Bathroom Mods Part 4 - Testing

Err, Where's Wally?



It seems that it doesn't take much bubble bath to make loads of bubbles when you start the pump... Despite all the bubbles, everything worked exactly as it should. I have to say we're both really pleased, 4 days from purchase to completion and we've ended up with a way better solution to the problem than we had originally planned.

I've also had a request for a photo of the finished article, so hear it is. Difficult to get a pitcure of it all in one go, this is the best I could do.

Bathroom Mods Part 3 - Solving the height issue

The offending article,

which connects the back of the shower unit to the post which supports the glass. This piece takes the height of the unit over the 215cm available and as well as adding structure, houses the main shower head, and the hose that connects to the sideways sprays in the post.

Since the top of the post is just under 215cm from the floor my cunning plan was to do away with the monstousity above and replace it's function with the ceiling.

First I had to re-route the hose to the side sprays. I acheived this by drilling a hole in the middle of the bottom post mount.

Then another behind the shower unit so that I could route the hose down, under and up again. Luckily it was just long enough so I didn't have to extend it.

My first attempt was to screw the top post mount directly to the ceiling and attempt to jack the adjustable feet up to fit the post into it. I found that I was at the end of the thread on the feet so I needed to lower the mount. Which I did as shown below, to make, what Mrs VL reckons is a Dorian pillar....

This worked a treat and I managed to get the bath adjusted level, made a bracket to fix it to the wall and seal between the unit and the wall with some silicon.

The final part of the equation was the solution for the main shower head, a bit of chrome pipe and a couple of elbows and le-voila, job done!

The wooden bit will get a coat of white gloss when as soon as I paint something white in the baby room!

Bathroom Mods Part 2 - Retreival.

Apologies to those of you who have been hanging on the edge of your seats waiting for a bathroom update (and I'm sure there are many.....). Loading up pictures to blogger decided to be tempermental on Sunday and Monday evening. Finally, here is the next installment, hopefully shortly followed by the next (and the one after that).

Thursday evening last week I went to start the dismantling process. I had chosen to do this myself as the ladies husband was out on an oil platform and wasn't going to be home to do the job himself before the middle of this week. I didn't mind the extra work, working on the principle that it would be much easier to put together again if I had dismanlted it myself. As an added bonus I got the hoses to connect it to the water supply thrown in for my trouble.

I had taken the Volvo for the occasion and with the back seats down managed to transport the bath unit and all bits and pieces excluding the shower part and the bath surround.

One of the neighbour's sons kindly helped me to get the bath part up the stairs, here it is in the bathroom (Standing on end for cleaning purposes).



Most of the other bits and bobs.



I picked up the shower unit and bath panel on Friday evening and also purchased the few fittings I needed to complete the installation.



By the end of Friday evening, after a quick floor scrub, the two main parts were sealed and bolted together. All ready for connection to water, preliminary testing and installation on saturday.

Baby Room Part 3/Bathroom Mods Part 1 - New Shower/Bubble Bath

You may well ask, why does fixing up the baby room involve installing a new shower in the bathroom. Well, I've said it before, that one project leads to another, and I'll say it again.

On removing the panelling on the wall that is between the baby room and the bathroom we found out that our bathroom, which is supposed to be a wet room, is not 100% watertight. There's a small but all the same significant leak somewhere in the corner of the shower area. Wet rooms are suppose to have a waterproof membrane behind any walls/tiles, needless to say, this is nowhere to be seen.

After unsucessful attemts with some silicon sealant we decided the only 100% safe solution was to install a shower cabinet. The cheapest shower cabinets available are seam to be around 4000,- Kroner, a lot of money for a quick fix which will be thrown out in a few years when we re-do the bathroom properly!

Today, this appeared on Finn.no, Norways internet market place. It's the full pack, Bubble bath with 7 nozzles, back massage and seperate foot massage facility. Integrated shower with handheld shower head,shower head in the roof and 3 side nozzles. 3 years old. New Pris 21,000,- Kr.

You may well ask, why on earth I knowingly have purchased a bath/shower unit that's 225cms high when the bathrooms only 215cms to the ceiling. As ever, "I HAVE A CUNNING PLAN"