day by day photos of bathroom refurb

[johnryan]

hello all, just thought some of you might be interested to see a day by day photo diary of a bathroom i'm doing over the weekend (hopefully finish on monday). i'm doing the ewpar with max at able skills at the moment, and as a way of him seeing some up to date jobs i've set up a free website that i can put photos and a few words on for him to look at. no tiles up yet as a lot of prep work was needed, but i'm putting pics up from yesterday morning when i first started. any comments and advice are welcome
anyway, here's the link to the site
photo diary of bathroom in ashford started today 11 march 2001 - Home
there's going to be a lot of pictures up by monday, so i thought rather than fill the servers here up with them, i'd put them off site. doing a porcelaine floor next, so may do one for that too. cheers.

john

 

[Ian]

Crikey! You've got some work on there! Good luck with the rest of it and I look forward to the next lot of piccies.

 

[johnryan]

new photos from tomorrow should be up around 8ish tomorrow evening. long day tomorrow, will be starting at around 7, so should be a few changes. looking forward to some feedback from everyone here, so all advice, ideas or criticism will be welcome.

 

[DHTiling]

I just found something wrong..?

this mould spore was growing on one of the pics.. PIC 7

photo diary of bathroom in ashford started today 11 march 2001 - Home

 

[johnryan]

well, just put up a few from today, though not much to show. plumber was in fitting bath and other bits and pieces, so couldn't do much. did some chasing out for him for towel rad pipes while he fitted the bath. however, i did manage to get rid of that mould spore in pic 7 dave rrr:. tomorrow will see some real progress, as i have the day to myself.

 

[aph257]

I personally wouldn't have put full tile onto bath top because of small cut under window.

 

[johnryan]

I personally wouldn't have put full tile onto bath top because of small cut under window.

i agree, i wouldn't normally have a cut that small under the window, but the owner has asked for me to keep to certain specs, and a full tile around the bath is one of them. also, it will leave me with almost full tile at the top and bottom of the wall. i showed her several options, and that was how she went. i think it'll still look good though, and when the sill and reveals are done, i don't think it'll be too much of an issue. hope to have a lot more tiles on the wall tomorrow, so we'll see i guess. thanks for the input though. it's always good to hear from other tilers what they think.

 

[Qwerty]

What materials are you using John?

 

[johnryan]

What materials are you using John?

sbr on to finish plaster, then ceramics. the borders are natural stone mosaics, with bal white star around the bath area, though i'll be using green star around the rest of the room. removed a skim of unsound plaster and paint first, leaving me with a good solid plaster substrate to tile to. total weight of tiles and adhesive is 16 kilos, so will be fine. will get a good sealant on the mosaics before grouting too.

 

[johnryan]

just put day 4 up. sorry about the quality of photos, they were taken with my phone, and are a bit blurry.
tiles were a bit dodgy though. they're from b & q, and some vary in size by 1.5mm ! didn't get as much done as i wanted, as the plumber turned up to do some of his stuff, but should have all the tiles up tomorrow.

 

[johnryan]

just updated with todays photos. got all the tiles up except for the window sill and reveals, but will do them thursday when i go to grout. taking longer than i thought for this job, the old suite came out last thursday. i'm going to the stone show tomorrow, so thursday for grout and sills etc, then back on the weekend for silicone and grout the sill and reveals. 6.5 days for me, and 2.5 for the plumber. thought i'd only be there for 4 days. did a lot of extra work i wouldn't normally do though, so not too worried about it.

 

[Derry]

it's looking good though john and that the most important thing. thanks for sharing

 

[johnryan]

well, at the stone show yesterday, and when i went in this morning i found the plumber hasn't managed to get back, and wont be back till monday, so can't do more till he's been back. off to another job tomorrow, but will post this jobs final photos on monday ( as long as the plumber gets back that is.) still i got to celebrate st patricks day down the pub this afternoon, which kind of made up for a lost day. then got an earful off the missus when i got home which didn't.

 

[Barry bp]

Because there is copper all the way to rad you need to earth it we like to use plastic then convert to copper to avoid ugle earth clamp

 

[Mike]

it's looking good john but it's taken you a long time (10 years) :lol::lol::lol:

 

[johnryan]

well, finally got back in there today, as the plumber got his stuff done, and got finished up. tiled the reveals and the panel behind the pan, grouted, cleaned up and silicone on too. came out quite well, apart from the delay, but i got another job done in between and the owner wasn't bothered so no big deal. tiles were a bit dodgy though. b & q multisize/multishade specials. i wish people would get them from somewhere else.

 

[DHTiling]

pics..

 

[johnryan]

pics..

i put them off site to save on space. here's the link if you want to have a look;
day 6 march 24. - photo diary of bathroom in ashford started today 11 march 2001
it's got from the beginning on the other pages too.

 

[DHTiling]

What type of top are you going to use here..?

 

[DHTiling]

Nice tiling though mate..

 

[johnryan]

What type of top are you going to use here..?

there's going to be cupboards above, so the chippy is putting in some kind of shelf there when he comes to put a new door on. the owner said she'll email me some pics when it's all done.

 

[DHTiling]

Sounds good then.. i thought maybe a wooden top or a stone type top was gunna be used.

 

[johnryan]

i think it'll be some kind of wood shelf then the cupboards. it was done on a budget, so i think stone was out of the question here. would've been nice though.

 

[Barry bp]

Shame the pipes where not chased in wall between vanity unit and bath dont look good to me the rad pipes would have been better straight into valves then you can use chrome sleve now they have 90 degree angle can not do tiling good you have put pics up so i am only giving my thoughts I must say I only fit mid to high end bathrooms but I do gurantee customer they will be fitted as perfect as pos no pipes etc.Also you need to earth that rad as it has been fed in copper who is doing the electrics?

 

[johnryan]

Shame the pipes where not chased in wall between vanity unit and bath dont look good to me the rad pipes would have been better straight into valves then you can use chrome sleve now they have 90 degree angle can not do tiling good you have put pics up so i am only giving my thoughts I must say I only fit mid to high end bathrooms but I do gurantee customer they will be fitted as perfect as pos no pipes etc.Also you need to earth that rad as it has been fed in copper who is doing the electrics?

yeah, i'd agree with you about the pipes by the vanity unit, but i didn't really have a say in that. the owner is having a chippy come in to do a few bits, and they'll be boxed in. the rad pipes, again weren't anything i had any control over, as i never touch plumbing or electrics, and go with what the plumber says. this was done on a very tight budget, so can't really expect perfection. don't know anything about the earth, but will speak to the plumber in the am about that. he got the electrician in, so i suppose they'll sort that out. what was it that's wrong with the tiling though? not sure where you mean about that. any constructive criticism about the tiling is welcomed, but need to be a bit more specific.