Hi

I have a 1980s house with original bathroom that is beginning to show
its age and it is about time that it was modernised. If it had been a
white suite I would consider retiling and alike but a champagne corner
bath is not nice. I think the main reason that it is a corner bath is
that the room measure 1600mm x 3000mm with various windows and stacks
in the way so only one wall would take a normal bath.

Looking for ideas of what to do.

Loz

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I have a 1980s house with original bathroom that is beginning to show
its age and it is about time that it was modernised. If it had been a
white suite I would consider retiling and alike but a champagne corner
bath is not nice. I think the main reason that it is a corner bath is
that the room measure 1600mm x 3000mm with various windows and stacks
in the way so only one wall would take a normal bath.

Looking for ideas of what to do.

Well, put the bath there, then.

wrote:
Hi

I have a 1980s house with original bathroom that is beginning to show
its age and it is about time that it was modernised. If it had been a
white suite I would consider retiling and alike but a champagne corner
bath is not nice. I think the main reason that it is a corner bath is
that the room measure 1600mm x 3000mm with various windows and stacks
in the way so only one wall would take a normal bath.

put a normal bath on that wall ?

Looking for ideas of what to do.

Loz

go round a few places like B&Q, wickes, etc. go in early in the week
with some basic measurements, don't make them too detailed.

pretend you really don't know what you're doing and you're really not
sure what you want. intimate that you would like the full monty and
would like to pay by credit ( £ kerching £ )

get the assistant to design you a full on bathroom either on a PC or
however they do it these days (I did this some time ago, now I DIY)

if you can get, convincingly, to the point where they think you will sign
on the dotted line they will send round a site surveyor. behave like an
innocent, play them like the fools that they are and you /might/ end up
with a plan, a 3D layout, a full schedule of works /and/ a price list.

DON'T SIGN ANYTHING !

repeat until you have what you want in the way of paperwork and designs.

source the bits from sheds, independents and online. take the 3D plans and
whatever useful you got from B&Q, Wickes etc. to an independent installer,
if you /really/ can't DIY ;-)

agree on references, go see them, pay in stages, demand a 15% snagging
final payment scheme whereby, if they don't do the job to your satisfaction,
you hold back the last 15%. split any independent snagging checks with
the installer.

HtH

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Hi

I have a 1980s house with original bathroom that is beginning to show
its age and it is about time that it was modernised. If it had been a
white suite I would consider retiling and alike but a champagne corner
bath is not nice. I think the main reason that it is a corner bath is
that the room measure 1600mm x 3000mm with various windows and stacks
in the way so only one wall would take a normal bath.

Looking for ideas of what to do.

If you get hold of catalogues from the various sanitary ware makers at
least some of them have little printed bits of their stuff you can cut
out and play around with on a plan.

A good thing we came up with when we redid our old bathroom was to put
the hand basin across a corner. We used one of those ones that sit on a
counter top and jut out (forgot the name) and built a shallow fitted
cupboard on the two walls and across the corner (which also hid the
piping, and the toilet cistern). The basin could have just gone flat on
the wall, but it made for a nicer arrangement like this, as well as
giving some useful cupboard space.

you can see a piccie he

http://chrisfrench.org/temp/bathroom.jpg

We used a corner offset bath as it meant it gave us more space for
things like a separate shower enclosure, but we aren't great bathers,
mostly showers, the bath is used mostly for the kids. If i liked a good
soak in the bath more often I'd want a 'proper' bath
--
Chris French

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writes
Hi

I have a 1980s house with original bathroom that is beginning to show
its age and it is about time that it was modernised. If it had been a
white suite I would consider retiling and alike but a champagne corner
bath is not nice. I think the main reason that it is a corner bath is
that the room measure 1600mm x 3000mm with various windows and stacks
in the way so only one wall would take a normal bath.

Looking for ideas of what to do.

If you get hold of catalogues from the various sanitary ware makers at
least some of them have little printed bits of their stuff you can cut
out and play around with on a plan.

For the design bit there are some web-based tools like:

http://www.bathroom-design-guide.com/bathroom-planner/

G.