Things you don't want to hear guests say #1
‘Gosh, your toilet really is sinking into the floor, isn’t it?’
And do you know, it is. I decided this week to use my flurry of go-getty new year-ness to finally do something about our hideous bathroom. After all, it’s been three years since we moved in and we’ve hated the room for all of that time.
Perhaps the room has felt that hate and decided to get its own back, because it’s leaking. The bathscreen, which periodically falls off into the bath, sometimes onto bathing occupants (ie me) has decided that it no longer wants to keep the water inside the bath when we shower, so the floor is littered with old towels.
But we suspect worse. The floor moves. The floor tiles are all cracked and no longer level. But the previous muppet encased so much of the pipework and cistern in botched up wooden contraptions covered in tiles, that we can’t actually see what else might be leaking.
So I got a man in to quote for it. I’ve also been to the bathroom shop down the road and I’ve chosen a bath, tiles and fancy pants taps. We know what kind of light fitting we want and that we want a slate floor. We need to find a basin, and a towel heater, and a door, and a cupboard, and a toilet roll holder. There are probably other things too.
On the plus side this flurry of activity leaves me with nothing pressing to do this weekend except whatever I feel like doing although so far that’s been ‘sleeping late’. I’m sure I’ll think of something else.
Oh Jo, lucky, lucky you. We too chose a bath made by Kaw…whatever, and it is lovely and feels very luxurious. I like your fancypants taps. Hopefully whatever is beneath the ‘boxing in’ is simpler than you think…maybe he (the muppet) was just keeping the pipework warm & cosy?
Anyway, our bath is wonderful…but we made the fatal error of not replacing the tiles around it…so we still can’t use the shower….also we paid someone who was ‘lovely’ (the main thing I look for in a handyman…will I ever learn?), but who had never installed a bath before, to do the work. I don’t think he’d taken in the importance of the need for a bath to be very snugly pressed up against a wall…so our silicone forms a little bridge between the wall and the bath that water collects in….grrrr.
Hope you are having a lovely weekend. x
From: Florence on 5 January 2008, 19:52 #A fabulous new bathroom for the new year, perfect. We have a similar problem all our plumbing is encased behind tiles too, although the only flood was when I forgot to turn the taps off! Then we discovered that there was no overflow!
From: two hippos on 5 January 2008, 21:19 #I hope you’ll be posting before and after shots? I’m so nosey, and I’d just love to see the botched up wooden contraptions covered in tiles! …. sounds just like our bathroom ….
Good luck with it all
:)
From: Monkee Maker on 6 January 2008, 07:23 #
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You’ll have to share pics of the makeover. We’re just in the process of trying to sort our bathroom. Sounds like it was fitted by the same person who did yours! Happy shoppping :)
From: Helen on 5 January 2008, 17:45 #