Well, We are *Supposed* to Have Heating By Now

Husband Features and I have had the week off this week, to be flat renovation ACHIEVERS.

Instead, we have been to Bicester Village, I've been to Brighton and Husband Features has watched quite a lot of Red Dwarf.  

Our whole (let's call it) Achievers Plan was centred around us getting a boiler installed on Monday and Tuesday - along with the removal of the cursed immersion tank, the capping of the back boiler in the living room, the flushing of radiators, the removal of a gazillion unnecessary pipes and the connecting of the gas hob.

It is Wednesday (you might know that) and we do not currently have a boiler, and I have become increasinly more suspicious of our Boiler Man, with really no good reason (his sister broke her leg, he had to go to Manchester to help with the kids, so wasn't sure exactly which day he'd make it).  Having let us know he'd be here at 8.30 this morning, he has just turned up at 9.30 (he did let us know by text this morning that he'd be later than planned, but ignore that bit of information to enable me to feel more justified in my suspiciousness, if you please).

Aaaanyway, the big Achievers Plan centred around having the boiler installed at the beginning of the week, followed by productive trips to Ikea to get started on the other half of the kitchen, the tiling of walls, and the overall finishment of the kitchen to a level satisfactory enough for me to be able to whip up some sort of wonderous creation for our work National Baking Week bake off next week.  That is not going to happen. (Finishment is a word.  Honestly.  Look it up.  Ok, don't actually).

We can't plan for the second half of the kitchen until we know how much room the pipes are going to take up.  And more importantly, until we know what sink we're going to have.

Anyway, to top up on the renovation porn, I've taken some photos of random bits and bobs for your viewing pleasure (satisfaction is not guaranteed, I'm afraid).

The original state of the second side of the kitchen:

The second side now:

The lino/vinyl tiles we found under the cupboard (which must have come some time before the lino that's in the first picture).  Husband Features very cleverly removed these tiles with the help of a hairdryer (knew that hairdryer would eventually be useful for something).

Hopefully I will be add a boiler update later today.  More likely tomorrow afternoon.