Our Reno

And, we’re finished. We have two beautiful new bathrooms. The builders (iBuild) have been great – tidied up after themselves, the tradies were always polite and anything that went not-quite-right was fixed immediately. I can’t recommend them enough. The last pieces of the puzzle were: painting the back of the bathroom doors, painting & patching […]

After the hiccup with the leaky pipe, the plumber came in and found the source – yes, the apprentice had drilled through the pipe 🙂  – funny how it’s always the apprentice’s fault!! 🙂 . So by Monday evening we had a hole in the wall in Danny’s “office” and a slowly drying patch of

We left the bathrooms an extra day before we decided to use them. You know, longer for the sealant to set etc. Sunday morning, because we aren’t in our master bedroom yet (we’re getting a new bed), I decided I’d use the main bathroom shower. The results were less than spectacular and we’ve now got

So we’re almost done. The bath was put in the correct place and all the silicone sealing was done (even different coloured sealant for different areas). All that’s left are the last two shaving cabinet mirror doors and the towel rail that was missing from the main bathroom. We were given the go ahead to

Thursday saw the shower screens put in and the bath taken upstairs. The bathrooms were given a clean in preparation for the silicone sealing to be done on Friday. And, we get to walk on our carpets again – the floor protectors have been taken away now. It’s so nice to walk on carpet in

The bath arrived! Wednesday saw the cornices painted in both bathrooms and the patched holes in our spare bedroom wall painted. A few more finishing touches like the towel and hand towel rails, toilet roll holders and the doors on the shaving cabinets were put in place. The bathroom doors were re-hung and now we’re

So, I’ve decided to draw this out a bit … if we have to wait, so can you 🙂 The final week was a little more drawn out than expected because we had to wait for the arrival of the new bath. Monday was simply finalising the electrics and tapware. I do love my niche

This week in the Cole household has been much quieter. The tradies finished the tile grouting, put the appliances in and we’re now waiting on one piece of furniture to be delivered (or re-delivered!). The bath arrived with a crack in it so they’re sending another one 🙁 . No delay to the original timeline

Oh my goodness! How much work have they done in 1 week? They’ve now almost finished the tiling. So, in one week they’ve concreted the floor, done the 2nd round of waterproofing and the tilers came back in on Friday & Saturday and almost finished the tiling. Danny & I piked out for 2 nights

So we’ve made it to the end of the first week. No major dramas but the old adage that once you start fixing one thing, the next thing breaks is very true! The hot water system looks like it’s on it’s way out and then on Friday, Danny turned on the tap at the front