Issues included:
1. Tiles falling off the bath, and bath no longer needed. When I am well I don't want a bath and when I am not well I can't get in and out. It was also a deep, cast iron bath that took ages to even get a 4" deep bath and it cooled off so quickly I'd freeze and have to get out. No soaking in a warm bath. The bath is going down to Underhill as a winter bath with a fire under it.
2. The window sills were so narrow it was difficult to sit my pot plants on them and it is difficult to find narrow pots.
3. The cupboard between the windows gets very hot in summer (no good for medications) and the door would not close.
4. The shower had a hob which I found awkward when I returned from my hip replacement and the wall of the shower meant it was always very dark, even when the light was on.
5. The tiles in the shower were damp behind and needed replacing and some were even very loose. I had had some glued back on some years ago.
6. The tiny cupboard set into the wall behind the toilet was awkward to get to and was built into a sconce in the single brick wall. But the toilet was fine.
7. The floor tiles, although individually laid, did not extend under the bath or shower hob and wall so would need to be replaced if I did anything.
8. All the wall tiles were minutely crazed and also did not extend behind the bath or the shower hob.
9. My friend Margaret (now 93) always regretted not putting a new carpet in her home when it was needed. When she finally left her home 20 years later she said she should have done it and her wise words were basically "if it needs doing, do it now, otherwise it will be too late". So I did.
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