How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Who've you got to fit? We're up the road in Stretford and looking at getting bathroom done towards the end of the year

Terrazzo about to be cut.
Lets see how it goes.
Much excite.

Building the floor up was a chore, note to anyone else, if you are not using porcelain tiles consider how the floor is being built up.

Scaffolders have turned up a week late (after I threatened to have the builders dismantle it and leave it on the road outside the house) and they have asked if the kettle is on. Unbelievable cheek.

I’m not a cunt so they’ll get one. But they can wait until they’ve actually done some work.

Tell them to do one and get some work done before they get a cuppa otherwise you are setting a precedence.

This lot won’t be doing the garage scaffolding. He was cheap but insanely unreliable. He pays his lads £80 a day cash and then acts surprised when they don’t turn up. He’s been delayed by his own workers scrapping in the past.

These guys - http://www.lymedesignandbuild.co.uk/
Its part of a bigger whole house refurb, and they're getting their regular sub-contractors to do tiling, plumbing etc . The architect seems to hold them in good regard, and quotes have been competitive . Work hasn't stated yet so I cant comment on end quality yet

Its Lord of the Pies in the town centre currently making me fat...

@chrisbmx116 updates plz 👀

clear windows from downstairs shower room into family room

Naturists? Voyeurs? Hippies? The mind boggles.

Hopefully it’ll be a 20-year house so I’m keen to do it properly, but despite a general reluctance to compromise I can only dream of it being done 300k properly.

Know that feel bro. On the plus side, I suspect this will be true especially if you get a few quotes

As we’re now out of London I’m at least optimistic that the builder costs will be lower than what I’m used to

It will be like one of those moments I always envy on property programmes filmed outside London and they get a quote for work and I'm all how is that possible?!

He doesn't bike he runs.

Ban him!

Looks good so far!

How did you sort the poo pipe issue in the end? Is it invisible from the outside? I have decided I want to do that now, which is all your fault.

Will the white flush thing match something else?

It does mean he doesn't need a giant shed in his garden though.

Soooooooooooon.
Struggling to get a decent pic, colour balance is way off.

I hope it gives you as much pain as my "truth in material" terrazzo tiles.

Its all boxed inside, behind the sink and concealed cistern, there is the single vertical run on the outside but its just a single straight vertical, not sure how I will deal with it when the loft is done.

Oh and the white flush matches the toilet and bath and sink...

@chrisbmx116 does this upset you

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Could you not have fixed it before the tiling was finished, that would annoy the life out me.

probably not even in the top 5 most annoying misaligned things in this house I've had to learn to love, laugh, live with

Before I comment I’m going to have to go check all my taps, I was aligning so many things I prob missed something.

This is a good illustration of how much detail you need to go into when planning these things (if it’s important to you).

My bathroom has pretty much broken me, I’m done.

Thats one of the reasons we dont do bathrooms for folk, its a fuckin pain in the hole.

Oh do you do bathrooms and stuff? Yeah, I can imagine, so many variables and moving parts.

My main problem is champagne taste and lemonade budget, throw money at anything and you can make it happen (for instance if I had the money I would have paid an architect 2.5K to design this bathroom).

Very rarely do them, they just aren’t worth the hassle for the money you end up charging. Far easier to do gas, heating and bits n bobs plumbing.

Can someone answer what I'm sure ought to be a very basic question. When during the process of a bathroom refurb do you fit a new floor?

If it can wait until after everything else, that would make our lives a lot easier. The toilet pan would presumably need to be removed and refitted after. With the shower tray, you would just lay the floor up to it rather than underneath?

(Would be a rubber or vinyl floor - sadly wife vetoes cork)

Pretty sure from speaking to my plumber mate that you want to do the floor early-ish on so you get better waterproofing round the edges of things - certainly if you're tiling floor + walls you do floor first.

I think round the shower tray may be a prime area where that applies - you want the tiles underneath the lip as far as you can so less chance of water getting through if the grout gets wet, damaged etc

Whats the benefit to you of doing it last?