09/06/2026
Not every day we do 3 bathrooms in 1 property at the same time (technically 1 after each other) so here we are. We started these bathrooms in march by ripping out the 1st bathroom with the bath which is staying, and removing the tiles took all the plasterboard off with it to expose the lack of wooden braces and structure, so had to support the walls better with wooden noggins and then ripped out the Ensuite bathroom too to expose same issues but left the smaller bathroom intact so the customers could still wash. Plasterer came in and skimmed the awful tape and joint plasterboarding you find in new builds as the cracks and pealing tape just looks awful. I never knew new builds were this poor. Thin walls no insulation or sound proofing, floor joists the maximum allowed gaps, the movement in the floors was just incredible. I personally will never buy one. The electrical cable runs with no trucking or protection, disgusting but we fixed and changed the parts we exposed and move on.
The 1st bathroom was keeping the vanity unit and bath but shower area needed new tray. As there is a dividing wall that moved, that was screwed tighter with extra noggins and braces and reboarded too. Then painted the ceiling with white wash before a full covering of brilliant white bathroom paint. As we’ve added 2 recess areas, 1 over bath and 1 in shower area, we ran new cabling and led strip lighting to both and ran to 2 light switches, 1 in hallway and 1 from the bedroom as the bathroom has 2 entrance points. Then modded the toothbrush charger point to a lower spot and ran a cable in wall for the mirror. Changed the basin waste and bath wastes and double boarded the bath wall to make recess slightly deeper as wall is only 60mm thick. Moved bath out and build a support and cradle for the bath, changing bath tap too as old was faulty and fitted bath. Began tiling now and 225 tiles to walls later (mostly cuts) it was ready to grout. Them laid ply to the floor and fit click vinyl on top, sealing around the edges. New concealed cistern fitted to toilet as old one was faulty, New anthracite rad to finish it all off and onto the Ensuite.
Ensuite had a bath and small shower and they never used the bath so the bath area became a shower area with valve in the wall, recess too, and handheld and overhead pipework run to locations via pipework in the walls. New electrics run for his and her tooth brush chargers either side of new vanity unit going where shower was before, and a huge mirror with light to wall above the vanity. Ceiling skimmed and white washed and painted same as other bathroom with both bathrooms having new spotlights and extractor fans fitted. Same tiles to wall as other bathroom and same ply and click vinyl flooring to bathroom floor. LED strip run in recess same as other bathroom too. Then came the box for the back to wall toilet and fitting the vanity unit and basin. We fitted towel rails to both sides of vanity unit in the gaps for his and hers hand towels as the gaps was a waste of space, and new anthracite radiator to wall slightly smaller then other bathroom and then… the rip out of the last bathroom began.
The last bathroom is the smallest of the 3 and is another Ensuite. Recess in the shower area same as the others with led lighting on separate switch same as the others. Tray build in a platform as with new builds it’s hard to modify floor joists to allow new items to work. Then same tiles as other 2 bathrooms to walls and new basin and pedestal and toilet to locations. The shower door is a minimal framework door which looks stunning, but can be hard to fit is measurements are not exact. Toothbrush charger was already in this room and kept in same location, just adding a mirror to the wall above the basin. New spotlights to this ceiling too and ceiling repaired and painted.
All in all, With other projects on set dates and having to leave and come back with a week here and week there breaks, yes it took time but the finish is lovely and I personally am very happy with the outcome. I was also poorly during the end period of the 2nd bathroom and needed time off to get over it.
Having a small break for a few days and next project begins Monday.
Hope you like the process of these photos. This one took a lot out of me!
This is the property that I moaned about in the video that went mad with over 400,000 views. New builds are not for me 😂😂
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