Last bathroom before a break

[macten]

Trying to get this one done in 7 days which means I can rest up a bit before the next one. I feel broken.
Usual thing of gutting and ripping out.
Only 3 walls to tile and for the first time I'm using 6mm ceramics (1st time since tiler school anyway) Only ever had porc + natural stone jobs. Can't believe how fast they are to work with.

Nice Pacific Blue suite:

 

[macten]

Lot of water damage from old bath pipes, floor was rotten:

Old Rad was microbore and had been weeping under the floor for a while.
Didn't use reducers as I wanted rid so swapped the T's and routed 15mm out of wall ready for towel rad:

 

[faithhealer]

I know this is the tiling forum but I can't believe they took microbore off a nice and handy 22 pipe!

 

[macten]

Only a small alteration needed to the Basin and WC pipework:

 

[macten]

I know this is the tiling forum but I can't believe they took microbore off a nice and handy 22 pipe!

Kinked and blocked - can't believe it can you!

 

[macten]

After scraping the worst of the old addy off the walls I skimmed the bathwall with rapid and over-boarded window wall. Also did left reveal to equalise the window frame a bit nicer:

 

[macten]

The hot water feed had to be cut back under floor and resoldered to new position as there was no straight piece of pipe for the push-fits
(If Ram or Wivers read this - THAT was the The pipe :lol

 

[macten]

Bath screwed and blobbed in place, then tanked:

NMP down and made a start on framework for bath panel:

 

[macten]

Wickes finest (joking aside they are so nice to work with):

My usual motto for tiling is 1 day 1 wall but I did 2! :hurray:
Look at me go, I'm smoking :lol:

 

[macten]

The boxing in was 'twisted' and needed quite a bit of skimming.
I'd set out all nice to balance all 3 walls and avoid the slither cuts in this area like before but that meant me knocking the window out of center by an inch but the customer was adamant the window should be centered and he did not mind slither cuts at all.
After a bit of a debate I suggested I add a couple of more pieces of plasterboard to the side of the boxing in and he could have it centered.
I did this and also moved the shaver socket over to the left so he still had room for the mirrored cabinet he had bought.

This was at my time and expense - Should I have just set out like he wanted or is it best to do what you know is right?

 

[macten]

Finished the day making new framework for shelf:

Wish all baths had such deep wooden frames - makes a tilers job a lot easier!

 

[2Balls]

Hi, Here is an alternative way to centre a window. I personaly hate L-cuts on Doors and Windows.I hope you don`t mind.Centre the tile to the middle of the window, and cut 2 tiles ,to the sides(Big cuts).Easy to keep symetric.But at the end of the day the customer was happy with slithers.Just another alternative to offer.Enjoy your break:8:2Balls

 

[aflemi]

Indeed 2balls, always 2 centres, 1 down edge, 1 down middle.
Macten, another good job thanks for the valuable 'real-time' posts.
Nasty tiles btw, but a lot better than the previous blue suite......
1 week is good going, friend of a friend of mine had their bathroom refurbed recently, big room 10ft x 17ft but it took 3 weeks. half ceramic tiled exept for walk in shower, ufh, inset bath Couple of bits of fitted units, 1 tall. Nice job but £11k?
The guy also did their cloakroom, usual size, little bit of furniture, wall hung wc, £3.5k?????? Oh, the cloakroom took him 3 weeks as well. This fitter is local and they had to book him in 4 months in advance. He actually doesn't do any of the work, just sub-contracts to spark, tiler + plumber, wee bit of project managing, keeps on top of things etc.
This is my long-term aim, makes me think there is profitable business to be had, even in this recession.
I'm in home counties btw, maybe more money than sense here.....

 

[macten]

Not sure I like the shortened tiles - may center window but loose symmetry in the field tiles. Also don't like the idea of cut against rectified edge but thanks for all the input guys it's much appreciated.
£1500 - £2000 labour is the average I charge for full refurbs and that includes sourcing suites, fixtures the lot.
Is that too cheap?

 

[aflemi]

that doesn't sound too bad if you can do it all in a week!!!
Suppose it depends on the area, size of project, how much customers will pay for fancy tiles, taps etc. Although £3.5k for a cloakroom seems excessive, i reckon total materials wouldn't be more than £1700 retail, he would pay £1100-1200. I reckon he took 3 weeks to stretch it out so it didn't seem so steep..
How big do your jobs go for a single bathroom? Are you able to take a margin on fixtures etc?