Its a shower Jim, but not as we know it

Tiling the shower walls:

Headway!

Really feels like Im starting to get somewhere. Eventually managed to source some fibre-cement sheeting from Eternit (Hydropanel) Their sales rep Stephane was very helpful and got Point P of Lons to order 10 sheets for me. The sheets arrived with 20 sheets of normal plasterboard in between downpours and its now all stacked in the hall.

Have installed a pulley system (yet to be tested) to get the sheeting up the stairs as it weighs significantly more than the 10mm p.board.

While waiting for the sheeting, I decided to demolish the downstairs toilet to make way for the larder -- still a work in progress :-)

 
 

Some progress at last! Inlet plumbing for shower completed as well asjustments to central heating plan and feeds for extra radiators.

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