Marcus’ Blog

Most of the breaking work is now finished and the debri disposed of. On the pictures below you can see how the utility room is being added to the kitchen.

This is the utility room viewed from the kitchen:

The open part on the right hand side of the utility room will be closed by an aluminium window unit. The floor will be raised to the same level as the kitchen so that it becomes an integral part of the kitchen.

This picture is taken from the utility, so you look back to the kitchen:

The gas heaters (all three of them) have also been taken out, leaving two gaping holes in the bathroom walls. Hong Kong houses generally do not have one central water heating unit, but instead there are small heaters for the kitchen and the bathrooms.
After the renovation we will have a small electric water heater in the kitchen (immediate hot water) and two gas heaters in the bathrooms.

They’ve made a start with painting the inside of the wardrobes. The inside had plain brown ply wood, which didn’t look very nice. Because the wood is so porous and would suck up all paint you put on it, they’ve put a layer of white plaster on it first.