Hello again to all you DIY blog readers out there. You may recall my post a few weeks ago explaining how I had been in a bit of bother attempting some DIY plumbing in the bathroom of my home when fitting some new parts. Well, following on from this embarrassing disaster I feel it is essential to remind you all that as much as I love to do work on my home myself – I would say to you all please steer clear in the bathroom and leave it to the professionals! If you need great deals on bathroom suites this Autumn then before you rush off to the local bathrooms superstore why not save time, effort and money by shopping for the best deals on online. Also, while you are securing yourself a new bargain bathroom – I highly advise you to let the pros fit it as well – unless you want to end up in a rather wet mess! 
Filed under: Bathrooms, Home Improvement | Tags: bath plugs, bath wastes, Bathroom, Bathrooms, showers, toilets
Here is some simple but essential home improvement information to help you out in your bathroom. Using the correct waste valves depending on the design of your bathroom is very key to ensure that water is held correctly in your bathroom shower, sink and toilet. In your shower basins, using the correct shower wastes is particularly important if you have a high powered shower unit in order to ensure that the high volumes of water are managed correctly. When concerned with your sink basin, basin wastes such as sprung or clicker wastes hold the key to success in holding the water in (if your sink has an overflow it is advisable to utilise a slotted waste design). When concerned with your bath, the days of the old fashioned plug and chain are numbered – the pop up waste or push button bath wastes are the designs for you! Always check to ensure you have the right design for your bathroom furniture to avoid any potential wet mishaps!
Good morning once again to all readers of the UK Homes DIY blog. I write this morning feeling slightly less confident with my own DIY skills after making a horrible mess of one of those tricky little tasks in my bathroom. I think it’s fair to say that plumbing is clearly not my areas of expertise! Luckily, being such an internet boffin I have found out some good professional guys online who can come in and sort out all my (mostly self made) plumbing problems. The guys came out rapidly and stopped a near disaster of water getting everywhere in the bathroom and seeping through the ceiling into the house below! I can also happily say that they were very reasonable to not charge a call out fee either. I think it’s fair to say that as much as I like to try and do all the work around my house myself and keep up my thrifty DIY attitude as much as possible – but plumbing certainly isn’t my strong point! Guess I’ll be leaving it to the professionals in future!
Filed under: Bathrooms | Tags: Bathroom, Bathrooms, sink, small bathrooms, toilet
Here is a handy hint for all of you wonderful DIY loving people out there who just like myself, suffer from the frustrating problem of having very small or limited amounts of space available in your bathroom or downstairs toilets. Well as always, never fear – as I have recently discovered that there are several items of bathroom upholstery and furnishings readily available on the market today to help counteract these annoying yet inevitable little problems. For example, installing corner basins can help you use the small amount of area you have available in the bathroom much more efficiently. Indeed, we have had one professionally fitted in our downstairs toilet earlier this year. Other simple ideas you could opt for are the installation of back-to-wall toilets – again a very simple sounding but effective method of addressing what can potentially prove to be a tricky home improvement problem. So there you have it! As is often the case with any small room in the house, the key to success is maximising the use of any space you have available.
Filed under: Bathrooms, Home Improvement | Tags: bathroom tips, Bathrooms, cleaning, showers
Here’s a few more home improvement tips for your bathroom suites that I’ve been trying out recently. They rally are straightforward to use and can save you time and effort while cleaning (because nobody likes to scrub!) Please let me know your experiences with these and offer any other helpful DIY advice you know as I’m always looking for new tips to publish on this blog! For example, a good way to prevent damp accumulating in all bathrooms is wiping down and drying all the surfaces and shower curtain – indeed anywhere that gets wet when you bathe or shower – straight after you finish. This simple but quick tip can save you hours of scrubbing horrible damp and mould later on in the month. Also please make sure that your bathroom has good ventilation – I cannot emphasise this enough. If your bathroom is in the basement make sure you get extractor fans fitted to allow the steam to escape.
Filed under: Bathrooms, Home Improvement | Tags: Bathrooms, Bathroom, Bathroom Suite, showers, shower enclosures
You may not realise it but it’s now or never for all you blog readers and home improvement nuts! As you may or may not be aware all those great new year sales are all now rapidly drawing to a close – and one of the great home improvement products that always seem to be available at excellent prices at this time of year is the bathroom suite. For this reason its your last chance to grab many of those fantastic bathroom products at reduced sale prices – such as a shower enclosure and shower tray – which as you may have read previously on my diy blog, I have recently purchased in order to keep the water and damp from seeping onto my bathroom floor. So what are you waiting for? Get online and grab yourself a bathroom bargain today before the deals have passed you by!
Filed under: Bathrooms | Tags: Bathrooms, damp, shower enclosures, showers, small bathrooms
The latest developments in my diy blog sees me reporting on further goings on in the bathroom of my home. I have blogged quite frequently on the dificulties I have been enduring in this part of the house and also the problems with damp on the walls. Now, it seems that as water has been leaking through the bathroom floor, some damp has now started to appear on the ground floor of the house as well. Having done a bit of reading and racking my brains, I have found that the best way to avoid this problem and ensure that no water from the shower even reaches the bathroom floor, is to install water tight shower enclosures to your bathroom. This can also be a particularly useful solution for small bathrooms when you don’t have room for a bath to catch the drips from your shower and need to maximise the use of your room space.
Once again the weekend is nearly upon us and I can’t wait to get involved in some more home improvement projects. I’m going to spend my lunchtime today searching around a few DIY, gardening and home improvement websites and blogs across the wide world of the internet in order to find some inspiration for my next venture. I’m particularly looking out for some ideas to do with daybed furniture. Keep checking my blog over the weekend for the latest news from my DIY projects. I think the bathroom may need some more work (and certainly a bit of a clean) so I may find myself back on my hands and knees doing some scrubbing!
New Home, New Bathroom, New Problems!
Having recently moved into a new rented house and with the help of some local house removal men and also having little money of my own to spend, I have naturally begun to be been drawn to the great and wonderful (if not weird) world of DIY and home improvement in a (most likely vain) effort to make the best of my new home and garden. As many of you will know, the first steps in a new home can always be tricky and deciding exactly which jobs I could actually carry out on my shoestring budget and limited DIY experience was always going to be a daunting task.
As it happened, fate inevitably conspired against me, as within 2 weeks of moving into my new house a serious bathroom malfunction occurred, resulting in my shower handle breaking off and water leaking all over my brand new bathroom. Try as I might, the shower would not cease from its seemingly never ending torrent, proceeding to make a terrible mess of what I hoped would remain a rather well maintained laminate bathroom floor. British bathrooms are of course, notoriously difficult to deal with for any DIY lover, especially a complete DIY amateur such as myself, and a bodged job with a monkey wrench was the best quick fix I could do to at least stop my beutiful new bathroom from falling through the ceiling and into the spotless living room below!
Bathroom Knightmares
In the following days I was forced to begin to trawl the apparently neverending mass of UK bathroom websites the great expanse of links that is the internet has to offer – now not only for shower parts but for a suitable polish for my once beautiful and spotless bathroom’s laminate flooring. Luckily I managed to locate the parts I needed and waited patiently for there arrival at my (fast becoming a nightmare) new home. When my new shower parts arrived, I rushed eagerly to the bathroom only to discover my DIY skills were perhaps not as extensive as I had first anticipated. After trying in vain for several hours to fix the bothersome shower, I decided that calling one of the local plumbers may perhaps be a better option in order to save further embarasment and most likely, damage to my new house.
Now most of you would think my exploits in the bathroom may be enough to put me off home improvement for life, but of course I’m far too stupid for that! Check my blog for my future DIY exploits and perhaps laugh at my latest efforts at home improvement! Please feel free to comment on any advice you can offer, and I will be happy to share any DIY tips I find in the coming weeks with you.
