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Mitchell Gas Services, 58 Carleton Avenue, Glenrothes (2026)

09/07/2024

Just a small bathroom refresh completed this week in Leven, after years and years of issues with dodgy taps and leaking showers.

Not going to lie, this was physically challenging; two flights of stairs up to the top floor of the house, with all the vast amounts of tools and material you need for a job like this, plus all the waste to go downstairs.

Then five hard days tiling it all left my knees screaming in agony.

The icing on the cake was having to single-handedly put together the skirted bath, which basically involves holding the bath up with one hand, doing up the waste pipework with the other, then dropping it in to place and hoping nothing comes apart; and manoeuvring two heavy bits of glass into a space where there’s little room to handle them; but it all came together in the end.

My thanks as always to SCL Joinery and Ben Moreham Plastering for their efforts.

08/10/2023

A recent bathroom completed in Buckhaven.

Full credit goes to my customer for taking this excellent set of progress photos, covering pretty much every day and every stage of the job.

I knew there were a couple of problem spots in the original bathroom in terms of the straightness of the walls, but it wasn't until I pulled everything apart that I realised just how bad it actually was.

I had to spend two days straightening out the main shower wall and the window wall. The window wall was so squint, that if I'd followed the existing timbers in a straight line, by the time I got to the next corner of the room, I would have had to build the wall out by about 4 inches / 100mm, and the toilet would have been sitting at an angle toward the shower tray, which would have looked ridiculous.

The whole wall ended up getting built out just outside the shower tray to take this twist out of the wall, hence the new corner. An added bonus of this is that the window itself is now equally sized on all sides, where it had previously had two very clearly uneven sides and a squint cill.

My thanks goes again to Stuart's Tiling for his usual high quality finish with such a quick turnaround; Ben Moreham Plastering for the ceiling and walls; and Scott SCL Joinery for helping rip everything out, boarding, transporting materials, and helping set that enormous and unbelievably heavy shower tray.

I often don't get to see jobs that are 100% complete, as I generally don't get involved with painting, decorating, accessorising, and so on, so I'm very grateful to my customer for sharing all of her photos once the finishing touches had been done. It's a very unique finish, but I think it creates an amazing final product.

16/07/2023

Hello everyone. It’s been a while. Six months or more maybe. I haven’t been keeping track, but it’s easy done when there’s a million and one other things to do, and social media ends up way down my list of priorities.

Anyway, it’s about time I rectified that, so here’s a job from November 2022, that I’ve actually just been back to today (boiler service and adjusting the shower temperature) hence the inspiration to post about it.

This customer was in need of an accessible wet room, and this was a really interesting project.

It involved taking an existing WC and bedroom cupboard, knocking out walls, sealing up doors, and creating new door frames, to turn the tiny WC into a full sized wet room.

It’s another one of those “forgot to take pictures before I started” jobs, because I’m *always* too keen at the ripping out stage, but I have included my original drawings and 3D modelling which goes into the design process to make sure things will work.

And it did all work, thankfully, much to the delight of the customer.

It was a couple of weeks of hard work, but along with the regular team of Scott SCL Joinery, Ben Moreham Plastering, and Stuart’s Tiling, it all came together for a fantastic finish that will stand the test of time, because the effort has been put in at every stage to get it right, rather than just getting it done.

24/12/2022

Well, another year is done, and what a year it has been.

There’s been a new baby, loads of bathrooms, some disastrous deliveries, a first family holiday, a handful of wet rooms and more boiler installs than I’m used to getting.

I’m so incredibly grateful for the customers who continue to trust me, and contribute to the success of the business, but success comes at a price.

I have found that the combination of our growing family and the demands of the business have led to every evening being a struggle to balance being a husband, a father, and a tradesman, so, messages or calls haven’t always been answered right away, the odd few have slipped by me completely, and quotes, designs and invoices have often been later than I’d hope to have them out.

More relevant to this time of year, is that my wife and I would normally have sent out dozens of Christmas cards, and this year we just literally have not had the time; so, I want to apologise to all my family, friends and customers who would normally have had one by now, and hope you’ll believe that it’s not out of laziness or badness.

From all of the Mitchell family, thank you for supporting us, and we wish you all the very best for Christmas 2022, as well as peace, health and happiness in 2023.

Merry Christmas. X

03/08/2022

A big bathroom project completed last Sunday after two weeks of hard work and lots of running up and down stairs between the tile saw and the room.

This wasn’t just a case of refreshing the look of the room; the shower cubicle was unusable as the original grout lines had all split, allowing water pe*******on and damage to other parts of the property. This is something I see all too frequently in relatively new properties, but that’s a contentious subject I won’t get in to right now.

The whole room was stripped out back to the studs where necessary, and rebuilt with the help of Scott from SCL Joinery. The shower cubicle and bath area were tanked with Mapei AquaDefense to comply with updated British Standards, then the long, long process of tiling was started.

I make no secret of the fact that I find tiling to be difficult, stressful, exhausting and sometimes frustrating, and I am amazed anyone could do it day in day out, but I was mostly happy with how this one came together, barring the time it took, but I feel like I’ve plateaued in terms of my speed; I pre-cut as much as I could when I could, but still found myself doing hundreds of trips from saw to room.

I’ve also found a new preferred grout brand, Ultra TileFix, which I feel gave a better finish than the BAL products I’ve previously used; it mixes up much more smoothly, and polishes to a much smoother texture, whereas I’ve always found BAL to be very granular.

Despite the time it all took, and the fact that I missed a couple of grout spots I had to return to fill in, the customer is delighted with everything, and most importantly, the shower is once again usable and should remain so for the long term future.

26/06/2022

A functional but tired and outdated shower room turned back into a bathroom this week in Glenrothes.

There’s a bit of sadness in this one for me, as I’d actually worked for the very lovely lady who previously owned the property, now sadly passed away, and from her I knew most of the fixtures, barring the shower cubicle, were decades old, and showing it.

The toilet and soil pipe connections had been patched and bodged and patched and bodged over the years with various leaks; the cast iron soil socket would not have fit any modern toilet setup, and every bit of pipework was imperial copper with flared joints. Put all of that on top of a seized mains stopcock, and a seized cover plate for the main valve in the street, and it wasn’t off to a good start, as there was no way to shut the water off, no way to get a fitting on anything without soldering, and no way to do anything live due to the phenomenal pressure and flow rates.

Thanks to a very quick response from Scottish Water, and a big lump hammer, we got the water shut off and everything upgraded to modern metric copper, with sensibly placed good quality isolation valves to make everyone’s lives easier.

The cost soil was cut right back with a modern soil adaptor fitted; the shower converted from electric to thermostatic mixer for a much, much better quality shower; and a steel bath installed.

Scott from Scl joinery installed Perform Panel plywood wetwall all round, which I think is going to be our new go-to brand, as the tongue and groove joints were excellent; Malmo click vinyl flooring; and Neptune ceiling panels; while a Halite bath panel (about the only bath panel worth fitting) finished the bath off.

The dark colour scheme might not be to all tastes, but it has to be an upgrade on the eclectic mix of finishes of varying ages around the room as it was.

19/04/2022

A shower room refresh completed today in Kirkcaldy, and my first tiling job of 2022 completed.

The customer was happy enough with their shower cubicle, but wanted the rest of the room given a makeover.

Pulling the old tiles off the main wall with the basin pulled the old plaster to pieces, so to save any delays and additional cost associated with bonding and skimming, the wall was battened and boarded to provide a perfect tiling surface.

The ceiling, which had been some old tongue and groove cladding, was torn down, boarded, and skimmed by Ben Moreham.

The old pull cord light switch and spotlights were scrapped; a new wall switch fitted outside the bathroom door; and a simple LED bathroom dome light fitted.

Although it was a simple pattern and not that large an area the tiling itself did drag on for a couple of days, but, I’m not a fast tiler and think it looked good in the end, so that’s all that matters.

Being porcelain, fitting up all the finishing touches was a bit of a nightmare, as every single hole to drill was an effort - and there was about 20 of them - but I made it through with only one broken tile and five blunted or broken drill bits 😓

04/04/2022

After a horrendous two weeks in mid March, it was a refreshing change to do a bathroom at the end of the month where everything went according to plan, and the job was completed ahead of schedule.

This well kept but dated bathroom was converted to a walk in shower room for an elderly customer.

Walls were ripped open to pipe in an electric shower, which I’d generally steer away from, but the central heating and hot water system is an old tank fed system, so a thermostatic mixer would have required a pump to provide any sort of decent flow, plus, the hot water cylinder was so small it would deplete in minutes with a pump running, so electric was the only sensible solution.

My thanks to Dave of Appleby Electrics for specifying, running and certifying the new circuit.

The shower area was rebuilt using cement board all round to comply with British Standards for wet areas, and a 1700mm by 800mm Kudox anti slip tray (which weighed an absolute tonne) set into a plasticised mortar bed. Aquadart glass with a flipper panel, with Croydex grab rails and seat, finished off a nice spacious showering area.

The walls were finished in light stone plywood laminate wetwall all round, with satin trims, and medium oak KlicKer flooring provides a quick, easy and cost effective solution for a comfortable, grippy and waterproof flooring.

As always, thanks to Scott at Scl joinery for his hard work and quick turnaround on a fairly big (ten sheet) room.

The existing radiator was an Imperial panel radiator, and there was no way I was putting that back on once it had been removed, so a modern double panel double convector was chosen to prioritise heating the room over the lower performance of a heated towel rail.

Finally, a fancy Infinity mirror was put in as a bit of an afterthought to replace the ancient flat mirror and shaver socket / light combo, which fell to bits as it was being removed.

All in all, a nice, straightforward conversion, and just what I needed after an incredibly stressful few weeks.

22/12/2021

2021 is nearly over, and I’m not going to lie, it nearly broke me.

I could never have expected to be as busy as I have been; I’m incredibly grateful to have the business I have, so many loyal customers who keep coming back, putting their trust in me, offering more and more opportunity to work in their homes, and ultimately allowing me to provide for my family. But, it’s been hard keeping up with everything.

So, I want to thank all of my loyal customers and friends - because so many of you seem to care about me, and my family, and you make me feel like more than just the guy that fixes your plumbing - for making 2021 such a great success.

Equally, I want to apologise to everyone who has had to wait on a reply to a message, or an appointment. It genuinely bothers me to know I’m not getting back to people as quickly as I would like to, especially if the roles were reversed, but it’s hard to strike a balance between what needs to be done minute to minute, hour to hour, and there has to come a time each day when the phone has to come out of the hand.

I appreciate the patience and understanding you all demonstrate so much, and if I’ve kept you waiting or made you feel forgotten, I am truly sorry.

Anyway, it’s been months since I last posted (I think, I’ve never got time to check), so it was about time to do something about that.

This is only a small en-suite WC but it’s part one of a much larger job to end the year, with an en-suite shower room through the wall being done at the same time due to them sharing a lot of water supply and drainage work.

There’s still a couple of finishing touches needed through there, chiefly a door facing, window facing, and a lick of paint, so I don’t want to share that yet, but it wasn’t until I took the after pictures here that I realised just how much you can improve such a tiny space with a bit of hard work.

It might not seem much, but this was a complete rip out and rebuild in order to get all the ugly exposed pipework below the floor, and, while it’s the first tiling job I’ve done personally in a long time, I was pretty chuffed with it, when normally I’m very, very critical of my tiling.

Hopefully I can bring part two of this to the page in the New Year, but for now, I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, happy New Year, make the most of your time with the people who matter most to you, be well and be happy.

21/11/2021

A sorry ending for a boiler that was barely four years old, main heat exchanger split, and oozing brown filth into the air box.

This is the unfortunate result of cheap boilers attracting cheap installers, and cheap installers looking to maximise profit margins by doing as little as possible on the job.

The central heating system was filthy; it had clearly never been cleaned and flushed on this install. No magnetic system filter, and undoubtedly no chemical protection in the system either.

Combine that with non existent / poor servicing, and you’ve got a heat exchanger where the waterways are quickly getting clogged with muck; the airways are getting choked with aluminium oxide and combustion byproducts; and the whole thing cooks itself to death about ten years before it should have.

There’s a nice new Baxi 800 in its place now, just a shame I forgot the after picture; it’s usually the other way round.

05/08/2021

I spent a phenomenal amount of time here during the first half of 2021; the plumbing work in the bar, ladies and gent's toilets, and the kitchen are all my handiwork, as well as some heating system alterations and upgrades; so I can say without exagerration that David and Justina have put an incredible amount of hard work, energy and heart into turning this place into something that's worth a visit.

I personally can't wait to get by for my first meal and a drink, although I unfortunately couldn't make the opening day, but I'd urge anyone who follows the page to give The Boar's Head a try when you get the opportunity.

06/07/2021

It’s a biggie… the most complex project I’ve ever been involved in to date.

This is a listed property that is used as very large guest house. It’s full of character, and space, and bedrooms, but the bathroom facilities weren’t quite in balance with the occupancy, so a solution was needed.

The customer had consultations with architects and Building Control, and gained authorisation for a new bathroom in what was currently a bedroom.

It was then up to me to create a new grand bathroom with elegant traditional styling in keeping with the character of the property and the customers tastes.

Being a bedroom, there were no water or waste supplies anywhere near, so everything had to be piped in from elsewhere in the property, and the waste pumped out, and with a basin, bath, shower and toilet, two waste lifting stations were required to deal with it all.

The walls were a combination of lath and plaster and plasterboard patches, covered in woodchip wallpaper, so the only real option for nicely finished walls was to start again, by strapping, boarding and skimming the whole room.

At the same time, the limited choice of positions for the lifting stations and their pipework meant a false wall and floor had to be constructed to contain everything.

It was a hard two weeks, but everything that had been envisioned at the planning stage came together perfectly, and the finished result is, even if I say so myself, stunning.

It wasn’t all down to me though:

SCL Joinery for all the strapping, boarding, the floor and wall, wet wall, and pine cladding, who also worked through a horrendous injury to make sure the project stayed on track;

Appleby Electrics for the beautiful lighting accessories which really add that little bit of something special, as well as the extract fan;

Ben Moreham for the plastering, and Peter Smith for the roof vent.

There’s too many pictures to try and create any kind of order or story to them, so just have a browse and see the process if you’re interested. There’s little bits for the painter / decorator to tidy up, around the door frame and so on, but I hope the overall effect isn’t diminished.

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