Recent content by diyhelpmeplease

Thanks for the advice. All done now. I can't say that was enjoyable. Not sure if I had a bad gun or just crap skills but the silicone was coming out like little maggots. I cut the top again to make the hole larger (at an angle of 45 degrees) which did help somewhat but it felt like it needed a...

Hi there While replacing the bath panel, I have decided it is a good time to attempt to redo the silicone around the bath as there are a few black mouldy looking areas and around the taps is yellow and black. I have removed the old silicone as best I can using a stanley knife, a credit card and...

Not easy when you are colour blind haha. I may have to go back for a colour matched one with a friend who has good colour sight :)

I popped to B&Q at lunch and grabbed a strip of 12mm scotia moulding so will see how it looks tonight. Thank you for your advice - much appreciated.

A few more photos with some rough cuts of plastic strip and a bit of the uPVC quadrant and a bit of MDF just to get an idea of how awful they all look

Thank you for the kind words. I would prefer not to add a strip. The cost of the vinyl would be very little as the bathroom is the length of a bath and not as wide. Having never put down vinyl or carpet I am concerned it may require skill gained from years of experience. I would in theory have a...

Thanks for the reply. Perhaps the slimmer size of this could work better than the 17mm uPVC quadrant I did try. The 17mm quadrant looked really odd and bulky and took away from the idea of the clean step from the panel back to the plinth

Thanks for the reply. Not sure what you mean by skirting.

I decided to have a go at replacing a cracked bath panel on a wall to wall bath with a home made panel. I created the panel from tongue and groove moisture resistant MDF using vertical pieces with 6mm plywood backing. This sandwich tucks into the hook of the bath at the top. I created a 120mm...