Hello
First off I'd just like to state that as far as DIY, especially plumbing is concerned, I'm largely useless. I'm here because I'm about to get someone in to do a job for me in my bathroom and I just want to make sure I have the right information before I agree to their proposal.
The situation is this; I have a bathroom next to a bedroom. The wall between these rooms is now wet due to leaking sealant and poorly grouted tiles. So I've got a company to dry out the wall, replaster on the bedroom side, and completely re-fit my bathroom (which was due to be done anyway). The bathroom isn't very big, and at the moment as you walk into the room, the bath runs the length of the room on the left. There's a gas powered shower, but because of how the bath is laid out, the shower valve is fitted into a wall on the other side of which is the boiler (from the top view layout, think of my bathroom as sort of like a left handed L shaped bath).
As part of the refit, I'm having the bath moved, so that its across the room as you walk in. This means that the shower head is going to be on the left hand wall, the other side of which is the bedroom. I've ordered a 3 control bath valve that will control the bath and shower from a single valve (this one: http://www.bathstore.com/products/metro-vertical-thermostatic-shower-bath-valve-284.html ). However, the valve controller unit bit that sits behind the on/off controllers is massive (to me at least), almost like a brick. The wall it's going into is going to be tiled, but in order to seat this unit behind the tiles, I'm thinking that we're going to need to take a brick out of the wall in order to accommodate it. This doesn't seem like a good idea to me, but I don't know for sure. The wall it's going into is, as far as I know, just a brick wall with cement board on the bathroom side and plaster board on the other. Does this sound like standard practice to you guys or am I creating big problems for myself further down the line by weakening the wall structure?
Again, please bear in mind I know next to nothing (I'm an IT guy, so give me a laptop and I'm fine, but give me DIY...well..)
Thanks everyone
First off I'd just like to state that as far as DIY, especially plumbing is concerned, I'm largely useless. I'm here because I'm about to get someone in to do a job for me in my bathroom and I just want to make sure I have the right information before I agree to their proposal.
The situation is this; I have a bathroom next to a bedroom. The wall between these rooms is now wet due to leaking sealant and poorly grouted tiles. So I've got a company to dry out the wall, replaster on the bedroom side, and completely re-fit my bathroom (which was due to be done anyway). The bathroom isn't very big, and at the moment as you walk into the room, the bath runs the length of the room on the left. There's a gas powered shower, but because of how the bath is laid out, the shower valve is fitted into a wall on the other side of which is the boiler (from the top view layout, think of my bathroom as sort of like a left handed L shaped bath).
As part of the refit, I'm having the bath moved, so that its across the room as you walk in. This means that the shower head is going to be on the left hand wall, the other side of which is the bedroom. I've ordered a 3 control bath valve that will control the bath and shower from a single valve (this one: http://www.bathstore.com/products/metro-vertical-thermostatic-shower-bath-valve-284.html ). However, the valve controller unit bit that sits behind the on/off controllers is massive (to me at least), almost like a brick. The wall it's going into is going to be tiled, but in order to seat this unit behind the tiles, I'm thinking that we're going to need to take a brick out of the wall in order to accommodate it. This doesn't seem like a good idea to me, but I don't know for sure. The wall it's going into is, as far as I know, just a brick wall with cement board on the bathroom side and plaster board on the other. Does this sound like standard practice to you guys or am I creating big problems for myself further down the line by weakening the wall structure?
Again, please bear in mind I know next to nothing (I'm an IT guy, so give me a laptop and I'm fine, but give me DIY...well..)
Thanks everyone