Of course nothing happened over the Christmas holidays, and things were slow to start in the new year. The first week back, the plumber was mostly working on his own, getting more pipes in place both for water supply and heating:

The loft bathroom pipes:

When none of the builders are at the house, the kitchen extension area is now inaccessible to us, with the door from the main part of the house nailed shut and the rear boarded up for security reasons. But when I came on Saturday at the end of week 31, the builders were still there. The main changes are again the pipes:

The first and second floor bathrooms had been plasterboarded this week:

The unpleasant mess of plumbing that had been hiding in the wardrobe of the second bedroom is now gone:

And finally, the first bedroom, some of the pipes for the radiators: