Cloakroom and laundry part 1

The bath upstairs has been used, exclusively, for the last month and a half, our washing machine is failing, and we needed something to occupy our idle hands.  Time to convert the old bath.

We already investgated it a bit and decided to keep the toilet and sink but shift the sink to where the head of bath was and to turn the toilet 90° then wall in the resulting cloakroom with a pocket door to save space (we have the bits for this part of the project but it will still be down the road a bit).

The other half of the room is to be a laundry and I started to recover tiles to shift to the bare wall in the cloakroom half that was uncovered by the tub removal.  The tiles were over plaster board which was laid over tiles over more plaster and plasterboard.

The command decision was made to buy back as much space as stripping to bare brick would allow.

It was a metal tub but not as heavy as I expected.

The new supply pipes were sweated in and, later, the waste pipe rerouted to the soil stack.

The mains water cutoff was held by a compression fitting with a rubber o-ring.  This was tenuous at best and, when I attached the new cold supply, the fitting popped right off.  The outside cutoff was under ½ metre of mud so I had to reset the fitting with the full flow rate of South Staffordshire Water system fighting against my efforts.  We put the dehumidifier in the room for the next couple of days after the flood was cleared.

Returning to the walls a couple days later, conductors were strung to the washer and dryer power.  You can see the arch of the original door to the loo from the outside split by the new transition from laundry to shithouse.

Time to tidy up.  The washer and dryer arrive tomorrow.  We’ll get to the decorating when the DIY places start delivering plaster once more (which is in even shorter supply than bog roll, right now).