And how are your waterworks?

It has been a while since I have posted. Mostly because we had our very good friends coming and we were on a bit of a deadline to try and get toilets in for both rooms.

I have loads to show you.

The doorway we made in the upstairs as an entrance to the bedroom having walked through a little entrance hall was made. I stared at it for a while and said to Phil - why don't we just knock it all open to create one huge room. So we did. Photo 1 shows doorway on right as entrance and photo 2 shows the whole space opened up. This one also has the stud partition up and behind it will be the ensuite shower room for this bedroom. 

Phil did it - he managed to get a working toilet to each bedroom. The work was incredible. I was taking huge rubble sacks out and Phil was doing the plumbing. The pipes had to come through a wall about 2 feet thick, which he did by chipping away and taking stones out bit by bit.

Pipes come through the huge wall

Whilst he was doing this I was cleaning up, scrubbing floors, getting polish on all the wooden bits as they were in a real state. 

I had done some painting, although not all, just enough to brighten up a bit and after Phil had finished the plumbing he started painting too.

Then we had to bring beds in and make up. A modesty curtain was added to the entrance to each toilet (green curtain in photos). No door frames so friends had to be a bit careful entering. Then we had to make sure there was power to each room as old stuff had been removed.

Of course our friends had seen the work in progress and felt they really knew the property when they got here. I had pulled the commode that we found out of the second house and we told our friends we didn't manage to get the toilette plumbed in and they could use the hole of an outside loo or the commode. Not one if them flinched would you believe. A sign of true friendship.

Sadly we have had to lose the diamond internal window downstairs which has now been filled in but found 2 more layers of wallpaper below when stripping what will be the downstairs en suite.

The blue stuff left dye in my hands for days and the little pomegranate paper underneath must have been quite old as the wiring was on top of it.

In addition we also pulled out 4 layers of lino from what will be the kitchen and scrubbed the concrete and cobble floor before returning one small layer of lino. 

Phil screwed in a wine rack to the wall which was sprayed black back in March and was a find in the second house. It will take 100 bottles of wine and is depleted so if you're passing.......

Some more photos here so you can see our progress.

 
And whilst it has looked like all work we had a fantastic couple of days with our wonderful friends.

We explored Nanteuil and had a walk to the windmill and visited Chez David, whom they had heard so much about and also had a great evening at L'Etoile D'Or. More of the environs very soon.