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!

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

well done mate i have never seen a first timer's work to this standard :44:

 

[davemul]

Wow, thanks for the kind words guys.

Phil, the pic is a guy called Mike Strutter from MTV... v v funny (but an acquired taste I think, youtube him but make sure no kids are about)

 

[Qwerty]

Any more progress Dave???

 

[davemul]

not massively mate, finished the towel rail wall, mounted the taptile controls for the lighting behing the tiles too...... put some mosaics up..

going to try and finish enough walls so I can grout tomorrow

 

[davemul]

I decided to tackle the gulley problem where the mosaics ended up lower than the drain cover. No good really is it!

so I bought a different gully from impey, hoping it was lower profile.. it was... but doesnt fit properly

It look sSO much nicer than the other one though.. and could do with being a little lower.. so

Fein multimaster plus a steady hand results in this

its now at a perfect height

of course it still doesnt fit and is only resting on the gulley, so I will re jiggle and set induvidual mosaics to meet the new smaller drain cover, then Silicon the drain cover tray. This will hold it in place. The actual grid is heavy and just sits in the tray

hopefully, problem solved!

any controversial opinions much welcomed before I make things permanent

 

[Stewart]

You could have feathered the level of the tray to bring the level up..... Unless you'd already stuck down some of the mosaic?


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[davemul]

mosaic was all down.

I didnt want to feather the tray as i was concerned about evening out the fall...

nearly finished adjusting now...

 

[davemul]

dry laid

 

[Tomtiler]

Looking good

 

[Qwerty]

A much better look mate.....good choice

 

[davemul]

Niche & shower tray mosaics all laid, and sealed.

Ready soon to start mixing up these

Very quick question. When Iwas sealing the mosaics, the sealant ran in to the grout joins...

This wont affect the adhesion of the grout will it??

 

[davemul]

 

[Ian]

All going well Dave, home stretch soon. M3 CSL outside, nice wheels!


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[Mike]

a couple of boy racers on here by the looks of it and nice work dave, why haven't you grouted the niches as you did the wall? are they going a different colour?

 

[davemul]

Thanks Bri, Not a CSL as i like my mod cons too much... so just a normal M3 (with CSL wheels and AP brakes all round though)

Mike, I only sealed the mosaics earlier, so will wait untill another day when I do the floor to grout those..

walls are hard enough and I am COVERED in epoxy grout!