Three twenty seven

Today is the third day out of four that I woke up at precisely 03h27 (3:27am). I know because I have a digital clock next to the bed. On the two mornings prior, I woke up at 03h33. There's nothing that I can identify that would wake me up at the same time so early in the morning. The heating system does not come on then, I can't hear trains in the valley with the windows closed. It's a mystery.

The frame around the shower door was supposed to be stainless/silver, but the plumber ordered the wrong color, so we got white. Re-ordering would have taken more than two months. He agreed to a discount if we accepted the white.

The new shower is basically done. The plumbing contractor packed up his tools and did a little clean-up yesterday. There's still some touch-up painting to be done by the tile guy, probably about ten minutes work. I spent a couple of hours washing down the old tile walls, the fixtures, and the floor. There was a lot of plaster dust. I also washed the windows. Today we will each use the shower for the first time. We're slowly getting moved back into the bathroom. Since there's a little less wall space than before, we have to make some decisions about storage and we're considering the options.

The "old" pre-fab shower. It was new in 2005.

So here is the "before" photo (above). The pre-fab unit was 90cm x 90cm with a quarter-round corner cut out of it where the door was, and the seat took up some of the interior space. The new shower is 100cm x 100cm plus the bench, which adds another 26cm on one side, so there's more maneuvering room in there. I'll let you know how it feels.