Woman planning bathroom!

[emmathe37th]

God help me - I'm planning a bathroom. Thank God I'm not installing it. Be prepared for lots of posts asking stupid questions!

 

[lame plumber]

bath,basin n bog whats to worry about

 

[Riley]

I'm sure we'll be happy to help. Welcome along

 

[rpm]

Welcome along Emma, is this your 37th bathroom?

Me thinks this could become interesting. New build en-suite? Wet room rather than bathroom? Small bedroom into bathroom? Pray its not Victoria Plumb based on other threads.
Awaiting post #2

 

[snoopy8888]

be sensible, choose bath with taps on end not side of bath.

 

[GasmanxxxR1]

The only stupid question is the one you dont ask

 

[Rickster123]

Make sure the toilet roll holder is in reaching distance from the pan. Nothing worse than waddling across the bathroom with your pants around your ankles.

oh, welcome to the forum.

 

[emmathe37th]

Haha cheers guys! Bought a suite from Bathstore (almost went with Victoria Plumb but avoided it last minute!)

 

[emmathe37th]

I've been good and not got a freestanding bath or anything impractical like that.

I should probably post this in a specific forum, but the only thing at the moment that is a pain in the backside is our bath/shower situation.


I'm trying to get a traditional victorian style bath/shower mixer tap with a rigid riser for a rigid showerhead, but also with a flexible hose. I'd put a link up of the one I've found for £600 but I'm a newbie so it won't let me post URLs! £600 seems excessively expensive! I don't want a separate shower as we already have a bath shower mixer and it works fine - don't want to have to deal with plumbing for a separate shower!


Does anyone know if it's possible to buy a bath/shower mixer with a rigid riser, and then add on the hose with a diverter? Or buy a bath/shower mixer with hose, and adapt this to fit a rigid riser? I don't know which would be easiest but surely it's do-able!?

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Remember if your on a budget cheap china looks a million dollars with good brass...

 

[townfanjon]

Please don't tile the bath panel and seal in any potential leaks you may have to find a few years down the line

 

[kris]

Hi there emmathe37th welcome along , bathrooms can be stressful for you folks , some of my customers get terrified as theyre not great with computers and not sure what to order so i sometimes spend countless evenings sitting with them helping them buy online, and some just dont know what they want but we always get there in the end,

 

[SimonG]

As ch4 plumbing said. You can get decent quality sanitaryware at a really good price. Then spruce it up with better taps. I would also go for a steel bath rather than acrylic.

 

[chris watkins]

These people will do anything your hart desire's but it may bit a bit more than £600 however it will outlast the sanitary ware. Page 8 onwards. http://www.barwil.co.uk/files/Barwil Mono Catalogue 2013 Rev1.pdf

You do realise that if your shower comes off of only a bath mixer tap it will not be thermostatically controlled & subject to fluctuations if others use water else where.

 

[Anton]

Are you going for the heavy duty chains to hold the toilet seat down or just the bog standard ones ?

 

[brum]

Dont let a woman design a bathroom a womans place is in the kitchen tied to the cooker.
Ima brave man the wifes away heehee

 

[brum]

These people will do anything your hart desire's but it may bit a bit more than £600 however it will outlast the sanitary ware. Page 8 onwards. http://www.barwil.co.uk/files/Barwil Mono Catalogue 2013 Rev1.pdf

You do realise that if your shower comes off of only a bath mixer tap it will not be thermostatically controlled & subject to fluctuations if others use water else where.

unless an under bath TMV is fitted which is now law on new installations on new builds or on walk in bath situations we fit them on new bathroom installations where old folk about safety issue