Thought I would share my experience here seeing as I have used this site many times for its wealth of knowledge.
Owned my house for just over 2 years now, the bathroom has always bothered me and the Mrs, nothing really worked very well taps, shower etc so it was time to rip it out. I am certainly no expert when it comes to DIY and this is my first bathroom, but I have done plumbing at college in the past and grown up watching the old man rip apart every house I ever lived in
Firstly the before photos, a must with any project so you can remind yourself of why you started this project when things start going wrong
Water Damage behind the bath... the whole bathroom had MR plasterboard but obviously when this bathroom was fitted rather than replace the board on the bath walls they have just stuck 9mm plasterboard over the top, which was so wet it just fell off.
Blank Canvas, the house is timber frame (built in 1991)
This branch has to go under the floor for the new layout.
Possibly the worst job, i had to cut the soil stack below the level of the ceiling, Multimaster is your friend for this job.
The New Branch in place
Rad pipes moved into the wall cavity.
Electric shower, moved the plumbing up as the old shower was too low for my liking.
Floor back down and new boards almost finished, used Glasroc H tilebacker... good stuff but expensive @ £23 a m2, comes in nice 1200 x 900 sheets ideal for small bathrooms and a one man installation team.
Bath and Vanity in
Toilet and semi recessed basin installed... cutting the worktop is a bugger probably because i didn't want to cut to much, used the template but it was not big enough I found.
Tiling almost complete and ply down on the floor ready for the vinyl flooring. I tiled the feature wall but got a friend to help with the rest to speed things up.
Its virtually finished now just waiting for the floor to go down in the next few days - Time wise I took 1 week off work and spent another 3 weeks doing it after work and weekends. Cost wise around the £3000 mark including everything.
