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!

 

[Bathfix Bob]

That would have made an interesting video on the Cornertape Youtube channel!

 

[davemul]

any pics

yeah enjoy

 

[jay]

Not the tv the Silicon

 

[Bathfix Bob]

I'd have gone for the Xbox myself.

Although the effect would have been less impressive.

 

[davemul]

I'd have gone for the Xbox myself.

Although the effect would have been less impressive.

I wish it was the xbox Bob, i bought it for one game (forza) and never played it! game in wrapper, xbox been turned on ONCE! this was a year ago!

 

[Bathfix Bob]

I'm been playing Gran Turismo 5 on PS3 for most of the year, bought the driving wheel and everything.

Begining to tire of it now but its still an awesome game.

Thinking about it as good as that game is the licence tests are infuriating and as a result I've lost MY temper and threw my PS3 controller at the wall like a little child and smashed it and also broke my digital alarm clock.

 

[Qwerty]

Pics would indeed help. Dont be disheartened dave. It took me a while to get a hang of the sticky stuff. I remember the first big Silicon job i ever did.......it went everywhere! I didnt know just quite how much until i came to the first junction down the end of the road when my foot slipped off the brake pedal!With anything, it comes with practice, not that this helps you though dave

 

[davemul]

luckily i didnt smash this screen. Over 60kg easily.. and can you imagine trying to get it up the narrow stairs of a cottage!?

The bath wasnt so easy to get upstairs either!

some sealant shots for all you deviants that asked

 

[tfs]

Hi Dave,

I can see where you have gone wrong here mate. You have done great job for someone with so little or nearly no experience and you have clearly put alot of time, effort and money into this job.

There is an old saying amongst joiners 'your finnishing is only as good as your roughing'

basically the better job you do of the first fix the easier it is to do a great job of the finnishing touches.

I can see some imperfections with the finnishing details of the tiling, these include lipping in the internal corners, and perhapy slight;y ;arge gaps were the wall tiles meet the floor (falls in trays can make this worse if you dont scribe to the fall)

Overall you have done a very good job mate and hat off to you

Lipping in any tiling job will make the sealnt look poor on any job and the lipping will stand out as it creates an offset effect when looking down the Silicon seal.

I re seal many baths and shower rooms etc and it can be a nightmare sometimes as the customer expects a great job but sometimes its not possible when working with the finnish that was left by the guy who tiled the area initialy.

As said already hat off to you Dave! on the next job you will have the experience to know what to look out for and make the finnishing easier.

 

[jjoc]

sealing doesnt look so bad IMO. I'd say if your prepared to live with the tiling, im sure you could live with the sealing job. Its going to be hard to get a good Silicon finish if the tiles are not flush. Good job though

 

[davemul]

Hi TFS.. thanks for the kind words! yeah im pretty chuffed with it all, bar the Silicon episode! I don't think its bad for someone with ZERO experience anyway! I certainly never expected it to be perfect

Steak and a nice chateauneuf du pape for me tonight! missus is away to see the inlaws.. free house!

 

[davemul]

I'd say if your prepared to live with the tiling, im sure you could live with the sealing job.

Tiling isnt THAT bad surely!

 

[jjoc]

no, its not. i'm sorry if my comment came accross that way as it wasnt intended to - i think youve done an awesome job. I just meant that the small imperfections in the tiling will always be there and you will always know they are there, so if you feel that it wont frustrate you seeing them everyday then I dont see why the siliconing would. Hope that makes better sense!

 

[davemul]

Thanks mate

Wine o clock i do believe!

 

[davemul]

Another job I was dreading, fitting the towel rail, and refilling the central heating after all the pipe re working / moving

All done (just got to put trim on the pipes and fit collars, PHEW

Oh and new TV ordered! should arrive thursday!!