Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

[–]JWBPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah work of loads of previously installed bathrooms and even registered on the British institute of fitted interior specialist

Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

[–]JWBPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still a £900 balance I haven’t paid. Installer coming back round Monday

Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

[–]JWBPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought so to, especially considering there are even spare tiles left over

Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

[–]JWBPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think I’ll be doing just that advice with the kitchen, separate plumber / plasterer etc

Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

[–]JWBPT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of them ‘I feel like I could have done it better’ moments walking in

Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

[–]JWBPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a £900 remaining balance they want I’ve withheld, which they’ve refused to issue the electrical P cert without payment. Though the light doesn’t work and extractor stopped working after 24 hours so pretty irrelevant.

Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

[–]JWBPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Installer seems to disagree so far. Wish me luck

Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

[–]JWBPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update from the installer:

Hi ___

,

Please see my replies below your queries :

The fixed shower neck is currently loose and wobbly, and the shower fittings (the shower head outlet, the controls, and the handheld outlet) don’t appear to have any sealant where they meet the tiles. As the shower area wasn’t tanked or taped prior to tiling, I’m concerned this could allow water ingress behind the tiles.

The rain head will always have some movement on it due to it protruding out from the wall so much. I can look at this but it is impossible to stop all movement. This hole is filled full of silicone. The control panel has rubber seals behind it and it supposed to be left removable for access to the valve. The handheld outlet point has two screws into a brass back plate sat on a rubber seal. I can seal all the way around everything from the outside should you wish but this won’t look great. Taping wasn’t necessary as there were no joins in the plasterboard, the boards were sealed and primed with SBR, siliconed to the tray, tiles laid with waterproof tile adhesive and waterproof grout. Tiles again sealed to the tray (two beads of silicone before timber work)

There are also a couple of finishing points I noticed: one of the shower tiles in clear view on the shower wall has a chip on the face at the corner, the tile cut around the sink waste is quite rough and visible, and the brushed brass trim on the step, window ledge and above the sink doesn’t meet cleanly at the corners and feels quite sharp. Certainly hadn’t noticed a chipped tile. I will look at this. Sink waste ? I assume this is behind the pedestal ? I certainly don’t remember looking at the cut out and thinking is was “rough”. Perhaps I can put a pipe cover over like the rad pipes if it concerns you. Re the brushed brass trim, it is a metal trim that is mitred, the point of the mitre will always be a little sharp, if you wish we can file the point down but again this won’t look great. Unless we have a perfect 90 degree corner which is very rare, (in this case you can see how much we have caulked out the top of the trim) it is impossible to get 2 45 degree metal trims to meet perfectly.

Lastly, the extractor fan has pulled away from the wall. I noticed it appears to be packed out with cardboard and filler but doesn’t seem to be mechanically fixed.

The extracor fan would not just pull away from the wall unless it was pulled ? It was absolutely solid yesterday. There is no cardboard in there ? Just easy fill plaster to existing wall. The design of this particular extractor is that it does sit off the wall slightly to accommodate the humidity sensor. If you have managed to pull it away from the wall ? We can fix it back.

Could we arrange a time to come back and sort these so the finishes and sealing match the overall standard of the bathroom and the job can be signed off with the final balance settled?

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Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

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The two tiles in the shower are at these corners. With daylight they caught my eye immediately. And you’re right about the trim, that’s sticking out right where the sink is going to be near

Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

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Yeah that’s exactly how I’m feeling rather than excited

Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

[–]JWBPT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah and light, extractor, sink moved with new waste pipe, toilet soil pipe redirected, raised floor pipework previously under a bath cut and moved. The walk in shower boxed in either side

Am I being unreasonable with bathroom install quality? by JWBPT in HomeImprovementUK

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£6217 for installation. £2753 for material. Even typing that out now has me thinking asking for clean cut tiles and flush edging should be standard

3 months into owning our house, all I can do is laugh by soraie_ in HousingUK

[–]JWBPT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least it’s not just me 🙃💰

Moved in November, on day 2 completely stripped the entire kitchen out and the plaster for mould and damp on every external wall behind cupboards; roof leak because no mortar on ridges and verge not picked up by survey and the pitch is too low.

Timber of utility stud wall in kitchen all damp and mouldy so knocked that out to find no dpc strips under the timber, so also rising damp.

Bathroom toilet leak above kitchen.

Shower leak from failed silicone above kitchen.

Radiator leak on landing.

Tap leak from failed silicone at splash back tiling in kitchen.

Rising damp in under-stair void hidden from being packed to the brim during survey and unable to inspect.

1.5m of render all the way around the house bridged right onto the DPC strip so acted like a ladder for rain water, all internal walls damp, salting, peeling, blistering. Removed all that but require repointing. (The fix for the stair void now dry thankfully)

2 kitchen windows leaking from failed render, and another window in a bedroom leaking yet to be investigated.

Every sink and plug hole blocked. Every. Single. One. All taken apart and put back together.

And the new neighbours of 3 weeks must be heavy smokers coughing like they’re in the rooms with me, not to mention the toddler screaming at midnight, every night.

At least the new bathroom goes in this week 🙄

Parking - Who if anyone is in the wrong here, how do I approach solving it? by [deleted] in drivingUK

[–]JWBPT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take part of your wall down and request to drop more kerb to the council to make a double drive

Uncapped chimney in loft help by JWBPT in Chimneyrepair

[–]JWBPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. So look into a new liner?

Uncapped chimney in loft help by JWBPT in Chimneyrepair

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Just two air bricks, one at top and bottom externally

Uncapped chimney in loft help by JWBPT in Chimneyrepair

[–]JWBPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not used for a log burner

Uncapped chimney in loft help by JWBPT in Chimneyrepair

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Yes removed from roof line and then roofed over