It's full speed ahead with the bathroom refit here!
Took the old tiles of the wall, and huge sheets of the plaster behind decided it didn't want to part company with the tiles!
...cue a few hours with an air chisel...I have now taken almost all the old plaster off the (9" brick) walls, just about 5% left to remove...
Now, I was intending on chasing out the (solid) floor to run the water pipes between the various things in the bathroom, with the space under the bath as the main distribution point but am thinking the walls may be easier.
The plaster that came off was really thick, I reckon 22mm pipe would have been lost in there!
How thick does modern plaster go on?
We intend to tile the walls ultimately, so would we only need to plaster the walls with bonding plaster, and forget about the finishing plaster?
We have a whirlpool bath to go in, we also have one in the en suite, when this was put in many many years ago, the builders (It was an extension, not just a bathroom fitment) put a small consumer unit with a 30mA RCD in the vanity unit to supply the power to the bath - the house already has 30mA RCD's so this bath has two.
I assume this is not necessary, or recommended, as cascading RCD's is not good - I plan to take a spur off the ringmain for the bath, but where do I put the FCU? I am going to install a fan isolator on the wall above the door, outside the bathroom, should I put it here so it is near and accessible, but also outside the bathroom? Sounds like the logical place to me..
Due to the price of copper pipes being stupid, I plan to do almost everything in plastic. The only exception may be the feed to the towel radiator, as these pipes will be partially visible (the pipes will pop through the wall from the other side then bend 90 degrees so I can install the TRV with it's head along the wall, rather than sticking out from it (The door may hit it if it sticks out)
Alternatively, can I install this with the head pointing down, so the feeding pipes go in where the current radiator connector is in the picture?
ta :-)