Progress at last

Over year and almost nothing achieved?! It was time to do something!

OK so while Claire took the kids to visit their grandparents in the UK, I had about 4.5 days to try and get somewhere with the bathroom. The main goal was to move the bog and get the false floor in place. This was a fairly major task and would require the bog and water supply to be disrupted over a couple of days at least. Hence why we waited till most of the family were out. Once the false floor was in place, we would be able to continue work bit by bit without any huge pressure to get it finished.

I had already prepared most of the floor joists in steel (improving my stick welding technique with each one). By the time Claire and the kids had returned I had pretty much achieved what I had planned to get done:
Remove existing toilet
Install floor joists and enough flooring to install new toilet
Plumb in new toilet
Tidy outlet from boiler
Plumb in basin
Move shower cubicle from downstairs to new upstairs bathroom

Demolishing and virtual progress

OK we found a bit of spare time and attacked the bathroom with hammers. Result: removed the chimney and now have space to put in the bath.
















I have also brushed up on my ShipConstructor and AutoCAD skills to model the pipework that we are going to need to put in and to check that there will be space to fit all the items we want to get in. For the techies, the initial modelling was done using Maxsurf (during alpha-stage debugging). This was then exported to ShipConstructor (which runs inside AutoCAD to do the detailed modelling and pipe layouts.

Bagnere de Bigorre Bathroom Development

Welcome to Bagnere de Bigorre Bathroom Development.
This blog will track the progress of our bathroom renovation!



The room was originally a kitchen when the house was two apartments.

It had been painted a pretty bright red by the tenant in the 80s.



So far its been gutted, the ceiling pulled down and the old plaster removed from the walls ready to be lined and insulated (it gets cold here in the winter!)

We also have just had a new condensing boiler installed. The room is going to be split into two with a utility room on one side and the bathroom on the other. The boiler will end up in the utility room along with the washing machine and dryer.