Looks good now that the sink is attached ๐
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Customer prefered it that way as well
NGL, the ceiling looked way better before. Not knocking your work--it was just a nice-looking ceiling and now it's more of a plain-looking one.
Nah, it was a nice ceiling for sure, but it was adding too much of a warm tone to the bathroom. The cooler tone overall is a lot nicer to look at.
Yeah and why is it so dirty looking
Nice work. Redoing all the above wall piping must have been a pain.
Not too bad actually. I'm a plumber by training and it's all done in PEX which is quite easy to work with.
Here it's still mostly visible
God I love European style bathrooms. Why can't we have floor drains in our bathrooms here in the US?
Agreed about the drain. We have the same problem in Canada and I think it's because the insurance companies, restoration companies, and builders are conspiring here to keep it that way.
But I would prefer that the shower was self contained and had its own drain. The wet baths I constantly deal with when I travel are one of my pet peaves.
I just asked someone here about this a while back. Didn't get a good answer to explain the difference.
Our showers are seperated from the bathroom floor by at least a few inches of lip (for lack of a better word) so that water never flows into the rest of the bathroom floor. The drain is only in the shower section, so you can't spray down the rest of the bathroom with water and have it just drain out.
A drain in the bathroom floor (rather than just the shower floor) allows you to spray water on any of your bathroom walls, appliances, and fixtures for cleaning and it will just drain away as if you were running the shower. We generally can't do that here in the states.
Is that common In Europe?
Bathrooms where there's no division between the shower and your toilet and sink suck ass. Why would you want to hose your entire bathroom down every time you take a shower? What do people have against shower curtains or doors?
Ideally the toilet would be in a completely different room from the shower, but a shower stall is the bare minimum.
The thought of stepping barefoot on a surface where a toilet may have overflowed is too much for me. More power to you of that's your preference though.
? But toilets can overflow even if you don't have a drain in your floor.
You wouldn't shower wearing sandals in your own bathroom would you?
The good thing about having a drain in the floor is that in the extremely rare event that your toilet overflows you can just hose down the entire room.
What materials did you use for the wall work?
Tile - mortar - water proofing - primer - plaster board (wet space rated) - plywood.
Normally I wouldn't use plywood there but it was under the old tiles and plasterboard so I just left it in place.
Wow neatly done dude, kudos!
i really like it! i love how functional it all is
I wouldn't actually want to live there but come on, the civil defense vibe of that old bathroom is fire. That said, great job, I second not quite being in love with the ceiling but still great.
That's how plumbing is done in most places...behind the wall. If there's a leak you can never get to it. If I ever get a chance to design my own bathroom, I will try to add access panels to get to the plumbing. Access panels don't have to look ugly.
The pipe carrying water sits inside a larger protective sleeve. If it ever leaks, the water runs into that sleeve and drips out the ends onto the floor instead of soaking into the walls or structures.
You can then disconnect both ends, pull the damaged pipe out, and slide a new one in. No joints hidden behind the walls, and leaks in the middle of the pipe are super rare - you'd basically have to drill into it. The manifold above ceiling has a an access panel.
Oh that's neato bonito! Local laws here require fasteners every few inches/feet for electrical and plumbing. They take the pex and clamp it to the inner wall studs. Any leaks then mean that you have to re-do the wall.
The protective outer sleeve is clamped down here as well but you can still pull out the inner pipe. It's not alway the easiest job but it can be done.
Very cool!
I liked it better before it looks more lived in.
So did the mold
Feels like home.
complete remodel sink and toilet still at the same place
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