into a heap* Bed in a minute but just got time to rattle out a quick description of my day.
It started with me lugging six heavy boxes of tiles out of the car and into the flat - should have done it last night but kept procrastinating until I forgot. 'm good at that :P
Scampered into work, planning to return home around 1.15pm, because the household rubbish removal chaps (HRRC) would be coming around 1 and I needed to be at the flat to pay them. Got a call at 12 saying "Hi! It's the HRRC, we'll be there in half an hour, is that ok?" Argle. Fortunately I'd warned my lovely colleagues at work that today could involve multiple phone calls and panicked rushing. I dashed off a quick text to Hattie the Wonder Plumber warning her of the incoming, and got an equally frantic text back saying she thought they were coming tomorrow and oops, she'd best remove the toilet and basin in 30 minutes!
(I DID tell her it was today, I even wrote it down!)
I hadn't even got out of work's car park when I got another call, this time from the bathroom delivery guys, saying they'd be there in 10 minutes. Of course they would. Because even though they had a 4 hour window for delivery, they would naturally arrive at the same time as the HRRC *headdesks* (It's hysterical isn't it? If you NEED two separate sets of British workmen to be at a place at such and such a time, you wouldn't be able to arrange it for love or money. But DON'T try and arrange it that way and.....)
Anyway, I got home just as the bathroom delivery chaps were wrangling the bath into the flat (did a good job), signed for the goods and spent five minutes apologising to the cat who was cowering behind a chair. HIS lounge now had several large boxes and one large bath in it that were brought in by STRANGE PERSONS and he WASN'T PLEASED.
HRRC turned up not ten minutes later and made all the rubble and old bathroom suite go away. Hurrah!
And then I made sure Hattie was ok - she'd started putting up the tiles and they looked FAB! - and scampered back to work.
Got another call from Hattie around 2pm...she'd just opened the second box of tiles and, umm, it seemed that the box she used was the wrong colour. It was the only one out of the six. And naturally, those were the tiles currently on the wall. We both mutally sobbed into keyboard/phone, and she agreed the only option was to take the tiles off and ditch them, and use the five good boxes. Happily, it looks as if she was able to recover superbly because the tiles are all up and are looking fantastic :D
Went straight to B&Q after work to pick up the bath and basin taps I'd ordered. Also bought a bath screen, a new light, a new mirror and some bits and bobs. Getting the bath screen into the car was the sort of exercise that made me glad that I had some upper body strength and years of experience playing Tetris :P Came home, unloaded everything, got changed, went back out to Morrison's and bought bread for lunchtime sarnies and something for dinner. Scored big at the hot meat counter, got a ham shank and a small roast belly pork for 99p each :D Toddled home and realised I'd forgotton the milk which was the prime reason I'd gone out. *facepalms* Ah well, I'll get it on the way in tomorrow. I want to get in early because I want to see if County Hall still has showers and if so, I'm going to use 'em :P
The rest of the evening consisted of collapsing onto the sofa and staying there. And in a minute, 'm going to go and commune with my duvet :)
It started with me lugging six heavy boxes of tiles out of the car and into the flat - should have done it last night but kept procrastinating until I forgot. 'm good at that :P
Scampered into work, planning to return home around 1.15pm, because the household rubbish removal chaps (HRRC) would be coming around 1 and I needed to be at the flat to pay them. Got a call at 12 saying "Hi! It's the HRRC, we'll be there in half an hour, is that ok?" Argle. Fortunately I'd warned my lovely colleagues at work that today could involve multiple phone calls and panicked rushing. I dashed off a quick text to Hattie the Wonder Plumber warning her of the incoming, and got an equally frantic text back saying she thought they were coming tomorrow and oops, she'd best remove the toilet and basin in 30 minutes!
(I DID tell her it was today, I even wrote it down!)
I hadn't even got out of work's car park when I got another call, this time from the bathroom delivery guys, saying they'd be there in 10 minutes. Of course they would. Because even though they had a 4 hour window for delivery, they would naturally arrive at the same time as the HRRC *headdesks* (It's hysterical isn't it? If you NEED two separate sets of British workmen to be at a place at such and such a time, you wouldn't be able to arrange it for love or money. But DON'T try and arrange it that way and.....)
Anyway, I got home just as the bathroom delivery chaps were wrangling the bath into the flat (did a good job), signed for the goods and spent five minutes apologising to the cat who was cowering behind a chair. HIS lounge now had several large boxes and one large bath in it that were brought in by STRANGE PERSONS and he WASN'T PLEASED.
HRRC turned up not ten minutes later and made all the rubble and old bathroom suite go away. Hurrah!
And then I made sure Hattie was ok - she'd started putting up the tiles and they looked FAB! - and scampered back to work.
Got another call from Hattie around 2pm...she'd just opened the second box of tiles and, umm, it seemed that the box she used was the wrong colour. It was the only one out of the six. And naturally, those were the tiles currently on the wall. We both mutally sobbed into keyboard/phone, and she agreed the only option was to take the tiles off and ditch them, and use the five good boxes. Happily, it looks as if she was able to recover superbly because the tiles are all up and are looking fantastic :D
Went straight to B&Q after work to pick up the bath and basin taps I'd ordered. Also bought a bath screen, a new light, a new mirror and some bits and bobs. Getting the bath screen into the car was the sort of exercise that made me glad that I had some upper body strength and years of experience playing Tetris :P Came home, unloaded everything, got changed, went back out to Morrison's and bought bread for lunchtime sarnies and something for dinner. Scored big at the hot meat counter, got a ham shank and a small roast belly pork for 99p each :D Toddled home and realised I'd forgotton the milk which was the prime reason I'd gone out. *facepalms* Ah well, I'll get it on the way in tomorrow. I want to get in early because I want to see if County Hall still has showers and if so, I'm going to use 'em :P
The rest of the evening consisted of collapsing onto the sofa and staying there. And in a minute, 'm going to go and commune with my duvet :)
tired
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