Help!: Bathroom floor

[willtile]

Hello chaps, been away a long time, and had to reregister. I trained at NETT a couple of years ago. And i've not dpne much tilling for 12 months. A mate has asked me to do his bathrrom floor - at the moment the toilet and sink pedestal are attached directly to the floor boards, and the floor boards are all thats down on the floor. If im gonna ply out the floor with 12 mm ply, and then tile on top, using ceramic tiles with flexi addy, the toilet and pedestal will be raised up by about 20mm. How would i then sort out reconnecting the sink and toilet etc? Would i need a flexi hose for the toilet? What about the sink and pedestal? I would tile round them, but cant really cut the ply round the toilet and pedestal, then tile rouind them - think it would look rubbish. Whats the best solution?

[Dave]

I think the best solution is to remove toilet and pedestal and tile under....this will be the neatest way...the fittings and pipe work can be altered to suit the height change...

[willtile]

just wondering how to get round the toilet being raised up 2 cm. Flexi connector the best way? Also, the sink is fixed to the wall, fischer fixings i thin,

[Dave]

mmmmm...you might need to change 2 wall tiles then....might see the old holes where the fixings were on the wall....just depends on how much tolerance there is....

The toilet can be overcome either with an offset waste or a multi quick..which ever is easiest for you....flexi connectors for the taps and cold feed on the toilet..

[doug boardley]

what are fischer fixings?

[Oli]

You may well find that the taps are fitted with flexi connectors anyway, which may have 20mm of play in them, the toilet waste can just be replaced with a flexi or offset connector, which you should be able to get from any diy shop or plumbers merchant. If main problem will be the toilet inlet pipe which most likely will not be fitted with a flexi connector and may need extending if theres no play in the pipes. Id do as Dave suggested and remove them then tile if you can.

[Gazebo]

Hi Fischer fixings are a brand name and come in many guises, but the ones in question here are basin fixings which are threaded studs with a tapered screw thread the other end for the wall fixing and a back nut and plastic washer the tighten up onto the basin, normally found under wall mounted basins but also some pedestal basins, hope this helps, also dependent on existing pan connection an offset multiquik may work (they do a 40mm offset now) Mcalpine also do similar pan connecttions.
Be good
Gary