Descent

Well, the builders have descended. They’ve mostly finished upstairs and handed over to the plumber, electrician, painters, tiler and whoever else turns up (I think there were 9 people working at one point). Meanwhile they have turned their attention to our current living quarters. I’ll talk about some of what they’ve been doing in a later post. But today its the stairs.

We were always told that the builders would keep to themselves upstairs and one day a hole would appear in the ceiling and the stairs would be installed. So the hole has indeed appeared and this was accompanied with the complete gutting of our bathroom – which has literally vanished in the space of a day, just leaving brickwork.

Ex-bathroom (looking down)

Ex-bathroom (looking down)

There’s a gap between the floor and the ceiling which is a known hangout of a local rodent so Rozita has been worried that it will descend to the ground floor. Maybe it has already, maybe it hasn’t… Anyway we’re down to one toilet/shower now so you can imagine the extra family stress in the mornings. We almost had to send Kayvon out to use a tree this morning…

This is what it looked like a few days ago:

Original bathroom

Within a couple of days the builders added gyproc to fix up the walls. In these pictures you are looking upwards from the old bathroom through the hole in the upper floor. In the top left you can see the corridor jutting out with ends of the timber floor poking over the edge.

Straight up

Hallway jutting out

Apparently the stairs should be ready in early February. So I guess we’ll move up shortly after that. So the next three weeks should be interesting…