Cant aim straight?
Finished the bathroom
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Thanks for the kind words. Another before / after comparison collection I put together:
Laid some cable fairly soon after the job was done, though the wife was in fact the first to drop one out. I explained that it was the man's prerogative to do the first one, but she was desperate 
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Carpets in bathrooms are indeed wrong, but we didn't put it in there; it was the people that we bought the house from. We singled it out as a point to change straight away, but decided to wait to fix it until we were going to do the whole room.
Thanks, and yes I had some basic DIY from putting up shelves, painting and decorating, and some plumbing work, but most of it was transferrable stuff from working on cars. Might sound strange but a lot of the skills and practical common sense learnt working on cars can be applied to other aspects of DIY.
I had a lot of help from friends and local tradesmen though. Anything I couldn't do myself, I called them up and they billed me for their time.
Thanks, it took two and a half weeks start to finish. I worked a lot of evenings and had to wait for plasterers tilers and electricians to be ready to lend a hand at certain points.
Not at all, the budget was £5k all in and it came in at just under £4k, due to taking advantage of January sales, ex-display items, and realising that B&Q was in fact a perfectly adequate source for a lot of stuff that we had otherwise budgeted to buy from expensive catalogues. Things we didn't buy from B&Q were the shower pump (Grundfos from local plumbing trade store), bath (Laufen), basin (Laufen), basin taps (Hansgrohe), and the accessories (some trade store). Of these things they were all ex-display apart from the shower pump.
The bath is 1.7m long and the space was 1.685m, so fitting it in was a complete nightmare (had to angle grind the bricks). Apart from that it all went well but for a bit of a drama with a leaky Salamander pump, that was noticed when we heard drips coming through the kitchen! Was a pain as we had to rip the bath panel out and destroyed a few tiles in the process. Took it back and got a Grundfos instead
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Thanks for the kind words. Another before / after comparison collection I put together:
Now break it in
Good little transformation. Now you just need to spoil it for the wife by having a good smelly poo in there
Laid some cable fairly soon after the job was done, though the wife was in fact the first to drop one out. I explained that it was the man's prerogative to do the first one, but she was desperate .Craig321 said:Much better. I'd hate to see the state a fixed carpet would get into in a bathroom, what the hell were you thinking having a carpet in there in the first place!!
Carpets in bathrooms are indeed wrong, but we didn't put it in there; it was the people that we bought the house from. We singled it out as a point to change straight away, but decided to wait to fix it until we were going to do the whole room.
ScarySquirrel said:
Thanks, and yes I had some basic DIY from putting up shelves, painting and decorating, and some plumbing work, but most of it was transferrable stuff from working on cars. Might sound strange but a lot of the skills and practical common sense learnt working on cars can be applied to other aspects of DIY.
I had a lot of help from friends and local tradesmen though. Anything I couldn't do myself, I called them up and they billed me for their time.
JohnRoss said:
Thanks, it took two and a half weeks start to finish. I worked a lot of evenings and had to wait for plasterers tilers and electricians to be ready to lend a hand at certain points.
peterattheboro said:
How much did you spend total if you dont mind me asking, i will be doing a similar job (one day)
Not at all, the budget was £5k all in and it came in at just under £4k, due to taking advantage of January sales, ex-display items, and realising that B&Q was in fact a perfectly adequate source for a lot of stuff that we had otherwise budgeted to buy from expensive catalogues. Things we didn't buy from B&Q were the shower pump (Grundfos from local plumbing trade store), bath (Laufen), basin (Laufen), basin taps (Hansgrohe), and the accessories (some trade store). Of these things they were all ex-display apart from the shower pump.
The bath is 1.7m long and the space was 1.685m, so fitting it in was a complete nightmare (had to angle grind the bricks). Apart from that it all went well but for a bit of a drama with a leaky Salamander pump, that was noticed when we heard drips coming through the kitchen! Was a pain as we had to rip the bath panel out and destroyed a few tiles in the process. Took it back and got a Grundfos instead
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How do you tile so well
I was a tiling 'tard until the purchase of the powered man-toy tile cutter. It makes such a difference when you have nice, precise shaped tiles I find and taking that little bit longer over the grouting is also a winner, if very tiresome.
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How do you tile so well
I employed someone else to do it
. I seriously doubt I could do as well as that without lots of practice.Its the grouting which gets me, i just cannot get it neat! If i try and clean the wet grouting with a towel type cloth it just gets saturated in seconds, smearing it everywhere. The only way i could get my tiling looking even half decent was to use about 16000 rolls of kitchen roll to clean the grouting, and it took approximately 45 years.