If you work on the principle that big DIY jobs are never truly finished, they just reach a point where all the stuff that is left to do just gets added to a list ;-)
A long rambling tale for them that like that kind of stuff:
An interesting story, and a good looking job.
Chris
I don't think *any* of mine ever get even approximately finished.
I need to get some skirting for the bathroom; the previous incompetent used dado rail as skirting. (And some of my tiles have fallen off.)
Owain
In message , John Rumm writes
Fuck. John takes less time to completely refit two bathrooms than I take to rip out a shower, bog and basin, and fit one end cap :-)
Great job.
Yeah - John's annoying like that :->>>
I've had the pleasure of meeting him personally and he's a damn fine bloke. Adam too.
Actually, I was quite relieved to get to the end and find that he'd taken 4 months, which was about what last big bathroom refurb took. I expected him to have done it in about 4 weekends!
Agreed.
That would have been nice... but not going to happen for so many reasons alas!
I had about two weeks full time to kick it off, but then it was just a couple of hours a day here and there, and a few evenings and weekends...
It probably took as much elapsed time as doing all the structural bits on the left conversion I did at the last place, but then I had help with some of that, not to mention being 14 years younger ;-)
Yeah, well I only pick the camera angles to show you the nice bits...
The original pictures of the old bathroom didn't look too bad but the new one is even better. It's a good result. Well done.
It must add another 5% to the total effort to document, photograph and write it up so clearly!
Yup I thought that when I looked at them - but keep in mind those were taken 10 years ago (they were the only "before" photos I had, since I forgot to take some before I started working). They were also taken with fairly sympathetic angles and lighting!
Most of the issues with the main bathroom were practical rather than aesthetic. The bath was not a good shape (too shallow, and short), there was no shower, the floor was actually quite dangerous when wet. The glaze on the loo knackered etc.
Then our en-suite was due to be done anyway since I wanted a shower in there. The bath seemed like a nice addition, and while the WC etc worked well enough, I was not a fan of the dark pink!
(there is a fair chance all the fittings were 15 years old when we moved in)
Thanks. Not going to be to everyone's taste I am sure, but it seems to fit the bill for us.
Alas I did not take many photo's of this, since I thought at the outset there would not be much "new" in the process to write up. Its only by the time the end of it approached I realised that there was an awful lot of "detail" stuff that potentially might have been interesting.
(there is also the point that having the page handy serves as a handy record of what I did and when - either for my own reference, or just to show off some pictures if people ask what I have been up to!)
I have just rewritten the text to make it a bit more consistent in style, and added a few diagrams.
Ta...
I have one bit of extra tarting I might yet do... ;-)
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