Week 7 - Downstairs cloakroom and utility.

Most of last week was spent doing the "raft" foundation and retaining wall for the downstairs loo and utility room. We solved the change in level problem by putting the raft under the soil pipe rather than on top of it.

Unfortunately we have still lost a bit of the width of these rooms as if we had followed the plan the toilet would have been in the middle of the back path. As it was we had to shave off a few inches off the path to ensure the width was sufficient for the sink and washing machine, provoking a more than a few frowns from our dear neighbours. As Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) once said "The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch..." Keep fighting guys! ;)