DIY ensuite bathroom replacement - build log

Buffman · 15 Jan 2025 at 19:20

Participant said:
Towel rad fitted today with a Tado TRV and it's getting scorching hot. Tools removed from site and with just a blind and a threshold bar to fit, I'm calling this done, after only 7 months!

Huge thanks to everyone for their advice and recommendations .

Bottles in the niche? I think you went against @dlockers recommendation. Looks good.

How comes there's 2 sets of mirrors?

vail3r · 15 Jan 2025 at 19:58

I do like the towel radiator next to the shower. I wish we had room for ours to have gone there!

Participant · 15 Jan 2025 at 20:16

Buffman said:
Bottles in the niche? I think you went against @dlockers recommendation. Looks good.

How comes there's 2 sets of mirrors?

So the vanity came with a matching 1200mm mirror that I liked, but it a wasn't defoggy one and didn't have any cabinet storage, so I decided to just get two.

Oh and also... opposing mirrors allows me to cut my own hair when I cbf to go to the barber's.

kaku · 17 Jan 2025 at 11:13

Bet you're extremely happy with that!
We're due a bathroom and ensuite refurb but constant stories of unreliable contractors and poor workmanship is putting us off. 7 months isn't so bad... Is it?

Participant · 17 Jan 2025 at 13:14

kaku said:
Bet you're extremely happy with that!
We're due a bathroom and ensuite refurb but constant stories of unreliable contractors and poor workmanship is putting us off. 7 months isn't so bad... Is it?

I am rather chuffed with it to be honest. I was massively hesitant to even start doing it myself but I know I did a much better job (both structurally and cosmetically) than a lot of bathroom goons would have bothered doing.

7 months has felt like a long time with a wife in my ear and two young kids, tbh.

I want to do the main bathroom myself now, maybe with a bit more of a bold design, but wife is currently saying no way after the trauma of not seeing me for hours on end every weekend.

Buffman · 17 Jan 2025 at 15:34

At least I'm not the only one that gets grief for doing house DIY work

jpaul · 17 Jan 2025 at 15:53

looks good - cribs ! you have a high rail for the mobile shower head so you can power-shower accurately,
(relatives taped over button 2 on their mira so guests don't inadvertently engage rain head, if not washing hair)
& how are the shower drips containment - searching for a light long handled squeeze for them.