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]

another day.. another poxy wall that was as straight as elton john! :incazzato:

some bits arrived today

BLOODY NICHES! laser level is a god send

note the new stud additions, may aswell have built a new frame ! well they do say its all in the prep!

wall done!

VODKA TIME!

 

[Qwerty]

Well deserved!

What access is there for the TV cables?

 

[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!

 

[Stef]

looking good keep it up, watched this right through so had to post to keep a note of this.

 

[davemul]

Thanks matey!

 

[Bolter]

Thanks matey!

1000 views! Not bad for your first thread! 🙂 and not bad considering theres not a single tile yet!

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Nice! :drool5:

What does the wife think about a TV in the bathroom?

 

[Qwerty]

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!

Sounds good What TV is it.....is it a mirror TV? Ive seen a few of these recently and they really are good.

 

[davemul]

The missus is surprisingly on board about the TV! It will be a sovos one. This video actually sold it to me.. cant really get much more waterproof than this I guess...

19" Waterproof TV Submersion Test SOVOS SVBTV19 - YouTube

Bit of a wait for it though, but the suppliers sent me a back box so I could get the walls/tiles up which I thought was cool of them.

 

[Qwerty]

Wow! That is unreal........better show the wife.......i want one