Scant progress yesterday. I just moved a few things around, and looked at the diverter valve and tried to figure out how I would fit it.

I’m faced with the choice of trying to fit it into the wall and “making good” over the face of it, or of removing the plasterboard from wall1 and going for a clean slate. I’m trying to resist more stripping down but this might be another case of the “hard way” and the “harder way”. i.e. stripping down and starting over may prove to be a larger volume of easier work rather than a smaller volume of stressful, intense, and error-prone work.

It’s also getting high time to decide about the tiles, and what finish I want on the floor. This is a tricky one because if I go too posh with the walls then any cheap floor is going to stick out like a sore thumb… so I have to hold back on the bling when it comes to the walls. Tiling the floor properly would involve removing the subfloor and adding reinforcement to the joists, or it’ll be too flexible.  Decisions decisions…