Latest Bathroom refurb

[macten]

Hi guys, had quite a slow Nov/Dec but things are picking up now and it seems Jan is the month people order their Bathroom Suites as I have 3 complete refurbs on at the moment and went to order a suite with a customer and people were queuing so I am sure the work will pick up for us all soon.

I'm doing my usual photo journal of progress with all my jobs so now I'm finally busy again I thought I'd post a work in progress. Please feel free to add advice and criticism as it really helps my learning/progress.
No tiling started on this job yet (though they are on order). Two days before the suite arrived I stripped the artex off the ceiling, I then got a spreader in to skim the ceiling:

I found a heat gun and a Gundlach scraper to be the most effective method.

 

[macten]

you could always plasterboard the wall ,over the existing wall.I am sure you will find something,how big is the gap?why are the walls so bad?

Yeah, the way I see it I have several choices:
1. Hope I can fill the gap (18mm gap and using 9.5mm tiles) Gonna be a 6mm Silicon bead
2. Build a little tiled shelf - only be big enough to stand a teatree candle on mind
3. PB wall - gonna have to be window wall or I'll lose door architrave
4. Lay a row of cut tiles along bath edge
5. Use a bath seal strip like before!!!

 

[macten]

Gonna permanently fix bath in 2morro and overlay the floor with nomoreply.
Also got to sort the toilet out. Although customer is happy that the basin is central to the window (I dry fixed it) the toilet now looks too close to it in relation to the gap to the wall on the other side. Offered up a flexi pan connector but even with cutting the soil pipe right back as far as I can reach it will still bring the toilet out too far from the back wall. I've explained that all I can do is use the biggest offset pan connector I can get (which is 2 inches), then with the raised height of the floor I maybe able to move it an inch away from the basin. Not ideal but the basin being central is priority so she's happy.

 

[brian c]

i would loose it at the window wall and bridge the gap...could always use a bit of pvc.

 

[macten]

I may not fix the bath 2morrow then Bri - need to leave my options open and won't really know until I've got the tiles in my hand.
Bri - do you mean bridge the gap at the window wall?

 

[faithhealer]

Always a bit awkward when the wall isn't square to the bath

 

[Saltire69]

Can u not give it a quick skim yourself or build it out with addy. Keraflex maxi goes up to 15mm so it would do the job. Then see if u could get thicker door facings?.

 

[macten]

Got the flooring down:

Blobbed the bath in and started on framework for tiled panel:

Ran a lighting cable from loft to a new dimmer switch in hall ready for the downlights:

Only managed to put one full day in on this one but all is ready for tiling when they arrive. Flat out on another bathroom at moment which has been a right demolition job - ripping down walls, building new walls and a door so can't get back for a couple of weeks.

 

[Stonearth]

Have you done counter top basins with shinny chrome bottle traps? What are they like to install? I see that they are very popular now!

 

[macten]

Have you done counter top basins with shinny chrome bottle traps? What are they like to install? I see that they are very popular now!

Like these?:

Plumbing's easy enough but cutting the front face to suit shape of basin is a pain.
Basin I'm doing on one of my jobs is the pedesteless type that comes out the wall. Not done one of them before.

 

[macten]

Had to break off from this one to do another bath refurb - which was really hard going but fun and I learnt loads, I'll chuck that up in another thread if anyone's interested.
Been back at this job this week so here's an update.

Down-lights in, shaver socket wiring removed and ceiling painted: