Days 5 & 6 - pipes and showers

I didn't have quite enough holiday days left to have the whole week off (even though we can technically have as much time off as we want) so was working on Thursday... which meant I went in to the office and took advantage of the shower there. I felt a little bit bad for everyone else, but not that bad...

In the meantime, Dave spent the day soldering the copper together and laying the drainage pipes for the basin and shower. He also retrieved the basin pedestal and realised the basin taps' plumbing needed to splay out a bit, so redid them.
Friday was all about fixing the shower controls in the right place (building out from the existing wall) and making sure all those were water tight. There was a bit of re-jigging on the shower pipework and once that was done, the replacement for what "Boss White" used to be called most certainly didn't cut the mustard. After applying a toothbrush to the Boss White gunk, Dave reverted to the trusty PTFE tape to a much more satisfactory conclusion.
After holding and moving things earlier in the day, I turned my attention to the Virgin Hub 5 replacement that should give us Gigabyte broadband, I started at 10 past 3 and it's currently 10 past 8 and Dave is still on the phone to Virgin trying to cancel the landline that doesn't work with our new package... Enough to say that at least we got to talk to some human beings at Virgin who (I think) resolved our issues...

...so we thought. The laptop was connected via the VM wifi, my phone was working on Dragonet and Dave's wired connection was OK, but Abby's wired connection decided to drop out and her phone wouldn't connect to anything. Once Tomas got home, we found that his phone would connect to VM  but the signal was so low in his room to be useless, and his wired wasn't working which was very weird because other wired devices from the same hub were OK. Decided to sleep on it, having had quite enough of being the network administrator by now.
Update: Everything appears to be OK now (laptop now on Dragonet and Tomas reports all is well; Alexa works and the Blink cameras are back online) though we're yet to hear from Abby on this fine Saturday morning. Update on the update: had to troubleshoot Abby's network card, but all is OK now. Both the printers are working (the Phaser needed a restart) - I think we're done.