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davemul

Apologies mods of this needs to go elsewhere.. please feel free to move it or bin it!

Riiiight.. here goes....

We've been in our first house nearly 2 years now. We've (well ... more like I'VE!) done everything else bar the bathroom. It's an old 1800's cottage so the bathroom was in a pretty bad way. Solidly built but nasty and OLD!

I decided a few weeks ago to RIP it out and start from the beginning.

First task was to move the hot water cylinder from in the bathroom to a new cupboard outside the room (thanks to Scruff from ultimatehandyman.co.uk for the advice!)

Now you see it...

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Now you dont!

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Ive taken quite a lot out..

CARNAGE

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Well, I picked up a load of bits today..

Marmox goods and tiles!

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New shower pump for the house too

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Also have taken delivery of a taptile wireless light switch system Taptile - Ditch the switch one-touch mood lighting and dimming solutions for the bathroom and kitchen

6 astro glass downlights

an airflow icon15 extractor fan

and some Polk RC60i ceiling speakers

and a couple of remote water isolation switches about surestop

More bits arrive tomorrow.. i'll update this thread as I go along... im taking next week off to start the plumbing and install!
 
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davemul said:
Morning Bob :8:

Yup it used to be an old mank radiator with exposed pipework and the pipes had 10 layers of drippy paint on them.

Binned the lot and replumbed in to the wall



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For the finishing touch you can use chrome plated copper pipe to the rad valves, it looks loads neater than copper. Granted only 2 inch will be on show though. I buy it in 3M lengths but you can buy tails from Screwfix which come with shrouds. File the chrome plate off to solder and don't use push fits with it.
 
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davemul

Haha, well I take them all on an iPhone and there is a photobucket app that takes them from the phone and uploads them. Easy as peas! copy paste links, jobs a good'un!

I have taken and posted a hell of a lot of photo's, but this threads purpose other than getting advice from you pro's.. and hopefully helping others.. is to keep a log for myself showing what work was involved.

sorry to all if it gets a bit monotonous and boring :)
 
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davemul

Layed some tiles...

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Only joking.. just setting out, being a bit curious.

All seems ok from what I can see... anyone see any pitfalls? I set out from the doorway. First thing you see I guess.. made sense

I do have one question right now.... Now the SLC is down, I have a 5mm or so step down to the shower tray.

Would I be ok to use some tile adhesive to smooth from the SLC surface down to the shower tray? kind of like a gradual slope? I dont mind the slope, could be worse, the tray could be higher! :lol:

Im using mosaics for the tray so they should follow the slope ok...?

excuse dust/slc shavings :D

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cheers
 
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Looking good mate :thumbsup:

I would personally cut where it meets the floor tiles. Is there any way of keeping full tiles at both areas? Do what is right for the wet area, then work out from there. It is the feature area of the floor after all. It looks pretty good to me though, may need the floor tiles shifting a few mm here or there to get the required look of no cuts in the mosaics.....hope that all made sense :lol:
 
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davemul

blocko said:
Looking good mate :thumbsup:

I would personally cut where it meets the floor tiles. Is there any way of keeping full tiles at both areas? Do what is right for the wet area, then work out from there. It is the feature area of the floor after all. It looks pretty good to me though, may need the floor tiles shifting a few mm here or there to get the required look of no cuts in the mosaics.....hope that all made sense :lol:
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Perfect sense mate, Thank you :thumbsup: I think I will cut the tiles down on the doorway row, this will enable me to bring a full tile to the mosaic where the screen will end.
 
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davemul

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Feather the edge of shower tray with adhesive and allow to set....


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Just going back to this point... can I use tubbed adhesive to make this feathered join?

Not that im being stingy as I have 6 blimin bags of keraflex maxi... but rather than open a bag and mix a small lot... I do have a tub of mapegrip that I used for the kitchen.... still some left so would be great if I could use that?
 
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davemul said:
Just going back to this point... can I use tubbed adhesive to make this feathered join?

Not that im being stingy as I have 6 blimin bags of keraflex maxi... but rather than open a bag and mix a small lot... I do have a tub of mapegrip that I used for the kitchen.... still some left so would be great if I could use that?
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No Dave, use the keraflex.
 
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davemul

Guys, a bit of help/opinion required please :)

Setting out the wall tiles.

Tiles are 330x500 and I will be tiling in a brick bond pattern. I'm a bit stumped on how I should set out, basically what areas to focus on.

I have the shower mixer control on one wall
Then a niche and TV on the wall next
Then 2 niches on the wall next to that

Im thinking I should set out from the TV as thats pretty much what everyone will look at really!

Should Niches generally have tile joins slap bang in the middle?

If I set out from the shower mixer control, I can get it in the middle of one tile, but this will leave non central cuts for the first niche next to it

Want to get it right first time. Im thinking that it will be impossible to get central cuts on all so best to focus on one main feature

Shower control
Niche(s)
TV

couple of pics below showing. (there will be a screen on the left of shower)

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With square mosaic and square floor tiles - I'am just surprised you've gone for a rectangular shaped wall tile and 'brick bond'.
Although one would try to follow the whole tile pattern around the corners in the 'brick bond' design, I'd have a look first at centring the walls to make all your features equal to the eye and following the bulk of the cut around the corners.
 
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