Bathroom rebuild diary, pic heavy. Possibly a bit boring!
Discussion
Having lived in our new house for eighteen months it was high time, we made a start on one of many major projects to come.
It's a 1950's ex MOD property, which has never been privately owned before. Up until now it has been maintained by various MOD contractors, but never had any TLC or real money spent on it, so everything is quite dated.
Pics from before, as you can see the bathroom and toilet are split into two rooms next to one another.
Toilet. Prior to starting we had already had the old Radiator removed from the wall splitting the two rooms, and the new radiator fitted to the toilet wall(new outer bathroom wall), so the existing wall can come down.
Rest of old Bathroom:
With a young baby in the house we timed the start of the build with a four day weekend away. This part was going to be the most messy and dusty because of the wall coming down, stripping the old bathroom, tiles ETC and all being taken downstairs and out.
When we got back this was the progress, as you can see the wall was down, old doorway replaced by stud wall, the old floorboards where gone, new Marine Plywood floor cut and just laid in place for the time being, new ceiling, and plastering started.
Wow, much more than we expected in the time:
Over the next few days, plastering was finished, also new Downlighters, nice extractor(two vents, silent and pretty powerful), and underfloor pipes were installed:
Bath in the room, not ready to install it yet, but just there to work out pipe positions, once it was in the room with the feet on it, we couldn't get it out without taking the feet back off, so in it stayed, mostly up on one end in the shower enclosure:
With pipe positions, and plumbing 90% sorted tiling could begin. Everything was worked out to get as many full tiles as possible:
In the old bathroom there was a main waste pipe (boxed in) in the corner against the wall that would be removed, and ran down through the house and up and vented out through the roof. With the wall gone I wanted this cut down as low as possible (which must be kept just above the height of the toilet pan) and capped off with a Durgo (spelling?) valve.
This would still protrude up through the floor, but I was planing to put some units along the back wall where it would be and just lose the inards of whatever unit or units happen to work out in that particular place, thus hiding the offending waste pipe.
As luck would have it, it worked out that it would be under the very centre of the sink unit, it was a bit tight in there with all the sink plumbing, but it worked out very compact and neat, with minimum of lost storage space:
Tiles grouted, and hole cut for the shower controls. Behind this wall is the Airing Cuboard, so all the shower plumbing and pump could go in there:
Big mirror on the top half of one wall, and all finished:
It's a 1950's ex MOD property, which has never been privately owned before. Up until now it has been maintained by various MOD contractors, but never had any TLC or real money spent on it, so everything is quite dated.
Pics from before, as you can see the bathroom and toilet are split into two rooms next to one another.
Toilet. Prior to starting we had already had the old Radiator removed from the wall splitting the two rooms, and the new radiator fitted to the toilet wall(new outer bathroom wall), so the existing wall can come down.
Rest of old Bathroom:
With a young baby in the house we timed the start of the build with a four day weekend away. This part was going to be the most messy and dusty because of the wall coming down, stripping the old bathroom, tiles ETC and all being taken downstairs and out.
When we got back this was the progress, as you can see the wall was down, old doorway replaced by stud wall, the old floorboards where gone, new Marine Plywood floor cut and just laid in place for the time being, new ceiling, and plastering started.
Wow, much more than we expected in the time:
Over the next few days, plastering was finished, also new Downlighters, nice extractor(two vents, silent and pretty powerful), and underfloor pipes were installed:
Bath in the room, not ready to install it yet, but just there to work out pipe positions, once it was in the room with the feet on it, we couldn't get it out without taking the feet back off, so in it stayed, mostly up on one end in the shower enclosure:
With pipe positions, and plumbing 90% sorted tiling could begin. Everything was worked out to get as many full tiles as possible:
In the old bathroom there was a main waste pipe (boxed in) in the corner against the wall that would be removed, and ran down through the house and up and vented out through the roof. With the wall gone I wanted this cut down as low as possible (which must be kept just above the height of the toilet pan) and capped off with a Durgo (spelling?) valve.
This would still protrude up through the floor, but I was planing to put some units along the back wall where it would be and just lose the inards of whatever unit or units happen to work out in that particular place, thus hiding the offending waste pipe.
As luck would have it, it worked out that it would be under the very centre of the sink unit, it was a bit tight in there with all the sink plumbing, but it worked out very compact and neat, with minimum of lost storage space:
Tiles grouted, and hole cut for the shower controls. Behind this wall is the Airing Cuboard, so all the shower plumbing and pump could go in there:
Big mirror on the top half of one wall, and all finished:
9000 said:
looks great- how good are the vents when the shower is used?
Really excellent, one of thing we are very pleased with. Maybe because the old one used to sound like a vacuum cleaner, and did virtually nothing. Of course the shower door gets steamed up, but no excess steam in the rest of the room at all.
This is the one: http://www.screwfix.com/p/manrose-pro-showerlite-c...
The motor is quite far from the two extraction points, that's why it is so quiet.
OlberJ said:
That looks absolutely bob on. Nice selection, did you decide on it all yourself or was it designed for you?
I swithered over a complete wet-room for mine and tbh, wish i had just gone for it, have tiled 60% of the room anyways.
Was it expensive if you don't mind me asking?
Thank you. I swithered over a complete wet-room for mine and tbh, wish i had just gone for it, have tiled 60% of the room anyways.
Was it expensive if you don't mind me asking?
I pretty much designed it myself, with of course the wife's final approval.
She made the final tile choice, although we both already knew the kind of look we wanted.
Haven't dared to tot up the final total, but about £7k, but that's with very cheap labour rates. Wifes Dad is a builder, and he did nearly all of it. A really great builder, and an even better F-i-L.
We did tile everything, right under, and behind all the units and toilet, so in the future if we wish to change a unit or two, or the shower door breaks the room itself is complete behind all the fittings. Probably over did it a bit in some areas, but we are planning on living here for a long time.
Most of the fittings, cabinet, radiator, bath, units, taps, shower tray, and door all came from betterbathroom.com. Lots of their stuff is the same as in The Bath Store, so you can go and see it in the flesh.
Thanks again everyone.
Dimensions are roughly 3000 along the wall with windows and sink unit, and 1900 on the bath wall. Shower is 900wide x 760depth.
I did worry about water splashing behind the bath, and probably would have had a normal bath boxed in, and tiled if left to my own devices. The wife 100% always wanted a free standing bath, even though I still think they work better when you have a bit more room around them.
Anyway its quite deep, and the overflow waste is well below the top of the bath, so you cant fill it near the top, and would struggle to spill much really. However we do have an energetic one year old boy, who loves to splash around in there, so we have a towel on the floor behind the bath. It cant be seen unless you look for it, and it soaks up the few splashes.
Dimensions are roughly 3000 along the wall with windows and sink unit, and 1900 on the bath wall. Shower is 900wide x 760depth.
I did worry about water splashing behind the bath, and probably would have had a normal bath boxed in, and tiled if left to my own devices. The wife 100% always wanted a free standing bath, even though I still think they work better when you have a bit more room around them.
Anyway its quite deep, and the overflow waste is well below the top of the bath, so you cant fill it near the top, and would struggle to spill much really. However we do have an energetic one year old boy, who loves to splash around in there, so we have a towel on the floor behind the bath. It cant be seen unless you look for it, and it soaks up the few splashes.
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