When I called to the bungalow with Alan's lunch yesterday he had just finished grouting the bathroom tiles, and the pipes had all been boxed in by the joiner.
This was yesterday, but already by today the actual shower fittings have been attached to the wall and all the excess grout had been cleaned off. He has now moved on to undercoating all the woodwork. The joiner is hopefully on his final day, and is doing the skirting boards, door frame and loft hatch frame in the main room
Alan has worked so hard this year he is now on to using up a third pair of his older jeans as work jeans, his last two pairs ripped right through at the knees, and while it might be quite fashionable to have ripped jeans, working in them is very uncomfortable. I did suggest selling them on Vinted as 'authentically made ripped jeans' but we decided against it owing to them also being rigid with plaster dust. 😄
After seeing the state of his boots yesterday I suggested he bought himself a new pair while he was at the building supplies shop, so he did.
Now he has a pair of brown boots that make his feet look considerably smaller and are vaguely reminiscent of Bob the Builder.
Sue xx
I wonder if his knees will ever forgive him after all they've been put through this year?! New boots are the least he deserves :)
ReplyDeleteHe's hoping they will. :-)
DeleteThey do seem to get better after each weekend, and now that he's onto more upright work they won't be as bad ... he's just got half the main room floor tiles to grout and then it should be mostly upright work.
Can he fix it??? Yes he can!!!
ReplyDeleteHaha ... very good. He seems to be able to. :-)
DeleteLoved Angela’s comment 🤣 June
ReplyDeleteAngela is a bit of a quick thinking wordsmith isn't she. :-)
DeleteAre the new boots suitable for garden work? It seems that, thankfully, the work in the bungalow is very nearly at an end.
ReplyDeleteI love the look of those tiles but I would have to have the waterproof wall board equivalent. My days of scrubbing grout are well and truly behind me. 🤨
This is what made him listen to me and invest in new boots!! He wanted to make the pictured pair last for the final month of renovations, and then I reminded him that he wants to do the garden himself, including brick laying and that another pair of steel toecaps might be a good idea. For once he actually listened.
DeleteIt’s lovely to see little snippets of work completed and Alan certainly deserved new boots! Catriona
ReplyDeleteThey were very necessary, he is already feeling the benefit of his snug new boots. :-)
DeleteI've never seen steel toe cap boots worn right through to the steel!
ReplyDeleteI'm agreeing with Jane above - shower wall board is easy - although there are tiles where I'm moving too - Oh dear.
I guess not many steel toe cap boot wearers crawl around on floors grouting every day for weeks. :-)
DeleteI really dislike shower wallboard after a friend in Wales found a lot of mould behind hers, and they had only installed it a couple of years earlier. Alan loves tiling and grouting, so that made the decision for us. His tiles are completely different from my choice, a lot bigger and heavier so we'll see how much he likes them once they are done.
Is the answer to tiles grey grout???
ReplyDeleteYour Alan is amazing.
Well, my grout is fawn coloured so I don't know! I was in two minds what colour grout to pick and almost went for white, but now that this fawny colour is in place it matches the floor tiles perfectly, so it was a good decision.
DeleteOh well done to Alan. He's certainly earned some new boots.....and perhaps a new pair of jeans too!
ReplyDeleteAngie
He's got a lot of pairs of jeans, but no more that are quite worn enough to be relegated to 'work jeans' yet. But hopefully by the time the garden is being done, another pair may have slipped into this category, and he usually gets new underwear and jeans in the M&S January sales.
DeleteWell done Alan, he’s a trooper isn’t he?
ReplyDeleteI dislike that tile board stuff too, even though proper tiles are a little harder to keep clean.
Alison in Devon x
He's worked so hard over the last ten months and really enjoyed it, but he's glad the finish line is in sight now. I booked a little holiday treat for us for just after we move in. He needs some pampering. ❤️
DeleteYour new bathroom looks very swish!!
ReplyDeleteYes, it's coming together beautifully. I should thank the designer ... me. ;-)
DeleteYou know it's been a good home improvement day when your clothes go into the trash at the end of the day. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's a very satisfying feeling throwing worn out work clothes away isn't it. 😀
DeleteAfter a big paint job, I end up throwing away my paint clothes. Too stiff to even wash!
ReplyDeleteIt's good to keep your oldest clothes for decorating etc and then not have to worry about throwing them away isn't it. 😀
DeleteSome of Harvey's work pants were patched by me so many times that one couldn't see really where the patches began and the pants really were. Glad I don't have to do that quite as much now.
ReplyDeleteYep, I would say Alan definitely needed new boots.
God bless.
Yes, you can only patch so many times can't you. 😄 He's loving his new boots.
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