Not Sure How You Guys Do This Every Day

[Marvo]

I like to get it all stripped out on day one.. View attachment 102322 View attachment 102323

Why on earth would they want that bathroom stripping out? If my bathroom looks half as good as that when I've finished I'll be happy.

 

[Marvo]

Day 2.....sigh...

• Trip to the local rubbish dump to get rid of yesterdays rubble.
• Purchase band aids, Tramedol, kneepads and gloves (and a sausage & egg McMuffin) on the way back home.
• Measure, layout and mark all locations for shower drain, shower taps and plumbing, basin taps and plumbing, glass shower screen etc.
  
• Excavate through the screed and into slab to allow 800mm Wirquin shower drain pan to be positioned.
• Chase 50mm shower drain into floor and open wall to allow it to drain into external gulley.
• Carefully plane gradual slope towards drain pan into shower floor using jackhammer.
• Cut back plaster and brickwork around window to prevent finished tile level covering the entire wooden window frame.
• Chase walls for plumbing pipes.
• Smooth all walls and floor with a diamond cup-wheel disk to remove high spots.
• Early finish.

 

[Marvo]

Day 3

• Cemented all the holes in the floor.
• By 9.30am I'd had enough and decided to go fishing instead.

Lessons learned;
Fishing is far more pleasurable than building work.



4th from the left, even after several Tremadol I'm still aching so much I'm struggling to hold up the 88 kilo yellowfin tuna.

 

[GoneGuy]

Keep the posts coming

 

[Spare Tool]

Day 3

• Cemented all the holes in the floor.
• By 9.30am I'd had enough and decided to go fishing instead.

Lessons learned;
Fishing is far more pleasurable than building work.

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4th from the left, even after several Tremadol I'm still aching so much I'm struggling to hold up the 88 kilo yellowfin tuna.

200lb WOW... It looks like the guy on the lefts fish had a little argument with a shark on the way in?

 

[Marvo]

Lol, just over 190lb and it was the third biggest fish of the 14 fish in total. I've given away around 30 kilos this evening and still got more tuna steaks than I can fit in my freezers. The dinner menu in our house is going to be heavily tuna oriented for the next few months .

 

[Spare Tool]

Tuna mayo sandwich, tuna salad, tuna cream cheese jacket potato, tuna pasta bake, tuna and chilli pizza.. Jeezus gimi a burger!!

 

[Old Mod]

Looks like you had a great day Marvo, fair play.

 

[John861]

As above, normally i just stick tiles on. Why? because i love
it. A little bit sad really but that's what I am in this game for

HELLO

 

[Marvo]

HELLO

Hi John....are you lost?

 

[Marvo]

Day 4. A little more productive than day 3....which isn't saying much.

• Switch off water to house and drain pipework.
• Get sidetracked by a previously undiscovered back-syphoning issue between the split water supplies feeding the house. (Most of the house is fed by borehole water, the kitchen only is fed by municipal water....or so I thought until I accidentally discovered otherwise this morning.)
• Dry-fit basin and install 40mm drain pipework.
• Make lightly seared sesame tuna steaks for lunch.
  
• Reroute 22mm main plumbing feed to a more convenient route and tee in for basin and shower.
• Install 15mm hot and cold pipes to below basin fit angle valves.
• Install 15mm pipework for shower taps and cap-off for now.
• Cement pipework chases where possible.

Lessons learned;

1. I'm a painfully slow plumber.
2. Anytime you really need some time without interuptions a customer is guaranteed to phone with an emergency that means you have to drop everything.

 

[Marvo]

Basin pipework with shower pipes above and the re-routed main supply pipe to the right.

Plastered.

 

[Marvo]

I have a couple of questions if I may.

Firstly I can't decide if I should tile the floor first or the walls...

Second, where is the best place to start tiling for both the walls and the floor?

Lastly, and I realise this is probably a plumbing question rather than a tiling one, the new basin has knockouts for the taps. Do you just give them a whack with something to break them out or is there a more scientific way to ensure they fracture smoothly?

 

[J Sid]

I nearly always do the floor first....others may not.
setting out....what size tiles are you using and how do you want them, portrait or landscape, straight or staggered?

 

[WetSaw]

Knock out for tap not taps unless you like waving your hands under the hot then cold taps... I tap them out then tidy up with a diamond core drill.

I usually do floor first then I have a ( relatively..) level point to tile the walls from. Where to start depends on quite a lot of things!