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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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Mike

i always leave the floor till last if i can, as yours is going to be a wetroom you could tile the walls but leave the bottom row of wall tiles off then tile the floor, then the bottom row of wall tiles. this way would give you less chance of damage to the floor. i've done it that way so that the bottom row of wall tiles overlaps the floor tiles so there's less chance of a leak were they meet
 
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davemul

Be aware of the fixed showerhead aswell, have you taken into account the tile/adhesive thickness in regard to the shower arm flange? Nothing worse than a load of thread showing or even worse if the flange/coller bottoms out on the tiles before it scews tight. You also need to make sure it tightens at the right place. Ever fitted an outside tap?

I spent about 3 hours measuring for the fixed shower head! :lol: The head is grohe aswell and the threaded spindle screws in to the angle mounted 1/2" you can see in the pic. The shower head then pushes on to the spindle, through a waterproof membrane and then allen key secures.

the shower head also has a nifty sealed 2 part cover. So I have a bit of play with distances.
 
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davemul

how will you rectify that dave? fit new ones alongside? or maybe plane them?

I've been able to plane a few so I could fit the shower wall panels as per my latest photo's :). On the other walls i've fitted new ones alongside. joys of an 1800's cottage im afraid! these things are sent to try us!

The wall you see that hasnt been done yet is going to prove ultra tricky as its the diagonal supports that throw me out.. plus SHE wants another niche there too! arrghhh.. niches!
 
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davemul

That's just a spare mounting box, I'm still waiting for the tv to arrive but I've already routed and fed a twin sky cable so I can terminate it with an rf fitting that goes to a sky hd box in the room above the bathroom. Then there is a feed cable that goes to the next room where the power brick will be plugged in. That should be all that I need. The tv when connected to the sky hd rf2 output gives me all our sky channels and lets me control the sky box a la magic eye With the supplied waterproof remote control

Theoretically it's an ideal set up....! Don't quote me though!
 

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