Replacing a Bathroom

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Looks heavy that mate - hows it getting upstairs?

Hose outside is fine. Unless there are females about.

cutting a hole in the roof and getting Ainscoughs round.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

If you can afford to do that now then it is a no brainer. Long as worst comes to the worst the money spent now doesn't cripple you from changing it later then it isn't a problem. As it's probably more enclosed than a standard shower the trick is to keep it clean (and dry) so mould doesn't set in.

tbh you have to do that with 'normal' showers & there's no silicon to go black & the rest of the bathroom doesn't get damp. with hard water your forever cleaning it anyway or the glass gets limescale stains on it.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

The only thing I see being a possible problem is where the drain can go, it would have to come out of the front corner & along the wall, i need to find out if the tray has any positions allowing for the pipe to exit

 

[chrismpw]

If only ashtonian were here to give bathroom advice.

 

[orly]

£6k is generously cheap tbh

I'd pay £15k for ours and it's hardly Cleopatra's salle de bains

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

£6k is generously cheap tbh

I'd pay £15k for ours and it's hardly Cleopatra's salle de bains

it's the length of a bath & the width of a bath & door + a foot.

6k for a weeks work is in no way 'generously cheap' not in anyone's book.

 

[chrismpw]

6k isn't cheap if you have to work 3 months yourself to earn that, like most people do. How have we got to the stage where 3 months work is cheap?

Is why I do pretty much everything myself!

 

[orly]

it's the length of a bath & the width of a bath & door + a foot.

6k for a weeks work is in no way 'generously cheap' not in anyone's book.

*shrug*

I'm a useless moron, I can't do it myself, so if a skilled, well-rated tradesman quotes me something I think is reasonable and can do it in short order, happy to pay a premium

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Our bathroom is absolutely stuffed, the shower was leaking (& now bust since Jan) so the kitchen ceiling is also stuffed, it may be that floorboards under the bath are also stuffed too so it is a case of ripping it all out. Anyway we had some round to give quotes in Feb and it was gonna be about 6 Grand, seems they want to charge 4k for about a weeks work MAX so thats not happening.

The 'solution' appears to be to buy 1 of the self contained shower cabins to eliminate the chance of it leaking all over again, have any of you got 1 ?
As i say it seems like the 'easy' option as it only needs connecting up to the water supply & the drain, it cuts down on a great deal of the tiling so money saved there as well & I feel that it's well within my skill set. I wouldn't feel confident ripping out the bath & fitting a 'traditional' shower enclosure as far too many mistakes to be made that could render the whole job a waste of time & way too many things to pay 'expensive' folk to do.

The bathroom is very pokey btw so we're incredibly limited with what we are able to do due to the maximum width we can get being 700mm.

It's of this 'type' that I'm thinking of, dont want steam etc as we have rock hard water that wrecks everything so the steam gen would last about a year like all the leccy showers have.
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Would love to take a bird back to that fancy shower like

 

[sageyefc]

Your home insured ?

Spoiler

 

[orly]

@sageyefc is definitely in top 5 all time GOT posters btw

 

[sageyefc]

@sageyefc is definitely in top 5 all time GOT posters btw

Too kind mein frandel

 

[Joey66]

Six grand sounds reasonable to me, but there`s no way it`s getting done in a week, especially if the kitchen ceiling needs doing too, as that`s a big job by itself and they won`t know how bad things are until they can get a proper look.

If the kitchen ceiling is gone, that`s the first job and if you think about it logically it could involve replacing joists, plumbing, elecs and plastering. There`s a few days at least.

Six grand fgs get estimates three at least, and use well recommended small firms - to advise and get a good no nosence job done ......ceiling how much is plaster board and skimming plaster cost fgs as for a shower a Mira is the Rolls Royce as for needing wifi fgs turn it on brush your teeth and the shower waters perfect to shower in..... lol

 

[Joey66]

Our bathroom is absolutely stuffed, the shower was leaking (& now bust since Jan) so the kitchen ceiling is also stuffed, it may be that floorboards under the bath are also stuffed too so it is a case of ripping it all out. Anyway we had some round to give quotes in Feb and it was gonna be about 6 Grand, seems they want to charge 4k for about a weeks work MAX so thats not happening.

The 'solution' appears to be to buy 1 of the self contained shower cabins to eliminate the chance of it leaking all over again, have any of you got 1 ?
As i say it seems like the 'easy' option as it only needs connecting up to the water supply & the drain, it cuts down on a great deal of the tiling so money saved there as well & I feel that it's well within my skill set. I wouldn't feel confident ripping out the bath & fitting a 'traditional' shower enclosure as far too many mistakes to be made that could render the whole job a waste of time & way too many things to pay 'expensive' folk to do.

The bathroom is very pokey btw so we're incredibly limited with what we are able to do due to the maximum width we can get being 700mm.

It's of this 'type' that I'm thinking of, dont want steam etc as we have rock hard water that wrecks everything so the steam gen would last about a year like all the leccy showers have.
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Can you fit in that ? more buttons than the tardis......ha get three estimates for a good roomy shower

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Can you fit in that ? more buttons than the tardis......ha get three estimates for a good roomy shower

most of them are water jets, sod getting the 1 with the control panel cos my specs would steam up anyway, the lights can go disco as well btw