Honeysuckle Bedroom leading to Shower/Toilet
We are nearly finished with updating Honeysuckle Cottage’s Shower/Toilet – one of our peak district cottages. The Shower, toilet and washbasin where updated last year but we never got round to boxing all the pipes and renewing the flooring. Shirley has been nagging me for months to get it finished, so over the last few days I have managed to find time to complete the work . All the pipes etc have now been boxed in and tiled. In addition we have taken the opportunity to replace the old (5 years) floor covering with new vinyl flooring. The vinyl has been in ’stock’ for about two years having been bought to renew Lathkill, Derwent, Dove kitchen floors. We always try and buy rolls of things like carpet and vinyl as it is significantly cheaper and gives us the flexibility to carry out the work when we can. Getting carpet or vinyl off the roll can be a challenge as a new roll is pretty heavy. But two of us seem to manage it without too much trouble. At the moment it is stored up in the top sheds. We keep it off the ground by the use a long pole through the centre of the roll, a couple of breeze blocks either end and some steel rods down the centre of the blocks to stop the roll falling off. Works like a dream and now most of it has gone I can pull off what I need by myself. Fitting vinyl flooring is always nerve racking. You only need to make a small mistake and you write off the piece you are working on. So I am always glad when I have finished. This time in general all went well with only a small mistake in one of the corners (which could be hidden). We just need to silicon round the edges and the job is complete.
We moved to the Peak District in 2003. We now run eight Peak District Cottages just outside Bakewell overlooking Lathkill Dale. The self catering cottages are converted from the original farm buildings and are formed into a courtyard.
