Our first week in the house and this is what we accomplished.
I replaced the washer in a leaky bathroom tap and discovered the washer wasn't really the problem, it was a big old crack at the bottom. So new taps needed.
After much chiseling and planing, we managed to get the basement door to close and get a lock on it, so now people can't just wander into our basement (they'll just have to kick the door down).
The bathroom is the worst room in the house, so to improve it slightly until we get enough cash together to do it, we put a shelf and mirror up.
Slightly scarier, we had to cover the holes in the shower lining with the thick plastic that our bed came in.
We also hired a van (an automatic - rubbish on fuel economy but great for 6 point turns outside our house) and picked up the two tables we purchased last weekend. Firstly, a kitchen table,
And secondly, an extender table that had had a little accident and didn't have any legs, which a furniture shop was selling for 10 pounds! One for the future.
We can't take credit for this last piece of work, removing the kitchen walls of 20 years of unventilated kitchen fumes, a nice lady called Cath came and did it for us. She did a great job.
The pictures of the basement door really don't do justice to how much work it was to get it to close - but bearing in mind it didn't move AT ALL beforehand I think we did very well.
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