New Bathroom

sigma said:
I think £16k is a very good price in this day and age, especially for high quality work. Did you get many quotes before it? People are demanding all sorts currently.

I seem to recall you're up norf? I'm sure that's a £20k job down south.
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Im in Cheshire so sort of north :D

We got 4 prices for the fitter (with the tiles, fixtures and fittings from the tile / bathroom shop we went to) and there was about a 20%/30% difference across them.

The fitter we used was recommended by the tiling shop and was middle to lower end of the quotes but certainly hit the jackpot!

Even "extras" were minimal and all discussed / agreed before he went ahead. Couldn't have been better if I'm honest

I'm in the construction game myself so know prices have rocketed and good trades and contractors are pricey and hard to come by, which has, unfortunately, given rise to the "not so good" ones also starting to price out of line with their ability !
 
If you want a good job doing, it costs money. I've cheaped out before and regretted it.

This was £8k and we're really pleased with it. I'm expecting the bathroom to be a lot more.

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glenimp617 said:
The before photos look very much like our top floor ensuite. Biggest mistake I made was going with those metro tiles and dark grout. Never again!

Last year we had our daughters ensuite done which was around the £8k mark IIRC, and this year we were supposed to be doing the main bathroom but not sure at the min.

Yours look fantastic and given us a few ideas. We wanted something cream coloured like your tiles.
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Thanks :)

This now shows up the upstairs bathroom and our ensute but will be a while before we get them done!

Yeah, it didn't help the metro tiles were textured and the previous guy got the grout into the textured finish and it wouldn't clean out. It wasn't overtly noticable but once you did it was all you could see.

Acid wash, soaking, scraping, nothing would shift it :(
 
{SAS}TB said:
Thanks :)

This now shows up the upstairs bathroom and our ensute but will be a while before we get them done!

Yeah, it didn't help the metro tiles were textured and the previous guy got the grout into the textured finish and it wouldn't clean out. It wasn't overtly noticable but once you did it was all you could see.

Acid wash, soaking, scraping, nothing would shift it :(
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at least your tiler didn't get epoxy graphite grey grout on every wall, ceiling, floor, kitchen cupboard, door handles, mugs and glasses like ours did......then spent the entire weekend scrubbing before admitting defeat.
 
glenimp617 said:
at least your tiler didn't get epoxy graphite grey grout on every wall, ceiling, floor, kitchen cupboard, door handles, mugs and glasses like ours did......then spent the entire weekend scrubbing before admitting defeat.
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Oh wow! :eek:
 
glenimp617 said:
If you want a good job doing, it costs money. I've cheaped out before and regretted it.

This was £8k and we're really pleased with it. I'm expecting the bathroom to be a lot more.

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Very nice, but I would probably like a slightly bigger mirror.
 
Nice finish

{SAS}TB said:
Yeah, me too although the flush on the WC is serviceable, to a degree, through the flush plate once removed
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rimless toilet flush is as good as rimmed now, from relation install - I guess that's what you have.

I prefer a direct light onto you face & beneath, for shaving, with either extendable mag mirror, or another mirror w/o basin beneath;
shower - having ability to position non-rainfall one at shoulder level for most of time when don't wash hair is another must have (relations mirra digital has vertical water tube from celing that, that, runs on)
 
Ours was done just before Christmas....let me look for some photos. It was "about 8 grand". I ripped out the old one myself and disposed of all the waste. Upstairs was done earlier in 2024 for "about 6 grand"
 
? plugs not stuck at the end where you want to move around taking a shower though .. have removed the plug from ours otherwise you easily stand on it, and could break it, or push it in.
( The mechanism and leverage system, from bath side, to plug always looks a liability if it broke or had to be replaced.)
my reproach on that design is that having a continuous counter has pushed the toilet into the middle and it could have been flusher (against the wall)
Finding good bathroom storage is difficult though (the paraphernalia of toothbrushes|paste / soaps ...)
 
jpaul said:
Nice finish


rimless toilet flush is as good as rimmed now, from relation install - I guess that's what you have.

I prefer a direct light onto you face & beneath, for shaving, with either extendable mag mirror, or another mirror w/o basin beneath;
shower - having ability to position non-rainfall one at shoulder level for most of time when don't wash hair is another must have (relations mirra digital has vertical water tube from celing that, that, runs on)
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Thanks !

I have a shaving mirror at head hight in front of a window in our ensuite form shaving

The sowers in the other bathroom and ensuite are adjustable and removable - this being a fixed head we opted for the hand attachment as well which is demountable and flexible

sigma said:
If they went as far as ripping the floor up how come you still have a step into the shower?
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To help with the "framing" of the shower (along with the contrasting / feature tiles) area- there is also the drop bulkhead to compliment it

It was a design decision

Buffman said:
Damn that looks great!
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Thanks ! :D

john_smith said:
I think we have similar tastes.









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Very nice !
200sols said:
No bog roll holder?
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Believe it or not it was an "essential" on the Mrs' list as there isn't one in the other two and hadn't been one in the old bathroom

I used t pyramid stack them and have a few in the go at aoce, which drove her mad

I have to buy two more and we got the bathroom fitter to put them in the other two rooms in his last day :D
 
Just seems like a trip hazard to me! Aren't walk-in showers all the rage these days? I suppose the lip does help keep the water in.

The one I've built is stepped too and it annoys me but the alternative was to tear half the house down and that's just not going to happen.
 
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sigma said:
Just seems like a trip hazard to me! Aren't walk-in showers all the rage these days? I suppose the lip does help keep the water in.

The one I've built is stepped too and it annoys me but the alternative was to tear half the house down and that's just not going to happen.
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I think they are but you then have the potential for water coming into the main bathroom area

The fitter showed us some walking examples he'd done and some he'd even cut and angled tiles to avoid a tray all together but the designer and Mrs TB decided on the step

I am experienced enough to know when to keep schtum, nod and agree. I really wasn't precious either way and, in the event of any future "discussion", it wasn't my decision :P
 
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