well done mate great job I also did my own bathroom after watching your videos Roger its been two years and everything is still like new and solid , the only thing i didnt do was the tiling, when the tiler arrived he said it was the best preped job hes ever seen so says it all really
That is one hell of an accolade from the tiler. Well done on taking the job on I am almost at the stage where I won't do tiling but every so often I can't wait for the tiler to find a slot.
I never comment on videos but your videos have helped me do a family bathroom and 1 ensuite with the last ensuite currently in progress. Using your videos I've done everything from stud work, pipework, radiators, wastes, wet room prep, floorboards, screeds, underfloor heating, tiling, hanging doors, shower trays, bath, etc. The only two trades I've got in are plastering and electrics both of who commented on the quality of the work. Sometimes things have gone wrong but you do them again and sort the problem. I feel I've ended up with something I'd have had to pay 2-3 times the amount to get someone else to do. "Belts and braces" has been said a lot over the last year....Big thanks!
I was able to fit our bathrooms thanks to Roger's elements videos. I wish you'd do some more full bathroom transformation vids, they were my favourites 😊
Love this video. Brought back my PTSD from an almost identical renovation of our ensuite as a covid lock down project after similarly being inspired by Roger's bathroom videos 4 years ago. And complete with LED illuminated niches of course. Wasn't the plan, but couldn't find a tiler willing to handle the 80x80cm floor tiles, nor cut them to the tray, so similarly took that on. So pleased with the result. Reading the comments here, there must be hundreds of scarred DIYers out there thanks to Roger! Cost us £10k also, but also saved thousands. Many thanks.
I'm finally in the last leg of my bathroom renovation, having started with the rip out 2 years back. This channel has been my inspiration for everything!! I've done all the plumbing into an accessible manifold, with pipes running to each fixture with no joins. I installed a pre-wall for the wall hung Roca toilet and sinks, plus an Impey in floor shower system so the tiling is seamless - this included an envelope cut. I've used Elements boards all round and taken inspiration from many of your videos. I waterproofed the entire room to fit with new building regs, and I also included the ProWarm underfloor heating kit along with good lighting, including ambient LED under the pre-wall shelf and in the niche. It's been a heck of a job as I've only had 1-2 days a week max to do it all but I've just finished the main tiling off and I'm about to start the final feature tile shower wall. I've done mitre cuts into the windows rather than using a profile. The tiling I am very happy with so far, and as a perfectionist that's difficult to achieve!! After that it's all done, and even with £1k of tools (which I can use again) it's cost me less than £8k so far for everything. I was quoted £20-25k to have it done. :O
Just watched more of this - very nice job, and almost identical in many places to my own. Even the layout is similar with no bath, and a walk in shower.
Someone who’s shown care and wanted to ensure that nothing went wrong after it was completed! Great showing this for those who plan or intend to have a bathroom reno.
Roger, your videos helped me fit out 2 bathrooms and your advice has helped and inspired me with DIY since being a precocious teenager in the 80s when you did your LBC Fix it Phone-Ins! Thank you.
He is rightfully proud of a very impressive piece of hard work. It just goes to show that with patience and care, and with a bit of experience, it is possible to tackle many things around the house that seemed impossible at first. Even though I do not think I would ever feel confident enough to do something like this myself, watching Skillbuilder videos has made me more confident and capable.
A good DIY is better than a professional every time ! No time restrictions, so everything can be perfect ! As a professional knows perfect takes time but most customers just want it done good enough at a reasonable price, but if you do it yourself, with a good eye for detail it can be so much better than good ! I started at 15 (I’m 53 Now) when my sister had her kitchen wallpapered by a friend who was a professional decorator. It was awful and said I could have done it better, before I knew it I was wallpapering her hall and stairs. Just read the instructions and used my common sense and it was a much better job, they said it was perfect ! I will tackle everything from bathrooms kitchens plastering bricklaying electrics(HND in electrical engineering) carpentry garage conversions roofing ect. ect. For myself and professionally. I am a perfectionist it has to be perfect everything I do, if I’m not happy it gets done again lol ! But as he shows in this video, if you’re going to do a job buy the right quality tools for the job it makes it so much easier ! I’ve done job for people where I have made no money because the tools I’ve brought are more expensive than the price of the job, but I’ve got the tools for the rest of my life, even if I don’t use them for the next five years I’ve still got them for the next time !
Absolutely love this channel, as primarily a kitchen fitter, (bathrooms if I must!), I find Rogers' content with his multi skilled background very informative. Always something to learn!
Wow. Fantastic job. I'm in the middle of doing our bathroom using everything learned from this channel. This has been a great video. I thought I was going above and beyond, but you've outdone us all! I'm getting started with my Jackoboard panels tomorrow 🤞
Looks the business that does! The best thing about watching your videos Roger is that you give me the confidence to do something myself rather than call a tradesperson in. Over the last few years i have saved loads in doing stuff myself even with buying in tools along the way. I've gained the experience in how to fix things, the confidence that I can do it and learned all the correct terminology. A big thanks for all you do for us Roger.
Great looking bathroom and absolutely bomb proof in terms of water proofing!! I'm doing our ensuite DIY, back to structure and 100% my own work, having watched all of Roger's brilliant bathroom videos. I might send some photos to Skill Builder when it's done. I'm not in any trade and so far - touch wood - it's going pretty well.
This is a fabulous job, clearly this chap has taken the time to learn the skills required. Also it’s a credit to Roger and Skillbuilder team for making detailed videos and sharing their expertise and know how online. I fitted my en-suite just as covid lifted, I used a lot of the approach shown on this channel. It’s nowhere as near the level of this job but I’m confident in the plumbing and fitting and it being water tight.
Great job! I fully refitted my upstairs en-suite & refurbed my downstairs loo with concealed cistern after following Rogers videos being a massive help, very rewarding, and I'm a bean counter by trade😂
Wow! Nice work Richard, especially with the tiling around the shower drain. Proper belt and braces. Thanks for sharing this Roger👌👍 I’m praying that my wife doesn’t see this 😂
count me in the "inspired" camp. what a lovely, high quality finish; and the value of robust sealing and tanking... as the guy says, any water that gets through that deserves to...
A lovely neat clean job. The UK has some of the best trades people in the world. An electrician can tackle a plumbers job, it goes to show the level of skill. Don't believe the media about cowboy builders. They are few and normally don't last very long.
James Lawrence and you Roger Bisby are my favorite plumber video maker. James more funny and young, than u, but I like when u old, polite and calm. I learning english english from both of u. But u have diffrent accent. I like when u calm explain anythinng, easy to undestand, and when u show in the video easyer to understand, because some worlds I didnt know. 3 years I following your video,, but I think mostly your old video I like more. Thank you all of video, and good luck for the following life and your any job. Thank you ❤😻🐈⬛♥️
Roger, I completely agree with you about a concealed wall. I have a small bathroom that I want to completely rip out and start again and the concealed wall is what I plan. I won’t lose any real space as I will use the space for recessed cabinets and shelving. With wall hanging toilet and basin, no bath and only a shower it will be an elegant, easy to clean solution that will actually make the bathroom feel bigger not smaller. The only problem I am finding is bathroom fitters don’t seem to like doing anything at all unfamiliar. They walk away and won’t even give you a quote!! C’est la vie.
Excellent finish in the end. It'd have been interesting to see a breakdown on the cost of tools etc. Some of the tools in there cost quite a sum for an individual job. Of course you can always sell on and simply put the margin down as expense, but it'd probably still be significant outlay. I looked at some of the tile cutter equipment when doing a fireplace hearth for my in-laws, as I was doing a mitre similar to that in the video. In the end, i couldn't justify it, so made an MDF mitre box to hold the tile at 45, and a holder for my grinder out of hardwood offcuts, that could run against a straight edge. It worked really well on big thick floor tiles (20mm if I remember correctly). Biggest outlay was the Tenax adhesive for the mitres and the special dual gun for mixing the glue. Anyway, if you're anything like me you'll hold onto the tools for another decade, gathering dust, before eventually selling!
I'm a terror for tools - if there's a tool for a job and I'm only ever gonna do that job once I'll still buy the tool 😂. I did consider making a jig and grinding everything or the alternative was maybe hiring a manual cutter and/or bridge saw but that would've added a time pressure to completing the tiling...In the end I bought the Rubi stuff as a sort of investment into the project, with the option of a future sale to offset some of the cost. At a guess, the Rubi tools (Slim G2 Manual Kit and TC-125 Electric), new floats, trowels, sponges, buckets, sucker cups and a washboy was probably +/-£800 of the overall project but there is a residual value
@@richardpugh8702 I guess that's not a terrible layout given the overall cost of the project. The jig probably took me a day to make and required three passes for each cut, so there'll be efficiencies on buying the proper tools. I wish I'd bought a washboy, as I've done a few tiling jobs around the house and that'd have been a real time saver.
@@ricos1497 I got everything tool, epoxy and tile related from ProTilerTools and they were great. The washboy was only a small basic one, maybe 16litres and £25-30 but definitely easier than a bucket and sponge
Professionals have to pay the bills so everything is about maximising profit ! Doing an ok job as quick as possible ! Every time I look at what professionals have done I see nothing but little faults. Most people just except them but a true perfectionist DIYer will do it to a much better standard than 95% of professional workmen ! In my opinion !
Richard, congratulations on an excellent job all round and if there is anything not to your liking you know exactly who to blame.😉 You do not have to be skilled in any particular trade, you just need to have good craft skills and allocate the time to do the research and of course a significant chunk of time to devote to the planning and execution. You certainly did that in spades. I was a bit confused as to the logic and placement of the isolating valves (poly to copper transition) and how you access them now that the room is finished - or were they just to keep services live on the first floor as you were doing first fix plumbing work? My hat is raised. 👍
Thanks Norman, you're right - the isolating valves were just a way of keeping the rest of the water in the house live 👍🏻 if I ever have to access them again something will have gone terribly wrong 😉
This is fantastic. If this style is what new build apartments have, people will become accustomed to them if they trade up to a house. Looks like £10k is now the de minimis for a fairly basic bathroom, with $10k in materials alone the starting price for something a little fancier. I imagine there's scope for a plumber/ tiler to make a decent margin on doing this work, but as many in the comments have said, you can't get a get them a lot of the time. In Dublin, they're vary scare, and so there are long lead times, and you pay a premium for someone reliable who comes with good referrals.
Stunning job and a great video, thank you :) Genuine question though; I didn't see any provision to service/replace the flush mechanism etc. or replace the entire cistern (a job I just had to do on a back to wall loo) - did I miss something there?
All the cistern internals can be serviced replaced via the access through the flush plate aperture. If I ever need to replace the actual cistern itself then I'm in for a hell of a job...would have to cut out the window sill tile to gain full access
Buying a new(very old) house. Needs everything doing, but I’m tempted to have a go at one of the shower toilets upstairs…….as my project. Someone needs to banish the creepies first though! I’ve a disaster bad back but if I pace myself and don’t go for HUGE HEAVY profile tiles, I may just pull it off as not moving any plumbing………May even post here! I’m a very basic diyer, older female, falling apart…..so if I can do it………….
It is SO difficult to find tradespeople who have the required OCD quotient to do a perfect job. Here we witness absolute mastery of the works required, and total understanding of the best practices. Damned impressive. Bisby is an interesting man. I'm sure he will not mind my saying, hardly 'high born' but blessed with an enquiring mind, and IQ sufficient to calculate and evaluate what he is seeing: a born presenter.
Ha! you are right about the OCD and it is impressive. As for 'Bisby' not minding what you say, he doesn't, but just for the record, as the son of an opera singer and a girl from Rodean he was not born in the gutter but rapidly got there. His parents fell on hard times, due to an inability to stop breeding and a reluctance to live on planet Earth. After a spell in children's homes he was, along with his five siblings marooned on a council estate where their 'posh' accents and ability to utter more than monosylables was beaten out of them by the indigenous population.
@@SkillBuilder Good grief! As I said, interesting. What a back-story. I'd be interested to know how much of the story you've interrogated to your own satisfaction. Family legends can be rabbit holes, with multiple entries and numerous endings. And as an opera singer I must tell you/admit, there are opera singers, and there are opera singers. Most barely survive financially, unless they also teach, or work a parallel job. In passing - whilst at university I went out with a Roedean girl for about year. She exhausted me, in every conceivable way a man can be exhausted. Eventually she dumped me without a backward glance. I was devastated then, but in retrospect - thank God.
I'm both inspired and put off! We got a quote for £8k supply only for a full shower room, quite tempted to try and DIY install it being a bit capable ... but after seeing this I just don't know if the time it would take is worth it for a finish I'm happy with vs paying someone to do a trade standard quality install...
Hi Richard, great job on this, I’ve just done something similar. In the end I hand cut the mitres using a Montolit blade on an angle grinder, I found it quicker than setting the TC125 up … and as you say there is a minimum tile size you can use the track system on. What blade did use in the TC125?
Nice work Richard definitely make a decent plumber tiler bathroom fitter, shame about the light and the shower head shadow! Sometimes spots are not the right decision when Crome fittings are used in a small space.
Interesting comments about time and costs. We have three or four bathrooms to do in our renovation and so far I've first fixed everything myself. (To a ridiculously over-spec'd standard) - I am still trying to judge whether I should add tiling to my skillset. Question for Richard if he's reading: out of all the different parts of that job, would you say the tiling and finishing was the most time consuming for someone who hasn't done an advanced tiling job before? I too prefer bevelled corners to trim... and I'm a perfectionist and imagine I'd take 4 times longer than most because I will do things in the most complicated (but nice) way possible...
Hi Mat, good luck with your renovation! In this project it was definitely the tiling that took the most time & effort...I've got a decent amount of tiling experience but this was a first for a) 1200*600*10 Porcelain, b) mitring edges, c) epoxying mitres, d) epoxy grout...I worked predominantly on my own (a friend did a day labouring for me at one stage to help push things along - mixing and back buttering etc which helped enormously). At 18kg each some of the tiles took 3 or 4 trips from the cutting station in the garden to the wet room and that quickly slows things down and gets tiring...and half a bag of rapid set adhesive (enough for 3+ pieces) was all I could cope with or I'd lose the rest of the mix in the bucket. It meant every 3-4 pieces I was having to do a full tool and bucket wash down before setting up again and making another batch 😴
@@richardpugh8702 Thanks - that's really useful. I'm no stranger to learning new skills from scratch (and obsessing over the detail / taking weeks just to do one small thing!) but our build has dragged on too long already and there's a *lot* of tiling to do throughout, so I reckon I'm going to save that - and the plastering throughout - for someone else. I was slightly tempted to do the tiling work but there's a lot to do (about 70 square metres in total, including other floors as well)...
Compare to Yorkshire builders. Both shower trays in my house have the drain at the highest point. Have a shower and then sweep out the water. Look out the window and all the guttering on the 'renovated buildings' have the down drain again at the highest point. Water cascades across the brick walls encouraging mold and plant growth. Then watch a wall being pointed and the builder is ramming newspaper into the cracks to minimize the amount of mortar used. Here it seems someone can do a proper job rather than just cover everything up. Very rare these days it seems.
So does elements board on the floor count as a decoupling membrane? I'm thinking a metal framed house has a lot of movement from heating and cooling expansion compared to wood and it will be the floor tiles that will suffer first because of the loading stresses. I've seen it before where they've just tiled onto ply that has been latex coated on the floors on metal frame and it's cracked and lifted so wondering if this is actually a viable alternative.
Looks about the same size as my master bathroom so, you know, noted and whatnot. IDK if I'd go with those massive tiles if I was DIYing though, that's a serious job for a DIYer and they're heavy enough to be dangerous in their own right - I'd probably decide something like that was outside my competence, and the price of them for me would push me to get a pro in to do them if nothing else - if you snap one it aint cheap :) Absolutely can't be overstated how much of a game changer for DIYers good tile levellers are though. The thing about DIYing more general as long as you have competence and care is that you're the one who will live with it which IMO pushes you to do a decent job over somebody on piece work. I'm sure it'll be fine but that window sill edge I'd be super paranoid would get chipped - I'd be much happier personally with a square edge I think - I get it though, it's an unusual shape, I think I'd have to compromise in some way or spend a long time looking at design inspiration to make that not a thing, maybe some other tile and an intentional lip. Here's one: what's worse, an electrician doing plumbing or a plumber doing electrics? :) State of the electrics on my central heating system I think I know, but..
Just with regard to the mitres - each 'seam' is kept free from grout/adhesive and then you backfill/overfill with 2 part colour matched epoxy. It sets super hard and can be carved using a Stanley blade as it initially begins to set up. Once set it can be sanded with a diamond pad and it shapes and reinforces the corner...pretty certain it almost as hard as the porcelain itself 😉
I did use Epoxy grout 😉 Mapei Kerapoxy Easy Design works from 1mm to I think 15mm wide. Expensive vs Mapei Ultracolour Plus especially because I did 2 colours (110 Manhattan & 134 Silk) and only needed maybe 500g of each when the minimum quantity to buy is 3kg. It was my first go with epoxy and I found the actual application pretty normal... it's the dwell/working time and the cleaning up that you need to be mindful of but a couple of progressively cleaner washes and a residue remover and we got there. I'm hoping it'll give the room even more longevity
@@richardpugh8702I've considered epoxy grout before but have been too scared. Not sure how necessary it is today with modern 'normal' grouts being so good.
The mitred edges on the tiles are great. I'd like to have a go at doing that on my DIY project, but I am not sure what product I need to buy to fill the mitres. I don't believe its grout.
Found it kind of strange that he put stop valves _under the shower tray_ at the pex-copper transition. A full body air dryer @ £1,400 on Amazon. Yeah... It'd be interesting to see the cost breakdown to see where that £10K went. While the quality of the job looks fantastic, I'm not loving the end result from a design point of view. I'm only going on the before and after pictures (first/last) but it now _looks_ much more cramped, although that could be the camera playing tricks. Also, no shower niche? Where does all the shampoo, soap, face clothes etc live?
I am not sure the isolating valves were anything more than a way of keeping the water on while he worked on the downstream end. Yes it would have been nice to have isolating valves somewhere handy but, as a plumber I tend to turn off at the mains because service valves often leak. As for the design, I think that is a question of individual taste and I respect that. .
Wet rooms - a nightmare.. water everywhere that needs mopped up... An open shower ( no door just a screen ) with a slight recess is much more sensible..
I don't know about anyone else but finding a reasonable cost front face fitting hands free flush is a nightmare. Our tank is boxed in a standard WC unit and the push (cable) is front mounted as are most. Can I find a touch free version nah, they all say top mount.
I know what you mean - an infrared sensor flush is a choice that really needs to be committed to at the install stage so the cistern and flush mechanism is compatible
@@richardpugh8702 I have easy access to the flush mechanism and the tank so that's not a problem to replace the whole unit. The problem is I cant find a flush and control that says suitable for button front mount. The ones Ive seen have cables and batteries but I don't think they are long enough to direct forward instead of up. Those I have seen appear to be made for ceramic lid retrofit only...but I may be wrong.
A great job! But I would agree Roger you couldn’t make any money as a professional working like this. I would allow 10-12 days for this job and turn it out to a very high standard
👍🏻 Curious - How would you allocate your 12 days across rip out, first fix, waterproofing, levelling, tiling, grouting etc and how many.of you in team?
Most people won't but that doesn't mean all. There are lots of people out there who spend £30K on a bathroom refurb. Assuming people won't buy it and would rather have a cheap bathroom is an error. If you want better priced work you have to show the customer you are worth it.
Materials and tools approx £10.5-11k. Time approx 20days+/-....there's an old Chinese proverb that says 'you can have good, fast and cheap but can only pick 2!' 😉
Appreciate the input ....Definitely isn't cold with the underfloor heating trickling along and although it's fully tiled I wouldn't say its echoey. The spend was considered with longevity in mind - if it lasts 20yrs that's only £500/yr...of course it could've been cheaper with different choices eg fittings and tiles but we didn't want to compromise on a room we will never need to do again.
@@richardpugh8702 no offence just not for me , I’m not a fan of fully tiled bathrooms because of the sound , it gives a feeling of cold because of the echo not the heating . Imagine it with a bit of hardwood or softness, maybe a towel rack , plants or something to soften the room. I get it would last but you don’t need to spend 10k to do that. Plenty of amazing recycled bathrooms that ooze great classic design that don’t cost the earth. Amazing work btw, what will you do with all those expensive tile cutters? Mind you I’m terrible at collecting tools just for one job:)
@@SkillBuilder 2 different points , fully tiled makes rooms sound echoey, I’d love you to do an a video on poorly designed sounding rooms, look up some of the TED talks by Julian Treasure , he starts one by saying “I’m beginning to think architects don’t have ears” lol warm feeling rooms are full of soft furnishings, cold feeling rooms are full full of glass & hard polished surfaces, kitchen’s, bathrooms etc it makes a huge difference to how comfortable people feel in a room .
@@thomasbroker69 haven't decided on the tile cutters yet...I'm a terror for tools so I'll probably keep them 'just in case'... Or maybe sell them and reinvest into something I'll use more often 😉
There is a big difference between someone who is trying to make a living and be competetive and someone who is doing it for love. As the chap explained in the vid he spent over a month doing that job, He has done a truly great job to be fair but could never make a career at that rate.
@@SkillBuilder Half was perhaps a bit of exaggeration :) But to start all the hidden joints. Be those soldered or with conex. Here we are not allowed to do that. If it is a repair on an existing installation it is fine though. Hence why we tend to use PEX RIR pipes or alupex. And use a "whole" pipe from point A to point B. And if you have a hidden joint it has to have some kind of leak safety. So if the joint at the ibox started leaking that leak would show itself at the distributorpipe and not in the wall. This is of course only in regards to pressurised pipes. so these rules don't apply to the pipes from the ibox to the showerhead. I'm a danish plumber with 25 years of experience. Here we generally only use copperpipes for gas these days. sometimes for heating aswell. There were other things that caught my eye but i can't remember. Love the channel BTW and all the work in this video was nicely done especially the finesse with the tiles at the window.
@@SkillBuilder And on a sidenote i envy the english plumbers ability to bend copperpipes. It just looks great. The last time i did a series of bends on a gaspipe it was ok, but the lack of experience did show. also took me an extra attempt to be honest :)
Hi looking for some advice on 2 new build bathrooms, one in a dormer conversion and the other a new bathroom extension. Both will have showers in or maybe wet room. And both are bare brick at the moment as not had the plumbing and electrics in yet. My question is do I need wedi plasterboard on walls and floor and then tank on top ? Or is wedi sufficient?
Done bathrooms including plumbing, electrics, tiling, plastering, installation of all the equipment etc. No issues even after years. Done with better materials and quality-wise much better than some so-called "professionals" I have seen in my life. There are many people who are called DIY-ers like me who can do all sorts of stuff and to at least as good a standard as professionals if not better. I personally hate this term "DIY" and "DIY-er". Something happened to many men in the last few decades and they gradually lost their manhood. In my view, if a man can't do these things he ain't a man.
I’m a multi tradesman and I’ve seen plenty of DIY jobs done as good as any professional. Always worth having a try at things.
Just comes down to aptitude really. Some people just can.
Give it a go, worse case you have to call a professional swallow your pride and show them the mess you made 😂
@@cameronmoore5403I love this mindset.
That isn't just his bathroom, it is his dream brought into reality. Well done and thanks for showing and inspiring us.
The hardest part of most DIY jobs is having trust in your own abilities. Great job, great vid and thanks for sharing.
well done mate great job
I also did my own bathroom after watching your videos Roger its been two years and everything is still like new and solid , the only thing i didnt do was the tiling, when the tiler arrived he said it was the best preped job hes ever seen so says it all really
That is one hell of an accolade from the tiler. Well done on taking the job on I am almost at the stage where I won't do tiling but every so often I can't wait for the tiler to find a slot.
I never comment on videos but your videos have helped me do a family bathroom and 1 ensuite with the last ensuite currently in progress. Using your videos I've done everything from stud work, pipework, radiators, wastes, wet room prep, floorboards, screeds, underfloor heating, tiling, hanging doors, shower trays, bath, etc. The only two trades I've got in are plastering and electrics both of who commented on the quality of the work. Sometimes things have gone wrong but you do them again and sort the problem. I feel I've ended up with something I'd have had to pay 2-3 times the amount to get someone else to do. "Belts and braces" has been said a lot over the last year....Big thanks!
I was able to fit our bathrooms thanks to Roger's elements videos. I wish you'd do some more full bathroom transformation vids, they were my favourites 😊
More to come. I am doing one right now but don't have time to film it
Love this video. Brought back my PTSD from an almost identical renovation of our ensuite as a covid lock down project after similarly being inspired by Roger's bathroom videos 4 years ago. And complete with LED illuminated niches of course. Wasn't the plan, but couldn't find a tiler willing to handle the 80x80cm floor tiles, nor cut them to the tray, so similarly took that on. So pleased with the result. Reading the comments here, there must be hundreds of scarred DIYers out there thanks to Roger! Cost us £10k also, but also saved thousands. Many thanks.
I'm finally in the last leg of my bathroom renovation, having started with the rip out 2 years back. This channel has been my inspiration for everything!! I've done all the plumbing into an accessible manifold, with pipes running to each fixture with no joins. I installed a pre-wall for the wall hung Roca toilet and sinks, plus an Impey in floor shower system so the tiling is seamless - this included an envelope cut. I've used Elements boards all round and taken inspiration from many of your videos. I waterproofed the entire room to fit with new building regs, and I also included the ProWarm underfloor heating kit along with good lighting, including ambient LED under the pre-wall shelf and in the niche.
It's been a heck of a job as I've only had 1-2 days a week max to do it all but I've just finished the main tiling off and I'm about to start the final feature tile shower wall. I've done mitre cuts into the windows rather than using a profile. The tiling I am very happy with so far, and as a perfectionist that's difficult to achieve!!
After that it's all done, and even with £1k of tools (which I can use again) it's cost me less than £8k so far for everything. I was quoted £20-25k to have it done. :O
Just watched more of this - very nice job, and almost identical in many places to my own. Even the layout is similar with no bath, and a walk in shower.
Someone who’s shown care and wanted to ensure that nothing went wrong after it was completed! Great showing this for those who plan or intend to have a bathroom reno.
Roger, your videos helped me fit out 2 bathrooms and your advice has helped and inspired me with DIY since being a precocious teenager in the 80s when you did your LBC Fix it Phone-Ins! Thank you.
Thanks Matt
I used to love doing that LBC Fix It show
He is rightfully proud of a very impressive piece of hard work. It just goes to show that with patience and care, and with a bit of experience, it is possible to tackle many things around the house that seemed impossible at first. Even though I do not think I would ever feel confident enough to do something like this myself, watching Skillbuilder videos has made me more confident and capable.
OMG, normal, modern bathroom on the UK! The man is awesome!
If Richard took that much care doing that bathroom he must be one hell of a sparky 👏🏻👏🏻👍
A good DIY is better than a professional every time ! No time restrictions, so everything can be perfect ! As a professional knows perfect takes time but most customers just want it done good enough at a reasonable price, but if you do it yourself, with a good eye for detail it can be so much better than good ! I started at 15 (I’m 53 Now) when my sister had her kitchen wallpapered by a friend who was a professional decorator. It was awful and said I could have done it better, before I knew it I was wallpapering her hall and stairs. Just read the instructions and used my common sense and it was a much better job, they said it was perfect ! I will tackle everything from bathrooms kitchens plastering bricklaying electrics(HND in electrical engineering) carpentry garage conversions roofing ect. ect. For myself and professionally. I am a perfectionist it has to be perfect everything I do, if I’m not happy it gets done again lol ! But as he shows in this video, if you’re going to do a job buy the right quality tools for the job it makes it so much easier ! I’ve done job for people where I have made no money because the tools I’ve brought are more expensive than the price of the job, but I’ve got the tools for the rest of my life, even if I don’t use them for the next five years I’ve still got them for the next time !
Absolutely love this channel, as primarily a kitchen fitter, (bathrooms if I must!), I find Rogers' content with his multi skilled background very informative. Always something to learn!
Wow. Fantastic job. I'm in the middle of doing our bathroom using everything learned from this channel. This has been a great video. I thought I was going above and beyond, but you've outdone us all! I'm getting started with my Jackoboard panels tomorrow 🤞
Yes a brilliant work of art And yes This SkillBuilder Channel is priceless! Full of practical advice and helpful hidden gems 😊 Thankyou 😊
Much appreciated!
Looks the business that does!
The best thing about watching your videos Roger is that you give me the confidence to do something myself rather than call a tradesperson in.
Over the last few years i have saved loads in doing stuff myself even with buying in tools along the way. I've gained the experience in how to fix things, the confidence that I can do it and learned all the correct terminology.
A big thanks for all you do for us Roger.
Wow that is truly Belt & braces = QUALITY.
well done to Richard.
Great Tip : Take photos of every stage of build ✅🏴
Great looking bathroom and absolutely bomb proof in terms of water proofing!!
I'm doing our ensuite DIY, back to structure and 100% my own work, having watched all of Roger's brilliant bathroom videos. I might send some photos to Skill Builder when it's done. I'm not in any trade and so far - touch wood - it's going pretty well.
This is a fabulous job, clearly this chap has taken the time to learn the skills required.
Also it’s a credit to Roger and Skillbuilder team for making detailed videos and sharing their expertise and know how online.
I fitted my en-suite just as covid lifted, I used a lot of the approach shown on this channel. It’s nowhere as near the level of this job but I’m confident in the plumbing and fitting and it being water tight.
Great job! I fully refitted my upstairs en-suite & refurbed my downstairs loo with concealed cistern after following Rogers videos being a massive help, very rewarding, and I'm a bean counter by trade😂
What a wholesome video. I am in the camp of being put unfortunately. But my hat off to the gentleman. It looks amazing.
Richard it was a pleasure to support you through this project .
Amazing...these people are speaking a language I don't understand but i'm very impressed.
Great work! Skilled craftsman. I aspire to that level of craftsmanship.
What a finish! - Kudos to the man.
mint job that mate ... spot on ..
nice to see some one taking pride in ther work ...
Wow! Nice work Richard, especially with the tiling around the shower drain. Proper belt and braces. Thanks for sharing this Roger👌👍 I’m praying that my wife doesn’t see this 😂
Well done him, thanks for sharing.
count me in the "inspired" camp. what a lovely, high quality finish; and the value of robust sealing and tanking... as the guy says, any water that gets through that deserves to...
I love seeing a good quality craftsman at his trade.
A labour of love. Well done on a top job.
Such an enjoyable video to watch. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! We thought it was a good project to cover and there is a lot to learn from it.
Very well done Richard.
Having worked in the US most of my life, I have to admire how much effort you guys still go through...lol
A lovely neat clean job. The UK has some of the best trades people in the world. An electrician can tackle a plumbers job, it goes to show the level of skill. Don't believe the media about cowboy builders. They are few and normally don't last very long.
It’s not cowboy builders it’s cowboys who think they are builders.
If you are good tradesman in your normal trade it usually follows that you will try and do neat work in anything else you attempt .
James Lawrence and you Roger Bisby are my favorite plumber video maker. James more funny and young, than u, but I like when u old, polite and calm. I learning english english from both of u. But u have diffrent accent. I like when u calm explain anythinng, easy to undestand, and when u show in the video easyer to understand, because some worlds I didnt know. 3 years I following your video,, but I think mostly your old video I like more. Thank you all of video, and good luck for the following life and your any job. Thank you ❤😻🐈⬛♥️
Really inspirational job, enjoyed the video.
Roger, I completely agree with you about a concealed wall. I have a small bathroom that I want to completely rip out and start again and the concealed wall is what I plan. I won’t lose any real space as I will use the space for recessed cabinets and shelving. With wall hanging toilet and basin, no bath and only a shower it will be an elegant, easy to clean solution that will actually make the bathroom feel bigger not smaller.
The only problem I am finding is bathroom fitters don’t seem to like doing anything at all unfamiliar. They walk away and won’t even give you a quote!! C’est la vie.
Amazing job well done 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻Roger is right tho "some people will be put off" working on it in future 😂😂😂
Excellent finish in the end. It'd have been interesting to see a breakdown on the cost of tools etc. Some of the tools in there cost quite a sum for an individual job. Of course you can always sell on and simply put the margin down as expense, but it'd probably still be significant outlay.
I looked at some of the tile cutter equipment when doing a fireplace hearth for my in-laws, as I was doing a mitre similar to that in the video. In the end, i couldn't justify it, so made an MDF mitre box to hold the tile at 45, and a holder for my grinder out of hardwood offcuts, that could run against a straight edge. It worked really well on big thick floor tiles (20mm if I remember correctly). Biggest outlay was the Tenax adhesive for the mitres and the special dual gun for mixing the glue. Anyway, if you're anything like me you'll hold onto the tools for another decade, gathering dust, before eventually selling!
I'm a terror for tools - if there's a tool for a job and I'm only ever gonna do that job once I'll still buy the tool 😂. I did consider making a jig and grinding everything or the alternative was maybe hiring a manual cutter and/or bridge saw but that would've added a time pressure to completing the tiling...In the end I bought the Rubi stuff as a sort of investment into the project, with the option of a future sale to offset some of the cost. At a guess, the Rubi tools (Slim G2 Manual Kit and TC-125 Electric), new floats, trowels, sponges, buckets, sucker cups and a washboy was probably +/-£800 of the overall project but there is a residual value
@@richardpugh8702 I guess that's not a terrible layout given the overall cost of the project. The jig probably took me a day to make and required three passes for each cut, so there'll be efficiencies on buying the proper tools. I wish I'd bought a washboy, as I've done a few tiling jobs around the house and that'd have been a real time saver.
@@ricos1497 I got everything tool, epoxy and tile related from ProTilerTools and they were great. The washboy was only a small basic one, maybe 16litres and £25-30 but definitely easier than a bucket and sponge
Professionals have to pay the bills so everything is about maximising profit ! Doing an ok job as quick as possible ! Every time I look at what professionals have done I see nothing but little faults. Most people just except them but a true perfectionist DIYer will do it to a much better standard than 95% of professional workmen ! In my opinion !
Top job Richard 👍🏻
Richard, congratulations on an excellent job all round and if there is anything not to your liking you know exactly who to blame.😉 You do not have to be skilled in any particular trade, you just need to have good craft skills and allocate the time to do the research and of course a significant chunk of time to devote to the planning and execution. You certainly did that in spades.
I was a bit confused as to the logic and placement of the isolating valves (poly to copper transition) and how you access them now that the room is finished - or were they just to keep services live on the first floor as you were doing first fix plumbing work?
My hat is raised. 👍
Thanks Norman, you're right - the isolating valves were just a way of keeping the rest of the water in the house live 👍🏻 if I ever have to access them again something will have gone terribly wrong 😉
Fabulous work!
Great job Richard.
This is fantastic. If this style is what new build apartments have, people will become accustomed to them if they trade up to a house. Looks like £10k is now the de minimis for a fairly basic bathroom, with $10k in materials alone the starting price for something a little fancier. I imagine there's scope for a plumber/ tiler to make a decent margin on doing this work, but as many in the comments have said, you can't get a get them a lot of the time. In Dublin, they're vary scare, and so there are long lead times, and you pay a premium for someone reliable who comes with good referrals.
Stunning job and a great video, thank you :) Genuine question though; I didn't see any provision to service/replace the flush mechanism etc. or replace the entire cistern (a job I just had to do on a back to wall loo) - did I miss something there?
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All the cistern internals can be serviced replaced via the access through the flush plate aperture. If I ever need to replace the actual cistern itself then I'm in for a hell of a job...would have to cut out the window sill tile to gain full access
Sparks done a great job.
Buying a new(very old) house. Needs everything doing, but I’m tempted to have a go at one of the shower toilets upstairs…….as my project. Someone needs to banish the creepies first though! I’ve a disaster bad back but if I pace myself and don’t go for HUGE HEAVY profile tiles, I may just pull it off as not moving any plumbing………May even post here! I’m a very basic diyer, older female, falling apart…..so if I can do it………….
Amazing, well done buddy 😊 - Im doing mine at moment. Nothing like this though. Need to elevate my game ☹️
It is SO difficult to find tradespeople who have the required OCD quotient to do a perfect job. Here we witness absolute mastery of the works required, and total understanding of the best practices. Damned impressive.
Bisby is an interesting man. I'm sure he will not mind my saying, hardly 'high born' but blessed with an enquiring mind, and IQ sufficient to calculate and evaluate what he is seeing: a born presenter.
Ha! you are right about the OCD and it is impressive.
As for 'Bisby' not minding what you say, he doesn't, but just for the record, as the son of an opera singer and a girl from Rodean he was not born in the gutter but rapidly got there.
His parents fell on hard times, due to an inability to stop breeding and a reluctance to live on planet Earth. After a spell in children's homes he was, along with his five siblings marooned on a council estate where their 'posh' accents and ability to utter more than monosylables was beaten out of them by the indigenous population.
@@SkillBuilder Good grief! As I said, interesting. What a back-story. I'd be interested to know how much of the story you've interrogated to your own satisfaction. Family legends can be rabbit holes, with multiple entries and numerous endings. And as an opera singer I must tell you/admit, there are opera singers, and there are opera singers. Most barely survive financially, unless they also teach, or work a parallel job.
In passing - whilst at university I went out with a Roedean girl for about year. She exhausted me, in every conceivable way a man can be exhausted. Eventually she dumped me without a backward glance. I was devastated then, but in retrospect - thank God.
I love this kind of work.
what a class job awesome well done
I'm both inspired and put off! We got a quote for £8k supply only for a full shower room, quite tempted to try and DIY install it being a bit capable ... but after seeing this I just don't know if the time it would take is worth it for a finish I'm happy with vs paying someone to do a trade standard quality install...
Take photos, great advice for sure.
Hi Richard, great job on this, I’ve just done something similar. In the end I hand cut the mitres using a Montolit blade on an angle grinder, I found it quicker than setting the TC125 up … and as you say there is a minimum tile size you can use the track system on. What blade did use in the TC125?
I think it was a Rubi TPI SuperPro 125 - the included blade wasn't bad but the upgrade was worth it
Nice work Richard definitely make a decent plumber tiler bathroom fitter, shame about the light and the shower head shadow! Sometimes spots are not the right decision when Crome fittings are used in a small space.
really nice. thank you.
well done, fantastic job looks amazing
I love this channel!
Interesting comments about time and costs. We have three or four bathrooms to do in our renovation and so far I've first fixed everything myself. (To a ridiculously over-spec'd standard) - I am still trying to judge whether I should add tiling to my skillset. Question for Richard if he's reading: out of all the different parts of that job, would you say the tiling and finishing was the most time consuming for someone who hasn't done an advanced tiling job before? I too prefer bevelled corners to trim... and I'm a perfectionist and imagine I'd take 4 times longer than most because I will do things in the most complicated (but nice) way possible...
Hi Mat, good luck with your renovation! In this project it was definitely the tiling that took the most time & effort...I've got a decent amount of tiling experience but this was a first for a) 1200*600*10 Porcelain, b) mitring edges, c) epoxying mitres, d) epoxy grout...I worked predominantly on my own (a friend did a day labouring for me at one stage to help push things along - mixing and back buttering etc which helped enormously). At 18kg each some of the tiles took 3 or 4 trips from the cutting station in the garden to the wet room and that quickly slows things down and gets tiring...and half a bag of rapid set adhesive (enough for 3+ pieces) was all I could cope with or I'd lose the rest of the mix in the bucket. It meant every 3-4 pieces I was having to do a full tool and bucket wash down before setting up again and making another batch 😴
@@richardpugh8702 Thanks - that's really useful. I'm no stranger to learning new skills from scratch (and obsessing over the detail / taking weeks just to do one small thing!) but our build has dragged on too long already and there's a *lot* of tiling to do throughout, so I reckon I'm going to save that - and the plastering throughout - for someone else. I was slightly tempted to do the tiling work but there's a lot to do (about 70 square metres in total, including other floors as well)...
@@richardpugh8702May I ask why you used rapid set for the wall tiles then rather than extended open time / normal set?
Great Job!! 🙌
Ill tell you what for a welch bloke he done bloody well 😊 only joking it’s amazing and its a shame 😢more people dont put the time & effort in
Really great video. Especially nice because I was born and raised in RIsca... just a few miles north of you. Richard what's your next project ?
My missus is from Risca 😉 Haven't heard what the next project is yet ... I'm sure she'll let me know before long
Compare to Yorkshire builders. Both shower trays in my house have the drain at the highest point. Have a shower and then sweep out the water. Look out the window and all the guttering on the 'renovated buildings' have the down drain again at the highest point. Water cascades across the brick walls encouraging mold and plant growth. Then watch a wall being pointed and the builder is ramming newspaper into the cracks to minimize the amount of mortar used. Here it seems someone can do a proper job rather than just cover everything up. Very rare these days it seems.
Wonderful; job, as it should be done. I’ve done many of these on a professional basis. £20,000 bathrooms lined up. Based in Essex
What a job. Well done mate. 🫡I’m about to tackle our bathroom that looks like it’s not been changed for 50 years 😬
Good luck 👍🏻👍🏻
So does elements board on the floor count as a decoupling membrane? I'm thinking a metal framed house has a lot of movement from heating and cooling expansion compared to wood and it will be the floor tiles that will suffer first because of the loading stresses. I've seen it before where they've just tiled onto ply that has been latex coated on the floors on metal frame and it's cracked and lifted so wondering if this is actually a viable alternative.
Yes it is a decoupler
very impressive 🎉
Nice one.
Looks about the same size as my master bathroom so, you know, noted and whatnot. IDK if I'd go with those massive tiles if I was DIYing though, that's a serious job for a DIYer and they're heavy enough to be dangerous in their own right - I'd probably decide something like that was outside my competence, and the price of them for me would push me to get a pro in to do them if nothing else - if you snap one it aint cheap :) Absolutely can't be overstated how much of a game changer for DIYers good tile levellers are though. The thing about DIYing more general as long as you have competence and care is that you're the one who will live with it which IMO pushes you to do a decent job over somebody on piece work. I'm sure it'll be fine but that window sill edge I'd be super paranoid would get chipped - I'd be much happier personally with a square edge I think - I get it though, it's an unusual shape, I think I'd have to compromise in some way or spend a long time looking at design inspiration to make that not a thing, maybe some other tile and an intentional lip.
Here's one: what's worse, an electrician doing plumbing or a plumber doing electrics? :) State of the electrics on my central heating system I think I know, but..
Just with regard to the mitres - each 'seam' is kept free from grout/adhesive and then you backfill/overfill with 2 part colour matched epoxy. It sets super hard and can be carved using a Stanley blade as it initially begins to set up. Once set it can be sanded with a diamond pad and it shapes and reinforces the corner...pretty certain it almost as hard as the porcelain itself 😉
@@richardpugh8702 I'm sure that's probably true - wouldn't stop me being paranoid about it as an exposed corner though, personally :)
Well done. He didn't say what grout he used, epoxy by any chance?
I very much doubt that he used epoxy but let's see. It is difficult to work with.
I did use Epoxy grout 😉 Mapei Kerapoxy Easy Design works from 1mm to I think 15mm wide. Expensive vs Mapei Ultracolour Plus especially because I did 2 colours (110 Manhattan & 134 Silk) and only needed maybe 500g of each when the minimum quantity to buy is 3kg. It was my first go with epoxy and I found the actual application pretty normal... it's the dwell/working time and the cleaning up that you need to be mindful of but a couple of progressively cleaner washes and a residue remover and we got there. I'm hoping it'll give the room even more longevity
@@richardpugh8702I've considered epoxy grout before but have been too scared. Not sure how necessary it is today with modern 'normal' grouts being so good.
Excellent attention to detail. Well done
Nice.
The mitred edges on the tiles are great.
I'd like to have a go at doing that on my DIY project, but I am not sure what product I need to buy to fill the mitres. I don't believe its grout.
The product I used is Tenax 2 part Epoxy. The base product is white and you buy pigments to enable you to mix to the required colour.
@richardpugh8702 Thanks for the reply Richard.
Love a mitre on the tile, time for some new tools me thinks
Wow absolutely fab… loving the stone effect tiles. Any idea of the exact tile used in this project?
We can find out
The tiles came from Mandarin Stone. The grey is called Kast Light Grey and the brown is Forge Oxide 👍🏻
@@richardpugh8702Richard did you consider using a grinder for the cutting at any point?
Found it kind of strange that he put stop valves _under the shower tray_ at the pex-copper transition.
A full body air dryer @ £1,400 on Amazon. Yeah... It'd be interesting to see the cost breakdown to see where that £10K went.
While the quality of the job looks fantastic, I'm not loving the end result from a design point of view. I'm only going on the before and after pictures (first/last) but it now _looks_ much more cramped, although that could be the camera playing tricks. Also, no shower niche? Where does all the shampoo, soap, face clothes etc live?
I am not sure the isolating valves were anything more than a way of keeping the water on while he worked on the downstream end. Yes it would have been nice to have isolating valves somewhere handy but, as a plumber I tend to turn off at the mains because service valves often leak.
As for the design, I think that is a question of individual taste and I respect that.
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@@SkillBuilder I thought that might be the reason too. Is there any risk to having those valves there if undisturbed? i.e. a leak?
Lovely old job
Research and the right tools and attitude equals...results...the lack of the afford mentioned equals...headaches and bills
Where does the bog roll go?
Holder is on the end of vanity out of sight 😉
Up yer bum normally. Why where do you put it?
Where’s the bidet?
bidets are soooo last year. Now people have washlets or bidet toilets
@@SkillBuilder Maybe in avocado, which is back in vogue.
I would worry that the lifetime of that bathroom is going to be longer than the lifetime of the UPVC window frame he tiled right up to.
Wet rooms - a nightmare.. water everywhere that needs mopped up... An open shower ( no door just a screen ) with a slight recess is much more sensible..
There is a screen to separate the wet area. Some of the photos are a bit out of sequence 😉 Timeline 19:20
Nice 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
I don't know about anyone else but finding a reasonable cost front face fitting hands free flush is a nightmare. Our tank is boxed in a standard WC unit and the push (cable) is front mounted as are most. Can I find a touch free version nah, they all say top mount.
I know what you mean - an infrared sensor flush is a choice that really needs to be committed to at the install stage so the cistern and flush mechanism is compatible
@@richardpugh8702 I have easy access to the flush mechanism and the tank so that's not a problem to replace the whole unit. The problem is I cant find a flush and control that says suitable for button front mount. The ones Ive seen have cables and batteries but I don't think they are long enough to direct forward instead of up. Those I have seen appear to be made for ceramic lid retrofit only...but I may be wrong.
A great job! But I would agree Roger you couldn’t make any money as a professional working like this. I would allow 10-12 days for this job and turn it out to a very high standard
👍🏻 Curious - How would you allocate your 12 days across rip out, first fix, waterproofing, levelling, tiling, grouting etc and how many.of you in team?
Most won’t pay the price for a job like that. You should calculate the material and labour cost and put the price up.
Most people won't but that doesn't mean all. There are lots of people out there who spend £30K on a bathroom refurb. Assuming people won't buy it and would rather have a cheap bathroom is an error. If you want better priced work you have to show the customer you are worth it.
Materials and tools approx £10.5-11k. Time approx 20days+/-....there's an old Chinese proverb that says 'you can have good, fast and cheap but can only pick 2!' 😉
0:39 put that away or you'll go blind..
😂
It’s nice but I’d never spend 10k on a a bathroom, that’s crazy..it’ll be so echoey and cold feeling
Ah! if you spend a little less will that make it less echoey? £20,0000 for a shower room is not unusual these days.
Appreciate the input ....Definitely isn't cold with the underfloor heating trickling along and although it's fully tiled I wouldn't say its echoey. The spend was considered with longevity in mind - if it lasts 20yrs that's only £500/yr...of course it could've been cheaper with different choices eg fittings and tiles but we didn't want to compromise on a room we will never need to do again.
@@richardpugh8702 no offence just not for me , I’m not a fan of fully tiled bathrooms because of the sound , it gives a feeling of cold because of the echo not the heating . Imagine it with a bit of hardwood or softness, maybe a towel rack , plants or something to soften the room. I get it would last but you don’t need to spend 10k to do that. Plenty of amazing recycled bathrooms that ooze great classic design that don’t cost the earth. Amazing work btw, what will you do with all those expensive tile cutters? Mind you I’m terrible at collecting tools just for one job:)
@@SkillBuilder 2 different points , fully tiled makes rooms sound echoey, I’d love you to do an a video on poorly designed sounding rooms, look up some of the TED talks by Julian Treasure , he starts one by saying “I’m beginning to think architects don’t have ears” lol warm feeling rooms are full of soft furnishings, cold feeling rooms are full full of glass & hard polished surfaces, kitchen’s, bathrooms etc it makes a huge difference to how comfortable people feel in a room .
@@thomasbroker69 haven't decided on the tile cutters yet...I'm a terror for tools so I'll probably keep them 'just in case'... Or maybe sell them and reinvest into something I'll use more often 😉
D.i.yers are better than trades men, tradesmen just want to take your money then move on to the next job a.s.a.p
Well that's a bit of a generalisation haha. A good DIYer can certainly do a professional job.
In my experience most aren't!😂
WOW!
There is a big difference between someone who is trying to make a living and be competetive and someone who is doing it for love. As the chap explained in the vid he spent over a month doing that job, He has done a truly great job to be fair but could never make a career at that rate.
Love this comment, everytime I have had a so called “pro” near my house it has been a disaster, hate em!
English plumbing is so weird.. Half of this is in direct violation of building codes where i live :)
Give us a few examples, it is always interesting to compare ways of doing things.
Which is where exactly?
@@SkillBuilder Half was perhaps a bit of exaggeration :)
But to start all the hidden joints. Be those soldered or with conex. Here we are not allowed to do that. If it is a repair on an existing installation it is fine though. Hence why we tend to use PEX RIR pipes or alupex. And use a "whole" pipe from point A to point B. And if you have a hidden joint it has to have some kind of leak safety. So if the joint at the ibox started leaking that leak would show itself at the distributorpipe and not in the wall. This is of course only in regards to pressurised pipes. so these rules don't apply to the pipes from the ibox to the showerhead.
I'm a danish plumber with 25 years of experience.
Here we generally only use copperpipes for gas these days. sometimes for heating aswell.
There were other things that caught my eye but i can't remember.
Love the channel BTW and all the work in this video was nicely done especially the finesse with the tiles at the window.
@@armoris66 Denmark, we have very stringent rules here :)
@@SkillBuilder And on a sidenote i envy the english plumbers ability to bend copperpipes. It just looks great. The last time i did a series of bends on a gaspipe it was ok, but the lack of experience did show. also took me an extra attempt to be honest :)
Good job but nothing special
a good job is a special job. I have been out to more leaking showers than I can count.
Hi looking for some advice on 2 new build bathrooms, one in a dormer conversion and the other a new bathroom extension. Both will have showers in or maybe wet room. And both are bare brick at the moment as not had the plumbing and electrics in yet. My question is do I need wedi plasterboard on walls and floor and then tank on top ? Or is wedi sufficient?
Done bathrooms including plumbing, electrics, tiling, plastering, installation of all the equipment etc. No issues even after years. Done with better materials and quality-wise much better than some so-called "professionals" I have seen in my life. There are many people who are called DIY-ers like me who can do all sorts of stuff and to at least as good a standard as professionals if not better. I personally hate this term "DIY" and "DIY-er". Something happened to many men in the last few decades and they gradually lost their manhood. In my view, if a man can't do these things he ain't a man.