Same old saga - bricks... (23rd - 28 Feb)

Monday 23rd
Shopping day today. Off to Bathroom warehouse, electrical warehouse & Bunnings for plumbing and electrical bits. Mark needs to leave holes in the brick work for the plumbing to go through the wall so we needed to know what we are using. We both fell in love with a 900 x 1200 glass shower with a rounded corner - it will fit perfectly. Well nearly, Mark just needs to move the window over a brick & a half. Luckily he's only laid 2 courses of bricks above the window sill!

Tuesday 24th
I went back & fro between the computer and the bricks...
Mark pulled out the front window bricks to move the window further over. Then he worked out where all the plumbing was going and welded the copper pipe for the shower fixtures.
I knocked off at 3.30pm as I had our first TADA event tonight.

Wednesday 25th
We didn't do much today...just another course or two before we got rained out.

Thursday 26th
Mark pulled the external bricks out from around the front door and I stacked them ready for cleaning. (hrrrr)
Off to Becks Music Box with Jill to see the House of the Holy Afro.

Friday 27th


We decided that the study window should be higher so today we added more bricks to the study wall. We knocked off about 6pm and had dinner with Linda. Then Linda & I went off to the theatre to see The War of the Roses.



Saturday 28th
We both did a big day today cleaning & re-bricking around the front door. Very time consuming as it's a short wall with lots of cuts!

Sunday 1st March
Mark spent 2hours in the morning finishing the last rows of bricks above the front door. He's very happy to finally reach ceiling height somewhere!

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