Bathroom project - Work in progress

[davemul]

Apologies mods of this needs to go elsewhere.. please feel free to move it or bin it!

Riiiight.. here goes....

We've been in our first house nearly 2 years now. We've (well ... more like I'VE!) done everything else bar the bathroom. It's an old 1800's cottage so the bathroom was in a pretty bad way. Solidly built but nasty and OLD!

I decided a few weeks ago to RIP it out and start from the beginning.

First task was to move the hot water cylinder from in the bathroom to a new cupboard outside the room (thanks to Scruff from ultimatehandyman.co.uk for the advice!)

Now you see it...

Now you dont!

Ive taken quite a lot out..

CARNAGE

Well, I picked up a load of bits today..

Marmox goods and tiles!

New shower pump for the house too

Also have taken delivery of a taptile wireless light switch system Taptile - Ditch the switch one-touch mood lighting and dimming solutions for the bathroom and kitchen

6 astro glass downlights

an airflow icon15 extractor fan

and some Polk RC60i ceiling speakers

and a couple of remote water isolation switches about surestop

More bits arrive tomorrow.. i'll update this thread as I go along... im taking next week off to start the plumbing and install!

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Amazing stuff Dave, I really like the countertop basin, and that toilet is fab.

Have you got plumbers knee's yet? Tilers Knee's?

I've been on mine all week and they are sore as hell.

 

[davemul]

my knees are shot!!

Water supply plumbed... bang on

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Looking good, the plumbing puts many a 'pro' to shame.

I like the chrome waste pipe, never had the opertunity to use it myself yet, is brass or stainless steel Dave?

 

[davemul]

Yo Bob.. I think its brass thats been chrome plated mate.

Finished boarding the last wall today.. ready to tile!

Mirror arrived, its a infrared touchless one.. just wave a finger under the unit and it switches on lights and mood lights... its also heated so should never steam up!

New shaver socket to get rid of the PONY old one.. oh and also test fitted the bathroom stereo amp/radio/ipod dock.. its uber cool... also wirelessly links to my iTunes library so have complete access to all my tunes! all controlled by my iPhone or iPad! (or the supplied remote)

Missus has also been painting the ceiling, hence towels and sheets everywhere!

Had a bracket made on a CNC mill also to fix to ceiling to add additional support for the wet room screen

Done for today!

CNC Milled

URRGH, BIN!

Smile!

 

[Mike]

very posh dave, you must be a real gadget freak :lol::lol:

 

[davemul]

Freak as in I get them Mike, then never use them! :mad2:

 

[davemul]

shower screen in, shower installed & set up....

 

[Bathfix Bob]

:drool5: Stunning work there Dave, good thinking about getting a metal bracket CNC milled, a plumber would have just wedged a wooden door stop in there!

Must have been pricey though for a 1 off?

Also if you want to see your pics they'll be on my website. :lol:

 

[davemul]

Thanks Bob. Yeah it wasnt cheap! But I bought myself Forza 4 to console myself.. oh and that new Batman game for the PS3! might try and get a few games in this weekend!

Slapped on a few tiles today and installed a couple of thermostats to start the UFH running in marathon! for the bathroom and kitchen.... will do conservatory when its decorated / clear of all my tools!

 

[davemul]

threw a few more tiles up... dont worry, that hideous glass WILL be going!

 

[mbbank]

nice job Dave, keep up the good work.
I have been looking for those supports you used to support the spirit level while tiling the wall. Can you tell me where you got them from ?
thanks.

 

[DHTiling]

Trade tiler 🙂

 

[davemul]

nice job Dave, keep up the good work.
I have been looking for those supports you used to support the spirit level while tiling the wall. Can you tell me where you got them from ?
thanks.

Thanks, stands are here as Dave says.. Only £15 too!

Tradetiler setting out tiling tools

 

[Qwerty]

Great progress Dave

Changing all of my Warmup Xstat thermostats for the new ones in my own place soon :drool5:

 

[davemul]

Great arent they! they have new cream ones out now.. kinda wish I had waited for those!

NEARLY FINISHED TILING!!! just two tiles to drill and lay... then some mosaic panels...

off to get some more kerapoxy tomorrow (urrgh!)

 

[hillhead]

I like your mapei bucket too Dave.. hens teeth them i say,lol.
Keep up the good work.

 

[davemul]

Programmed and set up the shower drain today.. you need a blimin computer degree!

We now have a useable shower!

 

[White Room]

Just gone faint looking at them wires:yikes:

 

[Qwerty]

Dave, its official......... you truly are a gadget freak :conehead:

 

[Mike]

why is there a control panel for the shower/drain? that looks sooooo complicated :lol:

 

[davemul]

Mike, its a pumped system.

2 sensors one on each supply pipe to shower

measures the flow in Litres p/m.. the system is mapped from low to high flow. Auto adusts suction of water from drain gulley depending on how much water is used.

Also switches on at low voltage/suction 15 mins after you have finished showering to clear any residual water that may be in the gulley.

It then recycles the water drained and turns it in to vodka for me


last bit not true, I wish!

 

[Mike]

Very complicated Dave. You've done well to fit it all yourself 🙂

tapatalk on my HTC

 

[Bathfix Bob]

I wish I got to fit stuff like that, even the well off people round here would't splash out on the expensive stuff in your bathroom Dave. :incazzato:

If I won the lottery though (not that I even do it!) I'd buy a half dencent house and have a huge bathroom extension with every gadget and gizmo going. I'd have waterfalls, home cinema, huge tiled spar bath, digital shower and one of those weird toilet guys to hand me toilet paper or whatever they do.

 

[Qwerty]

and one of those weird toilet guys to hand me toilet paper or whatever they do.

Crikey bob.......if I won the lottery, I would rather have a girl in the bathroom with me! Each to their own then

 

[davemul]

I'm with Geoff... as long as the missus doesnt mind!

anyone need some jasmine kerapoxy 2kg? looks like i'll have a spare tub!

 

[davemul]

wasnt keen on the mirror to start with, but its grown on me!

 

[Qwerty]

Very Hollywood looking Dave, but I like it

Im curious Dave, have you hacked into the national grid to power that room??? :lol:

 

[davemul]

Im dreading the next electric bill!

some mosaics up and sink taps in!

 

[Qwerty]

some mosaics up and sink taps in!

Basins in bathrooms Dave, not sinks (unless you plan on doing some washing up in there) :incazzato: :lol:

I have noticed recently that when clients refer to the basin as a sink, I have a nervous tick whereby I scratch my forehead quite aggressively (so I dont blare out "BASIN!!!!") :2:


Looking very nice still mate. What is left to do now then?

 

[Mike]

the taps look stunning dave, i hope they're still isolated, you'll get some dimwit trying them and flooding the floor

 

[davemul]

Basin / Sink I dunno!

Left to do.. Bit of grouting, fit BASIN 😉 and stand. Silicon work and im there I think!

its been a long old slog!