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Needing a new bathroom suite

TheCatWoman

Mum and I have decided to renovate our shower room and toilet, you'd think this would be easy, we've picked the tiles for the shower enclosure, new flooring now for the basin and toilet, what a faff! I'm just about getting my head around everything being in millimetres instead of the centimetres I measured, I can just about convert cm's to mm's, but the thing thats causing the most problems is the toilet, most of them celebrate being low, my knees aren't getting any younger and I don't want to feel that I've accidently wandered into a childrens bathroom and have my knees up round my ears! And the cistern/flush too, they're all tiny, we have one upstairs and it's useless it's supposed to save water but you need to flush it twice to make everything go away.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Parents

  • Radiators are boring! You've got this big lump sat iin a room being quite dominant and they're so horrible to look at.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    It's nice of you can get one of the tall slimmer ones you can hang towels on. Though that depends on your room layout!

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    I've seen the tall slim towel radiators, but I'm told they don't give out a lot of heat? But radiators in general are boring to look at and so dominant in a room, I have seen some that are a bit nicer, but they really cost a lot of money and again I wonder if they're more style over substance?

    I have found a slightly higher toilet on ebay, now I just need to sort out some false walls in the bathroom, I will drill a hole through and stick an endoscope through and see it it actually needs to be there and if it dosen't take it down.

    I also need to decide whats going on the walls that won't be tiled, tongue and groove panelling up to dado rail height and paint of paper above, only tongue and groove looks nice I can see it being difficult to keep clean and being a trap for all sorts of garmsy stuff?

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  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    I've seen the tall slim towel radiators, but I'm told they don't give out a lot of heat? But radiators in general are boring to look at and so dominant in a room, I have seen some that are a bit nicer, but they really cost a lot of money and again I wonder if they're more style over substance?

    I have found a slightly higher toilet on ebay, now I just need to sort out some false walls in the bathroom, I will drill a hole through and stick an endoscope through and see it it actually needs to be there and if it dosen't take it down.

    I also need to decide whats going on the walls that won't be tiled, tongue and groove panelling up to dado rail height and paint of paper above, only tongue and groove looks nice I can see it being difficult to keep clean and being a trap for all sorts of garmsy stuff?

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    For the radiator heat, I suppose it depends on the size of your bathroom? We have a few of varying sizes and I think they are fine, and it's nice to have warm towels.  

    False walls are annoying, they could be pointless or could be hiding some pipes (hopefully not skeletons!). Endoscope meathod sounds a great idea to peak in!

    We just had the showers replaced, and we got rid of tiles and just have shower panels. Mainly as it's easier to just give them a quick spray and wipe them down once a week with a squeegee and cloth, I actually used to find tiles harder to keep clean, so I think it's down to preference! Outside the shower it's been left as it was tiled.