18th Sept Fri: The end of the utility room

Some important telephonic discussion, hail The Stella King
The old tap was leaking and dripping under the sink, where it'd be a total mess after a few warm weeks, nevermind years. Out she had to come, but not without a fight, the sucker was rusted tight on there. I even went the expense of buying a new set of spanners to snap it loose

The new one. Design aside m'ere, this was the most buget tap they had. But it works great and was easy enough to fit. It probably took around an hour or more to get the old one out and about ten minutes to fit the new one

Here it is on medium power, on full power it's mighty jet splasheth water everywhere, being weird directly over the water main with 25mm pipe 'n all... (edit: that spelling of wired reminds me of my plastering teacher, who pronounced mark, as in to mark the position of something, as m'erk. And little as lickle. Lickle m'erk :)

Wow, great picture hey... I could have just taken a photo of the garden and cropped that square into existence. But it's the board I'm going to cover the undersink area with. Leaving it exposed, it's just a mess. And I know my family will use it to stash everything not very important for decades in an even bigger mess. I had to pay good dollar to get this custom ripped out of a big 4ft by 8ft board. Now I need some uses for the off-cuts

Here it is, the finished result. I wired up the washer. Then ran some 2.5mm T&E behind the sink to the spot where the dryer will go, so there's a socket there, then ran it across the PVC door on the right and down the wall for another socket, where a chest freezer will live. I also ran some alarm cable to the PVC door and wired up a sensor to deter unwanted stuff borrowers (the borrowers piss me off, and they're only fictional, real world ones are only worse). Note how the grey, white, blue and brown beautifully merge for that 80's south US look. I like it. If only I'd managed to squeeze an orange in there it'd be pro. Now I just need the dryer and chester freezer to turn up. The only other things are a.) core drill a hole under the shelves for the water main to go through to the other section of the garage and b.) hook the sparky mains up permanently. Neither of these two are worth doing right now since I need the boiler in place on the other side of the left hand wall and to know dead on where I'll be pulling the electrical conduction circuit thingy m'eh jigy into the garage

Mum added some flowers. Zero practical function, but I think it brings things together with the gigantic box of DAZ