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This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.
This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.
The brief for the design was to open up the spaces to give a larger, brighter feel to the room. It is a good size for a family house but was under utilised and had intrusive storage areas.
Mixing contemporary with family practicality was essential, as was the use of natural materials to give a dominant 'renovated' ambience. The use of cutting edge fitments and electronics adds to the enjoyment of the room and the infinitely variable lighting effects allows for a very relaxing showering/bathing experience.
Natural slate tiles in random pattern for the floor and square on the walls.
Plantation shutters over the window are visually very effective in a south facing aspect, from inside and out.
The cupboard in the far left corner hides one of the house's central heating boilers with a 'false' set of opening doors for access and maintenance.
Set in beneath the boiler is a recess that is tiled level with the plinth edges and has smoked mirrors on all three sides. This is lit by the LED rope and provides a display area and an illusion of infiniti.
The cupboard over the WC (WC out of view at end of bath) is used for safe storage of cleaning products and the vast amount of toilet paper required to keep the bathrooms stocked to cope with two teenaged sons.
This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.
The bespoke linen cupboard was made to fit available space using standard cabinet doors on a wood frame, all painted with soft roller in Farrow & Ball.
The accent lighting is angled to illuminate the interior.
The whole sits on a plinth which is used to house a low-voltage kickspace heater which is connected to the central heating circuit. The underfloor heating and kickspace heater provide a very warm and pleasant feel for a bathroom at any time.
View of heater www.flickr.com/photos/kendoerr/4644282996/in/set-1547217/
This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.
This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.
Bathroom as was. Central heating boiler moved from within 2nd cupboard over to the outside wall to accommodate new layout. Job delayed one year by this because it was discovered the gas supply was inadequate for the two heating systems, fire and range. Had to pay for larger meter and 22mm pipe runs to main users. Only then would Corgi guys move boiler and recertify system. Getting the gas company to actually work in a logical fashion was like something from a 50's movie about British officiousness and beaurocracy.
But I beat them at their game and they delivered extra components and failed to bill me. Twats.
Looking back to entrance door the shower wall and linen cupboard gives a corridor effect.
The use of vertical breaks to the slate tiling by using floor to ceiling material changes in soft, natural tones breaks up the dominance of the dark slate and removes the chance of the bathroom looking like a design for a public space.
The walk-in shower is sufficiently large enough to not require a door. Any small splashes are captured by the mat outside.
The shower is digital, wirelessly controlled from a remote outside the shower to start up at a preset option, then once at temp (at the beep) can be further controlled from inside from a main panel.
As a result, no piping or valves are in the walls and the head comes in from the ceiling with the control unit in the loft space.
Also in the loft space is a 'multi-vent' unit that extracts from all bathroom/en-suites. The extract cowl is hidden behind the tiled over brick return in the shower, which results in all the items normally seen littering a shower area kept out of sight yet right where they're needed.
The cupboard housing the boiler for the bedrooms also serves as storage for toiletries on shelves and two pull-out baskets.
LV power is available for rechargeable items like shavers and toothbrushes. These items are secured on the shelves ready for use.
Interior of linen cupboard fitted out with shelving made from tannelised battens, commonly used for outdoor furniture/decking .
Exposed ceiling joists were being plastered over so insulation materials went in first, held in place by bamboo canes.
Under the plinth is the PIR and a section of LED's. This also provides light for the towel shelf, under which is the waste bin.
The recess to the right of the basin is lit sufficiently for handwashing at night.
This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.
4 sets of lights on dimmers cover the different areas. Accent lighting shown here enhances the brickwork.
An IP rated PIR switches on a series of LED rope light strands for accent and night time WC visits. The PIR also switches on the mirror heater.
The switchplate is outside the room.
To guarantee no moisture would ever get under the tiles, the floor, walls and shower were completely tanked to the height of the tiles.
The insulation boards, tanking, underfloor electric heating, levelling compound and natural slate tiles added a total of 32mm to the concrete floor. A factor that needs to be appreciated in the build.
The exposed brick above the plinth was covered with slate to give a more uniform feel to the top surfaces.
The bespoke shower glass is 10mm toughened and Ritec coated for self-cleaning.
This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.
Basin fitted using silicone adhesive dabs. Channel cut in to wall to accept cable for mirror heater.
Wet deck base raised up to get the required drain fall without too much floor excavation. Reclaimed bricks to suit the interior signature. I managed to reuse all of the woodwork that was removed from the old storage cupboards and ceiling joists.
As the ceiling joists were 160mm deep, rather than just plaster over them, the ceiling was given a 'sculptured' finish in the shower area and the centre of the room by reducing the thickness or total removal (In shower). This then required additional bracing joists to be fitted to maintain support. All the wood removed was reused in the support or the shower deck base.
This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.
Reclaimed brick was used for the initial section of the shower. This provided for privacy and, internally, provided a 'hidden' area for the shelving and electronic shower control keypad.
John Reynold's handiwork once again.
This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.
This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.
New WC was hung in a bespoke cabinet with a 'Sanislim' macerator. The bath drain was able to pick up on the existing wall penetration.
The toilet was moved to the opposite wall from the existing drain. A macerator was used to get the pipe size down to 20mm (Not shown) and then 'T'ee'd' in to a bespoke fitting that handled the shower and basin drains. A series of internal elbows ensured that pressure and flow was not communicated between the pipes.
This is how the 'finished' bathroom looks, after Alan and Rob's hard work… if you need help yourself, then I'd recommend Alan's quality of work and his endeavours to you. Just drop me a line and I will send you his 'phone number.