Had a couple of weeks free so agreed to do a friend's bathroom at mates rates - said I wouldn't do anymore but moving in to new house soon so I am grabbing. Typically the weekend before I start I did 5 quotes and got them all so in the 4 days I've worked there I've left them with new toilet and bath and will finish between proper paying jobs.
Never took the before pictures but the bathroom was tiny and in a right state. Tuesday involved tearing down 2 walls and ripping out.
Next day was studding out 2 new walls and taking all the plaster and old tiles off back to brick work.
The old lead toilet waste was a right pain. Absolutely minced up coming through window wall, had been leaking on and off for years and was just blobbed with 2 tubes of silicone. Had a big hole in it so sewage must have been dripping down the exterior walls cavity :yikes:
Now normally I would remove the cast iron soil stack from the joint and above and replace with plastic but this was too costly for him. So got it watertight with a hacksaw, hammer, pan conn minus ribs and plumber's mate.
Never took the before pictures but the bathroom was tiny and in a right state. Tuesday involved tearing down 2 walls and ripping out.
Next day was studding out 2 new walls and taking all the plaster and old tiles off back to brick work.
The old lead toilet waste was a right pain. Absolutely minced up coming through window wall, had been leaking on and off for years and was just blobbed with 2 tubes of silicone. Had a big hole in it so sewage must have been dripping down the exterior walls cavity :yikes:
Now normally I would remove the cast iron soil stack from the joint and above and replace with plastic but this was too costly for him. So got it watertight with a hacksaw, hammer, pan conn minus ribs and plumber's mate.
