Bathroom rebuild - Work in progress

[davemulheran]

Riiiight.. here goes....

Been in our first house nearly 2 years now. We've (I'VE!) done everything else bar the bathroom. Its 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 Scruff for the advice!)

Now you see it...



Now you dont!


Ive taken quite a lot out.. here is the innocent looking doorway to the bathroom



AND 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 http://www.taptilecontrols.com/

6 of these downlights

an airflow icon15 extractor fan

and some Polk RC60i ceiling speakers

and a couple of remote water isolation switches http://www.surestop.co.uk/about-us.asp

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

[wine~o]

Looking forward to seeing the pics...

[root]

ooooh whats the prices like on the taptile stuff?

[davemulheran]

Well I paid £150 delivered but subsequently had a response to an email I sent to them direct for a trade price of £75 + vat

DOH!

Looks a cool bit of kit doesnt it! Hope it works!

[root]

it does look pretty good.... i'd be interested to see the kitchen stuff they do as well!!

looking forward to seeing the finished bathroom Dave

[EJJ150847]

Keep the Pics coming.

John

[davemulheran]

Few more bits arrived today, a few boxes from Grohe



concealed cistern



concealed fixed shower head



some taps for the basin

and the most expensive toilet flush ever.. dont ask me WHY! I just thought a flush button with a light ring would be cool!



Oh and the dry deck 20 pump system turned up. Gravity drainage would be a bit of a prob so I thought id get it all pumped away. Kit looks pretty good. Very smart stuff check out the website http://www.dry-deck.co.uk/

[Razor]

Some nice bits n pieces there

Just one question. Is the Dry Deck rated to at least the same LPM as the shower and pump?

[davemulheran]

Hiya, the dry deck is rated at up to 20L per min. More than enough I hope :)

[royaloakcarpentry]

The Dry decs are good, we use them.

[davemulheran]

The Dry decs are good, we use them.

Phew.. before I bought it I was trying to find someone thats used one, but no luck!

Is it easy to set up? have you come across any niggles?

looks all pretty straight forward

[royaloakcarpentry]

The instructions for them are easy to follow and also they give min/max dimensions from shower gully, stack etc etc.

They are not very quiet, by the way.

[davemulheran]

Woohoo,bath has arrived.





I also did a bit of boxing out in the downstairs cloakroom ready to tile/fit concealed cistern loo/sink






AND.. I decided to tile the kitchen! First ever time tiling a wall... not too bad I hope!











absolute nightmare as no walls were straight! im just about to finish the window surround today, then i'll grout in a few days once fully dry!

[davemulheran]

Few more niggly things done.. kitchen is fully tiled now, no pics as need to grout it all.

[mcluma]

very interesting to know how the dry deck will work for you. nice to see that it can work on a 22mm outlet

keep the pics comming