The tiler was due today, but the bathroom tiles were split between the garage in the garden and the boot of the car. I got up early, an hour before I needed to leave for work and thought that’ll be plenty of time to move the tiles upstairs ready for the tiler.

I’m not sure what reasoning I’d applied, but I certainly underestimated the task in hand. Each pack of tiles came in at around 20kg, so suffice to say, I wasn’t going to take more than one box at a time.e

20 trips from the garden and up the stairs later I was thoroughly exhausted. Considerably more than an hour had past and I was now late for work.

Still we had neat piles of wall tiles, brick tiles for the shower, edging tiles and floor tiles all set to go.