Cost of bathroom refurbishment
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stedlocks
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snakehips said:
guess what I do for my full time job
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Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and stedlocks.
stedlocks
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oxbob said:
something like that
Its sound advice though...........we've got everything here under one roof........its like hanging about outside the builders merchants on seven sisters road
gbb
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P shaped paths, they look fabulous. My SIL has one.....wait till you try to fill it
She dare'nt use it for anything other than showers. The time it takes to fill, amd the amount of hot water needed will empty your wallet come the gas bill day
Night Train
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I used to fit bathrooms as I could do all the trades. Don't want to do it any more, too much grief and there was no fun in it.
You could DIY it.
You could DIY it.
Fab Foodie
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Ha, tell me about it... and there are 3 women in the FF house... but, they're good for sharinggbb said:P shaped paths, they look fabulous. My SIL has one.....wait till you try to fill it
She dare'nt use it for anything other than showers. The time it takes to fill, amd the amount of hot water needed will empty your wallet come the gas bill day
Night Train
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What! You share out the 3 women in your household?Fab Foodie said:Ha, tell me about it... and there are 3 women in the FF house... but, they're good for sharing
Seriously though, big baths are good for sharing and you need less water in them when you share.
I prefer deep baths and so I am hanging onto my old, deep, cast iron bath for as long as possible.
mickle
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B&Q suites are terrible shite. Nowt wrong with their tiles though.
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Fab Foodie said:Ha, tell me about it... and there are 3 women in the FF house... but, they're good for sharing
Good for P ing in too -
Mickle - interesting comment as my plumber has just fitted one in his daughter's house and thinks 'it is the business'.
I have been fitting a bathroom since about November
- long story but it involves a P shaped shower bath from Ideal Standard. Not cheap and with an okey cokey 2000 low level waste blah blah. A perfct install was followed by me going to Paris for 
After the original problem - which was diagnosed as fibreglass delamination etc by the technical rep who called in just before Christmas, - I had checked out a lot of quality issues like that and found B&Q finished work to be pretty good. (At least in comparison with Ideal Standard fibreglass work.) Ideal Standard baths are stamped made in the UK. I imagine B&Q are made in the Far East or Eastern Europe?
A tesco torch helped illustrate the issue. The replacement is similar in composition.
And the waste fitting...
stedlocks
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This is my suite ...just finished ( shower screen and bits and bobs not fitted in this picture)
suite £500
Tiles £150
Materials £100
odds and sods £150
you can do it cheap if you DIY it
suite £500
Tiles £150
Materials £100
odds and sods £150
you can do it cheap if you DIY it
mickle
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Aper, maybe they've improved but I had terrible trouble three of four years ago with their own brand pans not being cast very accurately and the fixtures and fittings being sub standard. I remember spending a day driving round all the B&Qs in Bristol because the pan I bought, and in every box I opened had a crack in the same place.
I spent a few months working as a display installer for a posh Bristol bathroom retailer before I got this job and the difference in quality between B&Q stuff and brands like Duravit really is quite astonishing. It's like comparing a Carrera Subway with a Trek Madone.
I spent a few months working as a display installer for a posh Bristol bathroom retailer before I got this job and the difference in quality between B&Q stuff and brands like Duravit really is quite astonishing. It's like comparing a Carrera Subway with a Trek Madone.
the best inexpensive steel baths are by Bette - a German firm. If you can stretch to a heavier gauge of steel then do so - 3.2mm is good, but bear in mind the weight. They're available from builders merchants. Fibre glass baths are not nice, in my view, and I've seen plenty of £10,000 fibre glass jobbies. Steel has an altogether more comforting, more secure feel to it. Your bottom deserves steel.
Basins and w.c.s - check the dimensions carefully. Basins vary from under 50cm wide to well over a metre, but, as a general rule the more ornate 'period' basins are wider, and clumsier looking. If you're stuck for space then the old Ideal Standard Studio range is good, and will never date.
One thing that you really should do if you're changing the sanitaryware is to take the opportunity to take up the floor and check the pipe runs. If you live in an old house the chances are reasonable that some idiot plumber has run pipes through the joists in the wrong location - notching either the top or the bottom rather than drilling a hole through the centre. Those joists should be strengthened.
If, like Patrick, you're getting on in years, consider how you're going to use the bathroom in ten or fifteen years time. Manoeuvring space around the w.c. is important, lever taps are good (there are some stylish ones about), towel rails can double up as support rails if they're securely fixed, that kind of thing. You can always go to Help the Aged for advice. Those grab rails on baths aren't pretty, but none of us, least of all Patrick, are getting younger. Having a different colour wall tile might not be too attractive, but if your sight is failing having spent long hours poring over legal documents.........
Don't go to bathstore.com unless they can assure you that the fittings for the sanitaryware will be available in 15 years time...(or even fifteen months time).
To be honest I detest expensive bathrooms. I've done them from £2000 to £150,000 and the cheaper ones are always the best. Simplicity is all. Getting the tile layout right is the single most important thing. You'll see that Stedlocks has just about hit it spot on, and, for such a small bathroom it really does look unfussed and uncrowded. The rest, or pretty much all of the rest, is rubbish. I'm willing to bet that if I walked into Patrick's bathroom I'd urge him to keep the old stuff, and just spruce it up a bit.
Floor tiles in bathrooms are, in my view, a bad idea. Lino is best, although you should be aware that it fails the slip resistance test, so I'm disclaiming all responsibility. And, finally, does anybody still have one of those bathroom 'sets' which are basically two bits of fluffy rug, one of which is U-shaped, and goes round the 'loo'? I reckon that they're about to be chic again. Rumour has it that Nicky Haslam has one in his bathroom.
Basins and w.c.s - check the dimensions carefully. Basins vary from under 50cm wide to well over a metre, but, as a general rule the more ornate 'period' basins are wider, and clumsier looking. If you're stuck for space then the old Ideal Standard Studio range is good, and will never date.
One thing that you really should do if you're changing the sanitaryware is to take the opportunity to take up the floor and check the pipe runs. If you live in an old house the chances are reasonable that some idiot plumber has run pipes through the joists in the wrong location - notching either the top or the bottom rather than drilling a hole through the centre. Those joists should be strengthened.
If, like Patrick, you're getting on in years, consider how you're going to use the bathroom in ten or fifteen years time. Manoeuvring space around the w.c. is important, lever taps are good (there are some stylish ones about), towel rails can double up as support rails if they're securely fixed, that kind of thing. You can always go to Help the Aged for advice. Those grab rails on baths aren't pretty, but none of us, least of all Patrick, are getting younger. Having a different colour wall tile might not be too attractive, but if your sight is failing having spent long hours poring over legal documents.........
Don't go to bathstore.com unless they can assure you that the fittings for the sanitaryware will be available in 15 years time...(or even fifteen months time).
To be honest I detest expensive bathrooms. I've done them from £2000 to £150,000 and the cheaper ones are always the best. Simplicity is all. Getting the tile layout right is the single most important thing. You'll see that Stedlocks has just about hit it spot on, and, for such a small bathroom it really does look unfussed and uncrowded. The rest, or pretty much all of the rest, is rubbish. I'm willing to bet that if I walked into Patrick's bathroom I'd urge him to keep the old stuff, and just spruce it up a bit.
Floor tiles in bathrooms are, in my view, a bad idea. Lino is best, although you should be aware that it fails the slip resistance test, so I'm disclaiming all responsibility. And, finally, does anybody still have one of those bathroom 'sets' which are basically two bits of fluffy rug, one of which is U-shaped, and goes round the 'loo'? I reckon that they're about to be chic again. Rumour has it that Nicky Haslam has one in his bathroom.
