New bathroom

[Steve_M]

3 hours ago, Tiggie said:

Started taking tiles off in toilet today. Some of them look to of been put on with no more nails glue!! 

 

Good news is I've never had tiles come off so easy, I pulled whole sections off by hand.

 

For the rest I used my new toy, an 80mm cranked chisel bit for an SDS drill, I'd definitely recommend anyone taking tiles off to use one if possible, so easy to do.

 

 

My chisel fitted to the sds isn’t that big, but still wizzed the plaster off the walls in double quick time. I’m thinking I could do with one of those beasts for the rest of the house. After all, it seems that size does count.

[Bender]

9 minutes ago, Steve_M said:

My chisel fitted to the sds isn’t that big, but still wizzed the plaster off the walls in double quick time. I’m thinking I could do with one of those beasts for the rest of the house. After all, it seems that size does count.

I have a big sds that I use 5" core drills with, it is one of the few cheap tools I bought it's been amazing, its just b n q performance branded thing I've had it prob over 10yrs now

 

Just re read, I take it your referring to the size of tiggies tool not the drill,  

[Tiggie]

Ahem... Its not the length its the width that matters!....apparently .....

 

My tool is only a cheap bosch diy jobbie but gets the job done when it counts 

 

I lent it to my boss a few years ago when he was renovating a flat he had bought. When he gave it back to me he gave me a brand new one, same make & model, he said he had given mine so much abuse he would feel guilty giving it back 

[Steve_M]

25 minutes ago, Bender said:

I have a big sds that I use 5" core drills with, it is one of the few cheap tools I bought it's been amazing, its just b n q performance branded thing I've had it prob over 10yrs now

 

Just re read, I take it your referring to the size of tiggies tool not the drill,  

I was referring to his chisel tool bit. 
 

Should I just sit quietly in a corner having lowered the whole tone of this thread? 

[Bender]

5 minutes ago, Steve_M said:

I was referring to his chisel tool bit. 
 

Should I just sit quietly in a corner having lowered the whole tone of this thread? 

So you want to sit quietly in the corner looking at @Tiggie tool, that's pretty low, and somewhat worrying  

[skyrider]

4 hours ago, Tiggie said:

Started taking tiles off in toilet today. Some of them look to of been put on with no more nails glue!! 

 

Good news is I've never had tiles come off so easy, I pulled whole sections off by hand.

 

For the rest I used my new toy, an 80mm cranked chisel bit for an SDS drill, I'd definitely recommend anyone taking tiles off to use one if possible, so easy to do.

 

 

good to see that you are wearing your ppe safety footwear 

[Tiggie]

Got a big Screwfix delivery today with most of the bits I'll need

 

 

 

Also not shown was this box....

 

 

 

Which had inside it.......

 

 

A single radiator key!!! 

[Ian Frog]

Soon to be followed by the cat using it as a bed no doubt!

Cheers

Ian

[stedebs]

My bathroom is ready for a refit this year or next........... Strangely I don't mind doing kitchens ....... but hate bathrooms, that and I want a jacuzzi bath but haven't the foggiest on how to fit it 

[Tiggie]

Less plumbing mishaps in a kitchen!! 

[stedebs]

29 minutes ago, Tiggie said:

Less plumbing mishaps in a kitchen!! 

and no loo to take out 

[dynax]

12 minutes ago, stedebs said:

and no loo to take out 

 

That's one of the best jobs

 

I was working for a builder back in the early 2000's and he took on a young lad to do most of the labouring jobs, anyway we were doing an extension and the the old drains had to be re-routed.

The young lad turned a funny colour when he eventually dug down to expose the old sewer pipe,  I offered to help him out at that point

 

[stedebs]

2 minutes ago, dynax said:

 

That's one of the best jobs

 

I was working for a builder back in the early 2000's and he took on a young lad to do most of the labouring jobs, anyway we were doing an extension and the the old drains had to be re-routed.

The young lad turned a funny colour when he eventually dug down to expose the old sewer pipe,  I offered to help him out at that point

 

Then you can come do mine if you like  .

 

I can imagine the young lad lol. As a family we have a holiday house in France that has a tank under the garden, when we first got the house it stank and needed some work on the inlets???? and there was a blockage somewhere too ......... guess who ended up helping with that one?????? And because of that I was volunteered into helping my dad when the drains were backing up at the church he maintained ......  Not one of my favourite things.  

 

Fortunately I managed to be unavailable last time they needed some work on the tanks in france......... apparently it was verrrrrry fragrant work 

[Bender]

The proverbial happens, someone has to deal with it, it's usually the things that's not supposed to go down the toilet that causes the problems.

 

I went to a house with 3 toilets 2 up 1 down, they waited till both toilets up stairs no longer flushed properly and then decided to remove down stairs loo, confused as to why that was fine they somehow disconnected the internal stack and got the contents of  5m worth of pipe emptying into the house  

 

Toilets were on seperate drains, had they just tapped the pipe they would have known it was full, bet they don't touch soil pipes again.

[Steve_M]

Err, yes. We had a slight odour in our dining room not long after we bought the house. We employed someone to sort it out. It seems bodgit and scarper builders incorporated had done some dodgy plumbing to take the stack out of the house and it had broken as it passed through the wall underground. The guy doing the work, familiar as he was with this sort of situation, was working on it in five minute shifts pausing to get breath at regular intervals. I stayed out of the house other than to offer him cups of tea. 

[Tiggie]

Before........

 

 

 

After!!..........

 

 

 

Found a couple of very spongy floorboards that will need replacing as well 

[Bender]

Before and a bit later, if that's the finished job I can't see your lass being happy  

[Steve_M]

1 hour ago, Tiggie said:

Before........

 

 

 

After!!..........

 

 

 

Found a couple of very spongy floorboards that will need replacing as well 

You’re just not trying. There’s still plaster on the walls.

Edited February 21, 2021 by Steve_M
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[dynax]

Liking the minimalist look

[Tiggie]

Heres a helpful tip.

 

Saucepans make great valve/pipe protectors when tiles are raining down 

 

 

[Mickly]

I am also in the unfortunate position of refurbing a down stairs loo for the step daughter.

I’ve ripped the basin out and capped the pipes, I can find no sign of a leak but there’s a small puddle every morning.

The top pipe ( cold ) seems to have water along the underside of its length, could this be condensation rather than a leak?

She wouldn’t have noticed before as it was behind a built in unit.

[Bender]

2 minutes ago, Mickly said:

I am also in the unfortunate position of refurbing a down stairs loo for the step daughter.

I’ve ripped the basin out and capped the pipes, I can find no sign of a leak but there’s a small puddle every morning.

The top pipe ( cold ) seems to have water along the underside of its length, could this be condensation rather than a leak?

She wouldn’t have noticed before as it was behind a built in unit.

Condensation, it's the main feed to the house, lag it.

[husoi]

If not condensation wrap some toilet paper around it and you will find out where the leak is  

[Mickly]

Let’s see if this does the trick 

[husoi]

This would be a more efficient solution.

https://www.diy.com/departments/polyethylene-foam-pipe-lagging-l-1m-dia-28mm/1906886_BQ.prd