First job this morning was to get the new bath in place so Dom could accurately measure up the boxed-out area at the tap end of the bath where the shower pipes were going to be hidden.

Bath was carefully removed from packaging, legs unscrewed from their packaging position, plastic housing for legs screwed into wooden frame, metal leg put into housing at tap end of bath, metal leg put into housing at bottom end of bath… wait a minute, leg has been pushed in as far as it will go and screw hole in leg does not line up with screw hole in plastic housing, therefore screw cannot be secured and leg is useless.

Cue lots of swearing.

We’ll have to ring the bathroom showroom first thing tomorrow and they’ll probably refer us to Ideal Standard. What a shower.

Anyway, not wanting to be held back Dom carried on regardless and started building the boxed-out frame. First he needed to move the bath pipes to the side so he could get the frame in position and re-plumb them so they could still be used for the shower.

Then he started constructing the frame.

So far so good.

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