Bathroom regrets
Discussion
LaurasOtherHalf said:
A really tricky one...
The toilet in our en suite is the absolute pits. It will not flush away big roll due to the utterly s
t design. Ideal Standard hang your head in shame.
A crap needs two flushes, one to actually get rid of the st and the second to try and get rid of the ball of wet tissue that swirls to the front of the pan due to the way the water flows in.
Every so often a third flush is required.
Apart from that, as said-heated mirror, power socket in cupboard and as much storage as you can squeeze in .
I'd also recommend a towel rail with electric back up so it still works in the summer and some sort of ledge in the shower to put shampoo bottles.
Can you tell me what range of Ideal Standard it was please? My wife is looking at wall hung toilets from them for our new penthouse build project next year and I'd hate to have three loos not flushing properly. The toilet in our en suite is the absolute pits. It will not flush away big roll due to the utterly s
t design. Ideal Standard hang your head in shame.A crap needs two flushes, one to actually get rid of the s
t and the second to try and get rid of the ball of wet tissue that swirls to the front of the pan due to the way the water flows in.Every so often a third flush is required.
Apart from that, as said-heated mirror, power socket in cupboard and as much storage as you can squeeze in .
I'd also recommend a towel rail with electric back up so it still works in the summer and some sort of ledge in the shower to put shampoo bottles.
I'm just writing the list for our penthouse and it includes all of the items mentioned already but don't forget lighting, it's probably the most important thing. Plenty of downlights in the ceiling and lights around the mirror for make up/shaving, oh and if like me your getting old and your eyes don't work as well as they used to put in a well lit and strong magnification mirror for shaving.
p1esk said:
cossy400 said:
UFH
really annoyed to be fair.
Yes, I'd like to have put UFH in our bathroom, but the floor is concrete so I can't put in the wet system that I would have wanted, and I won't use an electric system, so I've given up on it and settled for a decent sized radiator.really annoyed to be fair.
TeeRev said:
Can you tell me what range of Ideal Standard it was please?
I can't as I didn't instal it, came with the house.When I refit the ensuite, or take a sledgehammer to the f
king thing out of sheer frustration (whichever comes first) I'll be fitting one of these;https://youtu.be/4LhzuG9vMjg
Heres Johnny said:
Must have a decent water flow for a shower. If you have good mains pressure go pressurised system over a pump, didn't do that on my first house, did on the second.
Don't by a cheap shower tray, have one in the guest bathroom that flexes as you walk on it, feels rubbish.
We're having a loft conversion done soon so I'm looking into stuff for the en-suite. What kind of show tray should I be looking for? Something like this?Don't by a cheap shower tray, have one in the guest bathroom that flexes as you walk on it, feels rubbish.
Are there any brands to look at/avoid in general? I don't want to go cheap but I don't want to break the bank either. Is Victoria Plum stuff generally decent enough?
tvrforever said:
fatboy b said:
wolfracesonic said:
Heated bathroom mirror.
This. 
I had one from here
https://www.illuminated-mirrors.uk.com/bathroom-ca...
Quality is absolutely spot on. It has an ambient light that is switched on by passing your hand near the bottom of the cabinet. This also switches on the demist pad.
I also had one off eBay for less than half the price. Nowhere near as good quality, no ambient light and you have to switch the demist pad on separately.
I wouldn't buy the eBay version again.
https://www.illuminated-mirrors.uk.com/bathroom-ca...
Quality is absolutely spot on. It has an ambient light that is switched on by passing your hand near the bottom of the cabinet. This also switches on the demist pad.
I also had one off eBay for less than half the price. Nowhere near as good quality, no ambient light and you have to switch the demist pad on separately.
I wouldn't buy the eBay version again.
Underfloor heating mats? Yep
Heated mirror? Yep
Thing to wash my bum in? Yep.
Heated towel rail? Yes.
It is the most perfect and well thought out room in the house apart from:
No uncoupling mat on floor (tiles cracked).
Walk in shower on a timber upper floor? Not a good idea.
Depending on heated towel rail to warm bathroom enough in Winter, not a good idea either. Although the heated floor does do it I wish I'd put a rad in too.
Heated mirror? Yep
Thing to wash my bum in? Yep.
Heated towel rail? Yes.
It is the most perfect and well thought out room in the house apart from:
No uncoupling mat on floor (tiles cracked).
Walk in shower on a timber upper floor? Not a good idea.
Depending on heated towel rail to warm bathroom enough in Winter, not a good idea either. Although the heated floor does do it I wish I'd put a rad in too.
p1esk said:
Yes, I'd like to have put UFH in our bathroom, but the floor is concrete so I can't put in the wet system that I would have wanted, and I won't use an electric system, so I've given up on it and settled for a decent sized radiator.
Electric UFH is not the same as a radiator - the UFH heats your feet to around 25-30 degrees, so no need for a radiator. Doesn't cost much to run if you use a timer to heat only when you use the bathroom, and as you have to, err, ventilate bathrooms frequently, you are not sending the central heating heat from the radiator (water heated to 60+degrees) out of the house. Add a towel rail (again on a timer) and you have a much more comfortable bathroom that doesn't cost the earth to heat. We also have a 2.4KW fan heater that we use in the depths of winter - it only needs to be on for 2-5 minutes to heat the entire bathroom to 20 degrees.227bhp said:
Walk in shower on a timber upper floor? Not a good idea.
Depending on heated towel rail to warm bathroom enough in Winter, not a good idea either. Although the heated floor does do it I wish I'd put a rad in too.
These two work if you use a proper walk-in shower tray (showerlay or similar - not cheap, but very rigid), rather than relying on the builder to properly board the floor, and if you use a radiator/towel rail combo. Ours work fine this way.Depending on heated towel rail to warm bathroom enough in Winter, not a good idea either. Although the heated floor does do it I wish I'd put a rad in too.
We installed electric underfloor heating in all of our bathrooms, and really barely used it last winter. In the new houseew house we are (for cost and aesthetic reasons) keeping the wood floors, but draughtproofed and sealed with pine slivers before sanding, sealing and painting with oil based floor paint. Shower trays will be walk-ins using tiles showerlays and big glass screens. There still will have to be a slightly raised water barrier around the shower tray. A low rise white shower tray would have done this job as they are designed for it, but we wanted the aesthetic of tiled shower enclosures (walls and floors)
Heating will be from those Victorian style radiator/towel rail things (big bathrooms will have a big vertical rad instead).
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