And even though I’m allowed to pi … errr … push off early because tomorrow is Saturday, “early” was something like 19:30.
I don’t know why it is, but even though I’m working from about 12:00 until knocking-off, with a break for lunch, I don’t feel like I’m wasting any time at all.
It’s still taking forever to advance and I feel that I ought to be going twice as quickly as I am.
This afternoon’s work involved fixing in the air pipe from the inside, trimming it back and fitting the bell housing. You may wonder why I’m fitting a bell housing, but the answer to that is that the smallest bathroom ventilator fan that I could find has a 125mm diameter, whereas a length of 125mm pipe wouldn’t fit down the hole that I made in the wall. The bell-housing will have to be cut back too but not until the tiling is done – it needs to be cut flush with the tiling.
From there, I fitted all of the space blanket insulation to the bathroom wall and then fitted all of the counter-battening to hold it in place and to make the air-gap.
Next task was to cut a length of plasterboard to fit in the corner over where the pipes are, drilling out some holes so that the pipes will pass through and into the room.
That took ages to do but, much to my surprise, the smaller pipe fitted perfectly through the hole with no juggling about at all, and the larger one would have done too had I cut it to the correct diameter.
But still, that’s now on, fitted, and screwed into position.
Final job was to run the wiring into the correct position along the ceiling and down the far wall.
That means now that I just need to cut 4 pieces of plasterboard, disconnect and then reconnect the wiring, fit the shower base and build the false wall that will be up against the shower base.
Doing that, I will have done all that I wanted to do, and I can measure up for the tiles.
Mind you, at this rate, it’ll take another 3 months, I reckon. I just don’t know where the time goes to.
