I can has shower!

[andygates]

Good gods, the shower is finally fitted. After eighteen months of grumbling, wrecking, framing, flooring, plumbing, nogging, tiling and mosty prevaricating, slacking and stalling it's in. There's hot wet coming out of the hot wet end and going down the gurgly end, and tiles anna curtain and everything.

No more pool showers. No more bloody pikey flannel-cleansing arrangements (though come the apocalypse, I'll be smugly keeping beautifully clean on four litres of sun-warmed rainwater, for I has Teh Knack now). Bliss.

Bliss, and that lovely feeling you get when a fettle or a project finally comes together and you can say, "I am in control of my environment! Behold the power I wield! I am a member of a tool-using species capable of planning and executing shit and not just on the bloody internet! Today, basic plumbing facilities! Tomorrow, the World! Bwahaha!"

I really should lay the floor next...

Comments

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Well done you!

And you didn't go for the periodic table shower curtain in the end...

[andygates.livejournal.com]

That's the old one. There's still plenty of time to get all nerdy -- but for now, my mucky carcass and the credit crunch say "waste not, want not, get on with it!"

[fox-uk.livejournal.com]

Procrastinating

[andygates.livejournal.com]

That too.

[fialta.livejournal.com]

Looks cool, well done Andy! Did eighteen months include getting rid of the old shower/bathroom?

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

Very nice. I, myself, resorted to professionals to replace my shower, because my fitness to belong to a tool-wielding species was in doubt.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Yes - this room is underground, and everything was rotten back to the rubber paint which waterproofs the dirt!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

One of the finest tools we ever invented as a species was money. With hindsight, I'd just have thown money at it and gone elsewhere for a week -- but by the time I'd realised that, it was too far in and I'd spent the money on bicycles!

[teahisme.livejournal.com]

I'd finish those walls first. I mean the steam wont do that wood any good >.<

Maybe you can throw money at the rest of the bathroom now?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

This shall be done. Finishing, not throwing money. I kinda turned the money into a pennyfarthing and a Northern Rock mortgage. ;)