Starting my Bathroom (building works only)

[mattyg]

Ok guys.

I'm starting the building prep on my bathroom this week, ( well myself and my bricky cousin )And I'm after some tips tricks Ideas or just the correct way to do it.

Here's some pics to get us started.

1:

Bathroom 1 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr


The unit on the left is staying but moving over to the right a bit. The wall with the towel rad is going and is to be replaced by a glass partition/wall floor to ceiling


2:

Bathroom 2 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr

The Bath is being brought out to approx the same as the old chimney in the left corner. Unless we can remove it easily (not used and is full of cavity insulation) That should mean we can get the bath central (that'll help with the wife's OCD)


3:

Bathroom 3 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr

Thats the stud wall being removed and replaced with a glass partition. Got a few questions to ask about that. (could be a costly cockup)


4:

Bathroom 4 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr

The minging shower. Last tiler did a crap job not bad at setting out but he aint getting another tiling job from me. :lol:
This is going to be a wetroom type of enclosure with a preformed wedi floor thingy.



Not the biggest of bathrooms. But we should be able to squeeze everything in.


Ok so Tuesday skip is coming and ripping out.

All taking back to brick. (original plaster from 1895 ) should make the bathroom a foot wider and longer:smilewinkgrin:

Floorboards coming up (winters coming and have a woodburning fire)

Noggings being put in to strengthen joists (bit of bounce) Then lay18mm WBP. Weve been advised to use acrylic primer on the Back?? and sides leaving 2mm perimter gaps and fill flexi or Silicon.
Then lay 10mm insulation boards before electric UFH. And self level finally install 'Schluter Ditra' De-coupling membrane.



The wall are to be boarded using foil backed plasterboard most likely dot'n'dabbed not sure enough room or flat enough walls for a thin stud.

Shower wall to be boarded with marmox or Wedi waterproof backer boards

Ceiling is also being replaced and re skimmed.

The plasterer wants to also skim the walls. Incase we ever need to re tile we may end up reboarding.
However I dont like the Idea of waiting 4 weeks to tile afterwards. were not having heavy tiles so the hanging weight wont be an issue if we skim. But chances are even with only a skim it'll be flatter without.


I think thats it for now.

If I'm off with some details guys help me out.

I'm gonna need some guidance along the way especially when it comes to the wetroom part.


Thanks in advance
Matt

 

[mattyg]

Ok its Done.(well its been done a few weeks..well nearly done needs a door and some woodwork doing)

So from this


Bathroom 2 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr


To this


DSC_9533 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr

To finally



Bathroom done 1 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr


Bathroom done 2 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr


Bathroom done 3 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr


Bathroom done 4 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr


Bathroom done 5 by mpg Photo's, on Flickr

 

[White Room]

That looks very tasty, cracking job mate.

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Now that is a VERY FUNKY bathroom. Well done excellent job.
Are there any plans for an extract fan?

I put mine in the ceiling above the shower head.

 

[mattyg]

Now that is a VERY FUNKY bathroom. Well done excellent job.
Are there any plans for an extract fan?

I put mine in the ceiling above the shower head.

The fan is.....


Bathroom done 6 fan by mpg Photo's, on Flickr

There above the towel rail.

Its a little louder than I had hoped so it may be getting swapped.

The bath has nearly drowned 2 people so far.(Both myself and the Other half she a bit shorter than me...Feet didnt reach the other end until her head was well under the water. I laughed so hard only to do the same myself..that'll learn me)

 

[John Benton]

Good work matty, everything flows nicely, just hope the shower does.....

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Funky funky!!

 

[mattyg]

Cheers guys, Although I can take no credit for the tiling. (After my last attempt I got a man in.) We had to compromise on the floor in the shower area we wanted the floor tiles to flow into the shower but alas we couldn't get it set out right there would have been a small cut running along the floor adj to the wall then up the front of the bath panel and then across the top. Which would have annoyed the hell out of me. So mosaics were used. At least it defines the area.

Overall really happy with it. I've learnt some valuable lessons. The main one being do the job right from the start prep prep prep.

The only job that didnt go to plan was the raising of the floor. We had a half step now its a full one into the bathroom. But it feels like its always been like that now.

To coin a southern phrase(sorry if ya southern) but the UFH is Lush.


Hopefully nothing will leak. Its got to get past tiles, grout, adhesive, Ditra, adhesive, slc, ufh, slc, wedi, adhesive, 22mm ply.

The shower is wicked, Although now we've got a bath I can get fully into the shower's only been used a couple of times. The bath takes a good 20 mins to fill up but its worth the wait.

 

[John Benton]

Take that pat I gave you on the back and give it to your tiler....:lol: seriously though, nice choice of tiles, and you are right in the preparation. The setting out takes a while but its better to know where every cut is going to be before even fixing a tile to the wall. That annoying slither of tile that you have to look at for the next 10 yrs would drive you mad if you don't do it right.

Well done

 

[judge]

Looks really nice job mattyg,when u starting the on-suite .....lol

 

[mattyg]

Looks really nice job mattyg,when u starting the on-suite .....lol

The En-suite:yikes: Its taken me 5 yrs to get the bathroom "nearly" done.:lol: