Bathrooms are complicated!

[Tim Watts]

Huge wibbled on Monday 09 August 2010 15:17

I will always see the 3mm scratch on the chromy cistern pipe from the pipe bender. Probably no one else will. At least it's vertical. Mostly.

That was a bit of a saga. I'd laser lined the hole in the ceiling ages ago to accept a vertical pipe from an elbow-tap-connector straight off the cistern valve, with only one slight bend back planned for the pipe.

Then I decided the supplied valve was a fliddy piece of crap with a plastic pipe thread (ack!), so I replaced with a Fluidmaster Pro that has a less fliddy looking float (it slides up and down the fill pipe rather than bouncing around in mid air) and a proper brass thread. However, (of course I suppose, in retrospect) the brass was machined to take an olive for a compression fit, not a tap connector.

So I had to run a 30-ish mm bit of pipe out of it to an elbow - so now I have a choice of drill another hole in the ceiling and make good the old one, or put 3 bends in the pipe. I chose the latter. Looks fine, but just goes to show - no matter how much detailed planning you do, you're always at home to Mr Cockup ;->

[Jules Richardson]

:-) I have horrible memories of Barratt houses... all looking identical, all made of snot and cardboard and with featureless gardens (similar things exist on this side of the Pond too, albeit on a bit larger scale). Perhaps most sad is that often really interesting buildings (or greenery) gets torn down to make way for them...

Nice... the sort of stuff where it'll get scratched and then the moisture will rapidly nuke it - but the builders rely on being long-gone by then?

Although we had lime-green shag-pile in ours when we moved in - very quickly disposed of! Know what you mean about kids, too - they always seem to manage to turn the bathroom into a swimming pool. I'm actually thinking of sloping the floor very slightly and having some form of drainage at the low end ;-)

cheers

Jules

[John Rumm]

I think they call that a "wet room" these days!

[Huge]

A concept I hate more than people apparently hate carpeted bathrooms.

[S Viemeister]

When we bought our house, one of the first things I did, was to remove the carpet from the bathroom and kitchen. The following year, I got rid of the carpet in the laundry room. Ick.

[S Viemeister]

Should be called a 'dry' room...

[Jules Richardson]

It actually wouldn't be too hard to do, either; all our drainage runs via the basement below, so it'd be easy to tap into that via a p-trap.

I suspect that the slope angle needed to promote good drainage would be high enough to be a little off-putting when standing or walking in the room though (and the kids will hopefully grow out of designing tidal wave simulators or whatever the heck it is they do in there :-)

cheers

Jules

[djc]

It only needs a slight slope, I think it's about 1:40 in mine.