Water....

After hours of looking at the situation, we now have cold water in the rear bathroom sink and the outside tap. The problem is that when the building was boarded up for 7 years, squatters and theives have been frequenting the place. They took all of the external copper pipe from the outside of the building, and as we have discovered yesterday, all of the copper pipe from the inside of the building as well, including the roof cavity. This is where a lot of the feeds for water were located, so the plumbers have had to pick up on the broken tails of pipe that have been left, and try to work out which feed they belong to (hot or cold) and where they actually go. Such a time consuming venture, but they are getting there. The new hot water service should be in next week, and we should have everything all sorted out by Wednesday at the latest.

Water at last!

Vic and Ken were busy all day cutting an old vine out of the cast iron fencing at the front of the building, and Vic was at it again with the disc grinder, rotary brushing all of the old paint off the cast iron work there. It will look beautiful when its all done and repainted for sure.

Ken and Vic attack the front fence

The plasterers are doing an amazing job, and I will put more pictures up of that all later tomorrow. I have to go back there over the weekend to remove some electrical fittings in the kitchen (with the power off..) to enable them to continue the work they are doing in there too. Suffice to say they have been working their butts off non stop, and the results are awesome. 

We have a sparky organised to get halogen down-lighting in all the bedrooms, dining room, office, lounge, rear counselling rooms and corridors. That will give the place a far better feel than is happening currently with fluoro lighting every where. It feels a little institution like at the moment, and we need to get to a fresh, modern and most importantly, homely feel.