Lie in? What lie-in? Up at 7am this morning to try and make up for the lost time yesterday.

Dom spent the whole day installing the new Grohe cistern and frame, which will be concealed behind tiles. There was a fair bit of fiddly plumbing to do, and a lot of levelling out, compensating for crappy building work and walls that aren't straight.

The Grohe kit itself was as you would expect from German manufacture: every little detail had been well thought out and exquisitely crafted. I think Dom quite enjoyed putting it all together.

The Ideal Standard wall hung pan however, was a different story. It was exactly what we're coming to expect from British manufacturing: shoddy. When we came to put the seat and lid on we found that the screw holes were not even. One went right through the ceramic, while the other was filled in, and it wasn't clear whether you are supposed to knock this out. First the bath leg, now this. Ideal it is not.

Anyway, by 9pm we had a working toilet - a very productive day.

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