I've been fitting a new bathroom for someone this week, and it has gone wrong from Monday. They are knocking the bathroom and toilet into one. Removing the dividing wall went fine on Monday, but knocking off the tiles revealed another layer of tiles beneath, and these were held on with cement that was so hard that either the tile had to be smashed up, or it ripped off the plaster top finish. Started to fit the bath on Tuesday. This is a B+Q bath suite. Be warned, they are crap. Firstly it was noticeable how thin the GRP bath body is - you really can see the sun shine through it. Went to fit the stands, with the supplied screws, strange, they only went in 2 or 3 mm then ripped out the chipboard. Closer inspection showed the countersinked holes were on the wrong side, so the supplied screws would never screw in tight. So, sorted that, then got it level. This bath was the wobbliest I have ever fitted (though I've only fitted around 10 baths). Extra supports and wedges were needed all round, even though it was perfectly level on a good floor. With a few other things needing doing, it took me all day to do that. So, onto the toilet today. It was being put onto new floor tiles, so get the plumbing sorted first, then lay a sheet of ply, lay the tiles where the pan was going to be, leave it a couple of hours, then fit the toilet. In theory. The existing pipework was a nightmare that had never been touched since the house was built. I'd fit a new joint, turn on the water, then find a leak further down. This went on until dinner time, when I thought all the leaks were sorted, so the ply around the toilet could be laid. Then I went down to fetch something, and noticed wet on the kitchen worktop. Back up, checking all the pipes - no joints leaking at all. Shining a torch under the floorboards showed a puddle under the wash basin, that'd be the wash basin I hadnt touched. So, needed to take the basin out to get access to the floorboard under it. Did that, plulled up the floorboards to find the cold feed pipe to the basin was so corroded that the movemet further down the line had caused it to spring a leak. Shite, another hour later, a new pipe had been fitted. Back to the toilet. Tiles down now at 2pm, so should be able to put the toilet in at 4pm ish. A picture of a similar bath suite is here:
So, if you are after a bathroom suite, be wary of this stuff, as it is a nightmare to fit, and the bath is quite poor quality. Alan.