Pictures: Demolition bathroom

[macten]

Had a couple of weeks free so agreed to do a friend's bathroom at mates rates - said I wouldn't do anymore but moving in to new house soon so I am grabbing. Typically the weekend before I start I did 5 quotes and got them all so in the 4 days I've worked there I've left them with new toilet and bath and will finish between proper paying jobs.

Never took the before pictures but the bathroom was tiny and in a right state. Tuesday involved tearing down 2 walls and ripping out.
Next day was studding out 2 new walls and taking all the plaster and old tiles off back to brick work.









The old lead toilet waste was a right pain. Absolutely minced up coming through window wall, had been leaking on and off for years and was just blobbed with 2 tubes of silicone. Had a big hole in it so sewage must have been dripping down the exterior walls cavity

Now normally I would remove the cast iron soil stack from the joint and above and replace with plastic but this was too costly for him. So got it watertight with a hacksaw, hammer, pan conn minus ribs and plumber's mate.

[whitebeam]

Hope your making something out off this, there's a lot of work there

[macten]

The 2 added blocks are for the shower screen fixings.

[macten]

After a bit of advice from Ed (Aston Tiling) I set about drylining the brick work that was well out - and I mean really bad.









To be tiled: Door wall, bath wall (bath to ceiling) then half wall over basin continuing half wall window/toilet.
Had to stop drylining window wall as the wall leans towards you so much at the top that you can't put another board on plumb. A spreader will finish untiled areas off later.

[macten]

Is as far as I got after 4 days. Proper job starts tomorrow so will get back to this when I can.
The whole house is on the tilt and the floor slopes down from bath wall to opposing wall. With the limited budget I shall be tiling flat but not level. Not ideal I know but this is the compromise you have to make when doing some mates rates job. This is definitely the last one!

[whitebeam]

On one of the photos their are some very slim boards, is this boards that have been cut to fit, so to speak

[Burnsy]

On one of the photos their are some very slim boards, is this boards that have been cut to fit, so to speak

My guess is cut to get up the stairs

[macten]

Yeah, made the mistake of buying the really big boards and there is absolutely no space to work, house is tiny and cluttered with crap, had to cut boards on the road whilst dodging traffic

[puddle]

looking good,they must be pleased with work done so far ,hopefully you will fit all the work in ok

[macten]

Had last 3 days off to finish this - well my bit anyway. They still need to get in a plasterer to sort walls and put in a new level ceiling. Lick of paint and then I'll pop back to put towel rad in.
Done on a budget and all the mats/fittings including suite, rad, and tiles came in at under £800 which I think is really impressive.

[macten]

[garretridge]

looks good mate you friend must be delighted with that result! hate doing mates they never understand the true costs or work involved!