Bathroom project - Work in progress

[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...

Now you dont!

Ive taken quite a lot out..

CARNAGE

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

Marmox goods and tiles!

New shower pump for the house too

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!

 

[davemul]

Thanks for the kind words Ed :8:

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Wow you've been busy today Dave, it would take me all day just to upload the pics!

 

[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 🙂

 

[Bathfix Bob]

No,no keep them coming.

I think I'll get myself an Iphone, my Blackberry is two years old and the mic has already gone crackley. Can't even hear what folk are saying.

 

[Bolter]

sorry to all if it gets a bit monotonous and boring 🙂

This is the precise forum to be posting all these pics! :8:

 

[davemul]

Layed some tiles...

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 😀

cheers

 

[Stewart]

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


Created on iPhone.....

 

[davemul]

Cool, thanks Stewart

Whats the best way to cut mosaics? has anyone done it with a big clinker (hate that name!)

Should I cut by the drain? or should I cut where the mosaic meets the floor tiles?

 

[Qwerty]

Looking good mate

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:

 

[davemul]

Looking good mate

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:

Perfect sense mate, Thank you 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.