Hole in the wall

Sadly, it's not the type that gives you money, since our cowboy builders have struck again!

What should have been a simple job; swapping the medicine cabinet for something more up to date, turned into a nightmare and a gaping hole in the wall.

The existing cabinet had been countersunk into the wall; we thought it would be a simple case of unscrewing it and lifting it out. Wrong.

For whatever reason just like the way they siliconed the old sink to the wall rather than bolting it, they had built it into the wall and used the back of it to close off the hole on the other side (which is the wall in our loo room), rather than leave more of a gap and plasterboard it.

It was only when Mr A started to try and remove the cabinet that we heard a crack and found the plaster on the wall of the loo room had virtually imploded as we'd pulled the cabinet forward! We only had that room plastered and redecorated last year, we are just glad now that we decided to paint rather than paper :-(

It's a structural wall too, so Mr A has been worrying about it collapsing all night, hence the wooden support.

Luckily, only one tile cracked during removal of the cabinet and we have spares, so we can replace it (hopefully) without much more trauma.

So we've gone from fitting a cabinet to:
Bricking up a hole
Plastering the hole
Strip the wallpaper in the bathroom
Replace tile
Full skim of the bathroom
Patch skim of the loo room
Repaint loo room
Paint bathroom

And finally......fit cabinet!