new bathroom

[ben1977]

The project is to…..
1. combine the separate bathroom/toilet room into one. Blocking up the toilet doorway, keeping the bathroom doorway.
2. Have pipe work rearranged to fit new stuff.
3. Replace floorboards with marine ply, tile floor.
4. Fit new bath and Vanity unit
5. Tile, fit shower pump and shower

As you can see, its a stupid idea and iv never liked it. This pic was taken 2 weeks ago, just before i started knocking the centre wall down.

The plan was to bring down the wall upto the door frame.

most of the wall, on the floor….. happy days and i only broke the toilet seat.

1/08/11 Family moved to my mums, time to get busy. This was taken around 11ish I think. Wall down, frame removed, empty shell.

End of day 2. New wall has been bricked up and plastered. Patches have been plastered and channels dug for wires and pipes. Floor boards removed and pipes installed.

End of today, new floor boards fitted and floor tiles have been laid.
. Had a bit of a problem, I was talking to someone and not concentrating where I screwing down the floor boards. Next thing I noticed water…………………

 

[DBT85]

Looking good man, I start ours in earnest tomorrow, ripping tiles off, ditching the basin and sand & cement rendering the few patches where the render was blown. Sunday is bath swap out day.

Nice to see it's not only our bath that's cut into the wall!

Those are quite large chunks you've chopped out of the joists for the waste though!

 

[cm1179]

good job

in the 6th picture, the floor, is it covered in water or just a bit out of focus?

 

[ben1977]

Looking good man, I start ours in earnest tomorrow, ripping tiles off, ditching the basin and sand & cement rendering the few patches where the render was blown. Sunday is bath swap out day.

Nice to see it's not only our bath that's cut into the wall!

Those are quite large chunks you've chopped out of the joists for the waste though!

Thanks Todge
the cut for the bath, luckily was already there which is a bounce. Regarding the joists, I’ve had people come and have a look and they didn’t see a problem with it, well it’s too late now anyway……..lol

 

[churchhawk]

I thought you were meant to drill joists through the middle and run pipes through them not cut notches out of them as it weakens them?

Anyone shed any light on this

 

[ben1977]

good job

in the 6th picture, the floor, is it covered in water or just a bit out of focus?

do you been this one?

the black is old damp and theres no water

 

[TaKeN]

Looking good

 

[cm1179]

looked like a puddle of cloudy water to me. i must get my eyes checked.

 

[Maccapacca]

I'm just finishing mine, job and a half with two kids and a moany wife

I put electric underfloor heating in mine the step is errrr a bit of a ledge, adhesive then 6mm hardibacker board screwed every 150 then the heat matt testing the ohms at every step then latex then adhesive then 9.6mm tiles

I'm just fighting to get porcelain tiles on the wall, they are 300 x 300 so you hardly get a run when you need to cut or measure and cut

Just remember to seal your bath full up overnight and seal from underneath before you tile then again after

 

[kwerk]

I thought you were meant to drill joists through the middle and run pipes through them not cut notches out of them as it weakens them?

Anyone shed any light on this

I don't think it matters if there's concrete right underneath. There should probably be metal plates covering them thought to stop nails/screws accidentally hitting them.

 

[Energize]

Problem with combining the two rooms is that if you've got a few people living in the house no one can use the toilet when someone is in the shower.

 

[DBT85]

I don't think it matters if there's concrete right underneath. There should probably be metal plates covering them thought to stop nails/screws accidentally hitting them.

That would be fine if that bathroom wasn't upstairs and didn't have plasterboard under the joists

I'm sure it'll be fine though. So many places have chunks of joist missing from before those kind of rules were brought in that are still standing.

 

[DBT85]

Thanks Todge
the cut for the bath, luckily was already there which is a bounce. Regarding the joists, I’ve had people come and have a look and they didn’t see a problem with it, well it’s too late now anyway……..lol

Yeah same for ours. When I first measured up i had to do a bit of a double take. Distance between tiles on opposite walls? 1.66m. Length of bath sitting in the gap? 1.7m.

Didn't realise it was so common.

Where did you get all your stuff from? local merchant or online? We got a lot of ours from tradedepot.co.uk.

EDIT: It's Friday afternoon and I've just broken for lunch. Got 2 walls worth of tiles off and took a chunk out of the bath to boot lol

Spent the morning ripping moving the desk and pc in the back bedroom so that I could get to the floor to cut into the 22mm hot feed. Surprise surprise I needed to pop out to get an elbow that I didn't think about while planning. All done and leak free though.

BTW, if you don't have a wet vac, they are a godsend when doing plumbing. A neighbour gave my folks one a few years back and they never used it. I robbed it and it's really useful for draining rads and pipes that still have a bit of water in. And mopping up what spills out