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!

 

[Stef]

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.

that is one mean tv, got ideas floating round my head now!!! wife will kick my a*$e

 

[widler]

i aint showing the wife owt on here,she wants the bathroom re doing,i don't know why,i tiled it 9 years ago,its fine 😉

 

[Stef]

i aint showing the wife owt on here,she wants the bathroom re doing,i don't know why,i tiled it 9 years ago,its fine 😉

IF IT AINT BROKEN DONT FIX IT!!!


I dont have that luxury, i moved into the house that jack built last year & i am slowly working my way through the house knocking down & rebuilding each room as i go.
Thats me on to the down stairs toilet/shower room, walls back to brick work & ceiling down, will post some photos in the next few weeks to show a work in progress.

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Nothing like working stress free in your own house.

I wonder how on the TV they waterproofed the speakers? The sound does come from the TV dosn't it?

I wonder how many braindeaths will watch that, not read the discliamer and have a bath with a standard portable. :lol:

 

[davemul]

Oh dear! what have I started!

Speaker wise, the actual TV is the speaker, pretty cool....

WELL, today I have been sealing, taping and tanking. Horrible job.. especially when you run out of tape. 30 metres not enough!? So had to run down to Marmox AGAIN!

Tomorrow i'll do the second coat... tell you what.. this mapegum is THICK. doesnt seem to go very far either. NEarly done a 5kg tub for what you can see below.

Ohh I ordered a load of tools/goodies from tradetiler and kwikstick (or something similar) so tiling wont be long!

Im knackered, time for a steak and vodka tonight!

 

[Qwerty]

Out of interest Dave, why have you tanked over the Marmox board faces with Mapegum? I always seal joints, then tape & Mapegum for piece of mind, but tanking an already waterproof tanking board could prove to be very time consuming & costly

 

[davemul]

Just for peace of mind mate. I'm paying attention to the tape and taped over screws/washers really. But I have the mapegum so may aswell use it

 

[Qwerty]

Fair enough then matey Looking good. Youll be ready to lay some tiles soon then

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Have you got all the correct tile cutting gear Dave?

What tiles are you using again?

Also I hope the cuts all work out for you with all those niches, we don't want to see and nasty slithers! :smilewinkgrin:

 

[davemul]

Tiles are just ceramics mate. I've got a wet tile cutter that I bought to do the kitchen... Will prob be ok with that, might get a new blade for it...

No pressure... Thanks Bob! :lol: