Bathroom - tiling and wireless shower

[Tuna]

Rather than posting these pics to two threads, here's our nearly finished bathroom. I had my first shower in it over the weekend and it was excellent. The digital bath filler controls the temperature regardless of changes in the hot water supply, and fills the bath to a set level with a single button press. I did all the tiling, we've still got to paint the walls and fit some flooring.



You can see the controller, then below it the diverter to switch between bath and shower, then below that the overflow filler in the bath.

and for completeness, here's the view the other way for the toilet and sink



the observant will note that the sink currently drains into a bucket - I was one connector short of a set (not for the first time!), so had to make something up for the weekend. All in all I'm pretty pleased with the results.

[whirligig]

Looks great!

I'm not entirely convinced of these counter top sinks though - I do think they look good from a style point of view but I have visions of the kids making an awful mess splashing when brushing their teeth etc. Did you deliberately go for a bath with shower over or was it down to a lack of space for having a separate shower enclosure. We are about to embark on a new bathroom so are considering all options at the moment - love the idea of the auto filling bath. How easy did you find the tiling - it looks immaculate!

So has the self-build been stressful or not too bad - we have a small plot in the Highlands that we hope to build on one day, so always interested to hear about folk's experiences.

[Simpo Two]

Looks good. Wish they'd had automatic bath fillers when I was doing my bathroom five years ago.

[Tuna]

whirligig said:

Looks great!

I'm not entirely convinced of these counter top sinks though - I do think they look good from a style point of view but I have visions of the kids making an awful mess splashing when brushing their teeth etc. Did you deliberately go for a bath with shower over or was it down to a lack of space for having a separate shower enclosure. We are about to embark on a new bathroom so are considering all options at the moment - love the idea of the auto filling bath. How easy did you find the tiling - it looks immaculate!

So has the self-build been stressful or not too bad - we have a small plot in the Highlands that we hope to build on one day, so always interested to hear about folk's experiences.

The way we figure it, the counter top sink can't be any worse than inset ones - the kids manage to spread water everywhere regardless.

This is the kids' bathroom, so we didn't feel we needed a separate shower - the shower head is more for washing shampoo off than anything else. We have a 'proper' shower room and one for guests to use.

The tiling was not too bad - I didn't rush and made sure I'd laid everything out before trying to line it all up. It helped to borrow a professional tile cutter and bench saw to do the angles and odd cuts.

The self build itself has been very rewarding, but quite stressful at times. The biggest source of stress is the pressure to finish it all off and move in - just as we are deluged in a huge number of fiddly little jobs to sort out. It seems to ramp up during the build, so there's more to co-ordinate and organise as you get further into the project. In that sense, it's a question of stamina, and with two kids and a job to hold down we've just about survived. The end result is just fantastic though, so give us a few months to forget the pain and we'll be very happy indeed.

[Simpo Two]

The bit I found hardest to plan was the order of things. Sometimes it seemed that A depended on B, but B also depended on A. In the end I started at one side of the door and worked my round item by item, so the room was never without more than one thing at a time.