Ahhh the old multi-trader bashing again.
Sometimes multi traders are better placed to take on the design and installation of bathrooms in particular.
Take this one for example...
As a multi trader under taking the plumbing, decoration, tiling, carpentry, lighting.. it meant that every thing lines up perfectly
Take these recesses for example. I knew where every tile was going to fall before any of the boxing was built. So the recesses where placed so it fell directly in the center of the grout lines, the height of the recesses where also based on the tile size, I knew that I would also have to offset the recesses to take in to account the thickness of the tile placed on the adjacent wall. Do you think a tiler would spend a day on site marking out everything for the chippy to get every thing bang on mm perfect?
Would the chippy also go to the trouble of making sure the plasterboard didn't have any cut edges to the front so the decorators job wasn't made harder getting the transistion from the paint to the tile trim spot on?
Would the guy who put the false metal track ceiiling up care about spacing his supports out to allow for where all the LED main lights and accent lights were going to fall, or for that matter the ceiling speakers? Or would the electrican have to jiggle everything around because somethings in his way?
Again on this wall, would the tiler spend the time with the plumber to ensure perfect plactment of the shower valve so it fell in the center of a tile height wise? also the setting out of the tiles that allows the custom made shower screen with recessed channel so that only 2 or 3mm of the channel is visable and that the top of the glass ends on a grout line? again another recess that falls perfectly in the center of a grout line. Would the plumber go to the trouble of setting the bath height perfectly so it didn't cause the tiler setting out issues? same with the placement of the toilet, the vanity unit, the mirror so it's perfectly central to the tile that is cut up to the recessed shower channel?
Same thing in this shower room in the same property, The shower valve falls perfectly on centered grout lines, taking in to account the need to be offset so that the shower riser can be mounted centrally to the tray, another recess that takes in to account the tile setting out, would the sparky care where he placed the UFH controls so it fell perfectly on a grout line? The shower glass again finishing on a grout line. the mirror being central to the gap and central to a grout line. The lowered ceiling again taking in to account lighting, speakers, showerhead. The tiling that is cut an extra 3mm short to the floor so the amtico floor could be slid underneath and still leave a nice sized grout line to be siliconed. Again everything was reversed engineered with the tiling dictating where all items where placed.
It's easy to set out tiling so it centers on a window and maybe gives you nice cuts here and there but how about when that setting out has to take in to account 15+ different items? Not many tradesmen would give a rats arse that their part of the works took in to account all others trades work and making life easy for one another.
It takes 1 of 2 things...
Either a bathroom designer that produces very very detailed plans and highly skilled tradesmen that stick to those plans without fail (no easy shortcuts), that designer also has to have working knowledge of how things are installed and if the design can even be executed.
Or it takes a multi-trader that cares about every aspect of the job from start to finish and doesn't do things that makes another trades life a nightmare. As he IS the other tradesman
I'm sure the above just looks like any other bathroom to some but the technical aspects that have gone in to the design is much easier if one person is responsible for all of it... i.e a multi-trader
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BTW I'm not saying the above couldn't be executed by a team of highly skilled tradesmen, i'm know it can be but i'm sick of hearing how nobody can be skilled in multiple trades. I've said it before, if all single trade guys where skilled then I never would have branched out, but as someone who cares about their work I often went round sorting out everyone elses crap:mad2:
