Job beyond me so going to 'get a man in'.
Want a bath ripped out and a shower tray installed then make good (my tiling is crap).
What sort of figure (ballpark obs) should I be looking at ?
Bog standard 60's council house.
How much more expensive to make the whole thing a wet room (14' X 12')?
Beware with wetrooms, typically hey only have a small area where the floor dips, the rest is flat. Lots of minor floods result.
NT
wetwall panels :-)
and a shower tray the same size as the bath
Possibly a lot more, especially depending on whether there is space under the floor for a flush waste.
But you can get some almost-level shallow shower trays.
Owain
One positive result of a decision to lay 305x305 tiles in diamond pattern for our utility floor was that it made the adjoining wet room
*slope to drain* invisible.
Can you scam a disability ?, because there are disabled wet-rooms that are supposedly VAT free (but the probably up the pre-vat price).
She is disabled,(basically wife can't cope with showering in the bath anymore[and the OT has kyboshed the workaround we had been using as it was getting too dangerous]) but as it's first floor not ground floor authorities will not even countenance the idea , of them paying. So it is a self financed job, can't even claim the VAT free status like with her other aids.
Fit a waterless trap -
No, don't do it like that. Make the whole floor slope very slightly towards the drain. If you do it will be great. Wet rooms are just so much better than non-wetroom bathrooms. It's a no brainer.
Bill
In fact you only need to buy from a firm that knows how to do the VAT exempt paperwork.
Bill
First floor is good. Bite the bullet and remove the whole of the ceiling below. Sculpt the joists to allow slope towards the drain. Call in specialists to do the floor. The floor should go up the walls about
125mm and end behind the wall boards. Replace the ceiling with ceiling tiles on a grid.not ground floor
You can! I did!
Bill
Sounds W A Y beyond me, beside which, this is a council house, I think they would be a bit miffed if I started "Sculpting joists".
they'd never know.
Knowing my luck, I would be the ONE who was found out.
Unless you manage to get the entire room wet, including the bog.
The next person wil have to swim in and out.
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