Bathroom Reno @ Golfers Pde

Because modern bathrooms don't have as much fall (or slope) on the floors as those in days gone by, new bathrooms have waterproof membranes installed in wet areas to make sure that water splashed around or in a shower goes where it should - down the drain and not, for example, out into a living room or carpeted area. Waterproofing membrane comes as a thick liquid in big tubs and is sort of painted/smeared onto the surfaces requiring waterproofing. In our case, the membrane product was bright blue - as were my clothes after the job was done. Anne also had a similar experience when she was applying the tile grip product to the old tiled and painted surfaces. The grip product has fine sand-like stuff suspended in a gluey liquid. Using a roller meant that this stuff splattered out as it rolled and Anne was covered in fine grains of gritty stuff glued to her, her clothes, the roller, the ladder - and everything else with a radius of 1.5 metres of her - ideal for social distancing! The ...

The first part of the rebuild was to add a new bed of mortar to the rough concrete floor. The new screed bed of mortar just after it was put down. The new mortar bed had to cure for two weeks before we could think about tiling the floor. This gave us time to work on the new walls. As we were moving the washing machine from beside the old vanity to the other side of the bathroom and into a partitioned off area, we needed a way to get services to the new laundry. There was a power point in the proposed new laundry area, but we needed to get hot and cold water to it and some way to get the waste water into the sewerage system. We had considered burrowing through the wall behind the new laundry but that's straight into the back of the kitchen cupboards and there wasn't enough clearance for the pipes behind the cupboards. Plan B was more elegant - but a lot more work. We built a new stud wall against the existing brick wall of the bathroom and ran the services through that. It meant...

Renovating a Bathroom During Covid19 Lockdown Hi All I've composed a couple of blogs over the past several years - mainly to inform friends about the major renovation of our current home and about our overseas trips. By comparison, this is only a very short blog comprising mainly photos of the current project as it progressed from demolition of the old bathroom to construction of the new. We've been meaning to update this old bathroom since we completed the upstairs reno but things kept getting in the way. We've put in a new ceiling in the downstairs (the area we call "the flat") and painted throughout - but the bathroom was always the "we'll do that one day" thing. We had removed the old wallpaper and painted the un-tiled parts of the bathroom walls but that was about it. The bathroom incorporated a laundry of sorts - a washing machine plumbed into the side of the vanity unit (very poorly I might add with exposed copper pipes and waste water inlet),...

Here are some photos as we started the demolition of the old bathroom. The old bathroom with the vanity removed - washing machine & toilet still in place. The shower screen removed. Fun with a 5kg sledge hammer A shower recess no more - just a pile of rubble The toilet went the same way as the shower walls - smashed with the sledge hammer and loaded into a trailer for recycling as building material. The floor after the little mozaic tiles and under-screed were jack hammered up. The wall where the vanity and toilet used to be after the tiles had been jack hammered off Of course we discovered problems - mainly with the old 40 year old plumbing. All the demolition work caused some of the fittings to give up the ghost and start leaking! More jack hammer work! A leaking copper fitting This necessitated jack hammering a big hole in the the wall and re-routing the plumbing. It also meant that we couldn't use the existing shower outlet but would have to come up with an alternative to h...