My pipe dream turns reality as the tradies start singing from the same sheet

01.07.2022, 02:44 thetimes.co.uk

I really believe that nothing is impossible. A thing is only not possible if you don’t want it to be possible.”

This is a quote from what I have come to term “My Philosophy of the Possibilities of Plumbing” as recited to me last week by The Tiler.

I am standing in our bathroom-in-progress, nodding as The Tiler waxes philosophical in a musical Moldovan accent, pointing at a large waste pipe set into the concrete floor.

“This has to go,” he declares, shaking his head.

A small breakdown in communications meant the waste pipe was laid in the floor and not put into the wall, because it was intended that our vanity unit would cover it anyway. Trouble is, we only went off and bought