My en suite is overdue for a refresh.
I put some new vinyl flooring down, bought some basin and wc vanity units and cut the wc one for slimmer fit and to hold a saniflow.
The shower unit is larger and the panelling more extensive.
Upvc panels are shown as being trivially easy to fit. Esp if your walls are all square, vertical and well surfaced. It is also much easier if no actual shower plumbing is involved as shown on youtube.
In practice, my walls are Victorian terrace wonkey . I have conventional 150mm water pipe spacing. How do you attach a mixer bar to the panel/wall. All the solutions involve having sound anchor points on the wall .
I ended up creating a upvc/hardwood panel by dremelling out the rear and gluing in an 8mm thick pit of hardwood, drilled for 2 pipes. Same for shower head vertical bar.
Cutouts to avoid bits of stuff attached to wall. Measure twice cut once. Hope always.
Finally checked for fitt tonight but one side is a bit shy of the pvc coving. I ripped down the coving and will glue in place with the panel then fill the gap above.
This is not simple or easy!
I put some new vinyl flooring down, bought some basin and wc vanity units and cut the wc one for slimmer fit and to hold a saniflow.
The shower unit is larger and the panelling more extensive.
Upvc panels are shown as being trivially easy to fit. Esp if your walls are all square, vertical and well surfaced. It is also much easier if no actual shower plumbing is involved as shown on youtube.
In practice, my walls are Victorian terrace wonkey . I have conventional 150mm water pipe spacing. How do you attach a mixer bar to the panel/wall. All the solutions involve having sound anchor points on the wall .
I ended up creating a upvc/hardwood panel by dremelling out the rear and gluing in an 8mm thick pit of hardwood, drilled for 2 pipes. Same for shower head vertical bar.
Cutouts to avoid bits of stuff attached to wall. Measure twice cut once. Hope always.
Finally checked for fitt tonight but one side is a bit shy of the pvc coving. I ripped down the coving and will glue in place with the panel then fill the gap above.
This is not simple or easy!
