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The final thing the builders did was put a new piece of plasterboard in at the top of the stairs, as before it looked like this because the old tenant upstairs had let the bath overflow:
They also ripped off the old plasterboard on the wall opposite this and painted the bare brick, which looks much nicer.
After they did that they got a corrupt gas fitter to move the gas meter onto this wall, as before you were greeted with it in front of you when you opened the cellar door and it was kinda in the way.
The official way to do is to pay the gas board £800 or £900 and they cut off the gas to the whole street in the middle of the night. So obviously nobody does this, they do it 'live' instead. I did make sure I was at least four miles away that day though..!