Steve's bathroom refit

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I've been working on a little project in my bathroom.

The existing bathroom was OK, but the existing shower in its cubicle didnt work, as it was a power shower and we only have mains pressure water now since the boiler was replaced. But we couldnt access the rear of the shower to supply new pipework to it.

Also, the old floor tiles were coming up in places. The whole floor needed ripping up as the wood underneath had swollen due to a leak.

So I began. . .
Ripping off tiles from one external wall, all the plaster followed (house is 100yo).

Ripped out the old shower cubicle (which was at the end of the bath. Both the bath and shower base had been built into the walls at both ends to fit them in along this wall). Also floor tiles been taken up. They were laid on hardboard which was well fixed down. Though it later transpired that the floorboards below hadnt been screwed down after being replaced probably 30 years ago.

Now there's a time gap. This project has taken since mid January to get as far as it is today thanks to work problems.

I dotted and dabbed the external wall where the plaster came off. The other walls were stud walls, lath and plaster overboarded with pb, which the tiles came off of without much bother.

Unfortunately, being a 2 up 2 down means we only have this one bathroom and set of facilities, so everything had to be done around the toilet and bath. We coped without a basin for a couple of weeks.

So, I tiled the external wall (where the basin and wc are sited), and tiled the floor where they were going to be sat. Then the plumber could come and fit them both.
(old toilet)
Hit a snag in the window recess. It had been tiled before, but the reveal is plastic, and when I tried to tile it, the tiles fell off. Think it was because I was using readymix. But I fixed some plasterboard into the reveal and tiled onto that, all is well now.

We decided against a dedicated shower cubicle in the new bathroom, and had a P shaped bath instead. This is the Liberty bath from bathstore, and it is very well built and designed. It is meant for a in-wall tap/shower mixer and an overflow filler, but I couldnt afford that combo so I opted for a standard mixer tap mounted in the most ergonomic place we could come up with.
Pipework for the shower in the newly boarded wall (this wall had been framed out previously to accomodate the old shower unit inside the cubicle)

Here is a bunch of photos that show various parts of the final stages of the bathroom (in the order they are taken).



(My plumber lent me his grinder to cut the intricate bits out of the porcelain floor tiles. Dont know how I'd have done it otherwise. First time using a grinder, I impresed myself.)
 
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masking tape, im assuming, was to get that neat bead of silicone around the toilet. i have used that technique before getting good results.
 
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masking tape, im assuming, was to get that neat bead of silicone around the toilet. i have used that technique before getting good results.

ESP on black or dark tiles.

I use clear on black.
 
i can't see it myself, as you can see by OP's picture there are a tad too many straight angles on the toilet bead.
 

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