Moving (Mini) Mountains

 “Clean the bathrooms please!” – the electrician/plumber.

 

When the first floor was cleared to make way for electricity, all the torba had to go somewhere. So, the upstairs bathrooms turned into two giant kitty litters (sans the kitty, thankfully) which then had to be emptied again to prepare for plumbing works.

 

The purpose was two-fold, at least, as it also meant burying the new conduit pipes in the other rooms as a first step for tiling. Additionally, it provided some sense of relief from worrying about constantly stepping on the pipes and damaging them.

 

I thought the process of clearing out the bathrooms would be a two, maybe three, hour job at the most. I started with our bathroom and put on some Linkin Park on Spotify. After the first album finished, I started the second. And then the third. And then my phone battery died. And I still wasn’t done with the first room.

Two and half hours just to stack up these two mounds:

Objects are larger than they appear.

The reason they were in mounds was because I wanted to first obtain clearance from the tiler before I start burying everything. The other bathroom had to wait for another day as the sun began to set. Physically, I was fine though.

 

“Fine”.

 

Thankfully, I did get clearance before starting the other bathroom, because its entrance was barricaded by pipes, and it was so much easier to just start chucking the dirt onto them. Nevertheless, I still had to split the second room over 2 days, but the end result was so satisfying. With the pipes hidden it started to become a lot easier to manoeuvre around the first floor.

Like a baby’s bottom.

 

Returning home each time powdered in white, all Connie could say was I looked like Marv in Home Alone 2.

Official Home Alone Reference Count: 4

 

With the bathrooms now cleared and the common area covered, I can now move on to covering the bedroom floors.