Hi All,
I have recently purchased a "modern" estate house. It's actually about 15 years old. The ensuite bathroom needs replacing. In particular the shower is tiny especially for a tall some what larger than ideal guy like myself. So fitting a shower tray 30cm bigger in each direction would be ideal.
The stud wall which divides it off from the bedroom behind actually has a return of around 30 cm behind the door. So moving the wall 30cm would square that off and let me have decent shower. So it sounds like the ideal plan.
The only problem is the wall to be moved runs parallel to the joists. So I believe the new stud will need supporting. Especially if it's going to be tiled on one side. Isn't standard practise to install nogins between the joists to support the new wall? To doubly complicate it on lifitng the first floor board I have discovered one side the joists is one of those engineered I joists roughly 240x50. The other side looks like solid OSB. However I think that's clading a steel. The joists under the bathroom run in the opposite direction and I can see the top of what I assume are the hangers sticking out under the next row of floorboards.
Does anybody know if this makes the job wildly more complicated / expensive? I was planning on doing some of the bathroom myself, but this part is a bit much. So I am going to get quotes, but being a smallish job I am afraid of it attracting cow boys.
I am starting to think this is a lot of work just to have a decent shower!
Charlie
I have recently purchased a "modern" estate house. It's actually about 15 years old. The ensuite bathroom needs replacing. In particular the shower is tiny especially for a tall some what larger than ideal guy like myself. So fitting a shower tray 30cm bigger in each direction would be ideal.
The stud wall which divides it off from the bedroom behind actually has a return of around 30 cm behind the door. So moving the wall 30cm would square that off and let me have decent shower. So it sounds like the ideal plan.
The only problem is the wall to be moved runs parallel to the joists. So I believe the new stud will need supporting. Especially if it's going to be tiled on one side. Isn't standard practise to install nogins between the joists to support the new wall? To doubly complicate it on lifitng the first floor board I have discovered one side the joists is one of those engineered I joists roughly 240x50. The other side looks like solid OSB. However I think that's clading a steel. The joists under the bathroom run in the opposite direction and I can see the top of what I assume are the hangers sticking out under the next row of floorboards.
Does anybody know if this makes the job wildly more complicated / expensive? I was planning on doing some of the bathroom myself, but this part is a bit much. So I am going to get quotes, but being a smallish job I am afraid of it attracting cow boys.
I am starting to think this is a lot of work just to have a decent shower!
Charlie
