A day in the life...

[Bonecollector]

I fucking love those baths with tiling around the edge, you can really spread the fuck out in those fuckers.

Good effort, the hat stayed on!

How are the dogs finding the heat Mendy?

[david44]

Cease and desist

As suggested re-tile , have relaxing cool baths

Install privacy curtain, though we use teakdoors for some reason,,

Superloo, Widescreen cast from laptop,optic for you , Leo Fridge/wine cooler I bought a lovely wooden one like Spanish bar for under1000 thai clams
Crack open the badedas, and Hoegarden and hole whirl improves, in fact a whilpool,enema jap eye twizzler for completely hoppy unding,
Only remaing quandry as you laze like me over the leaf filled pool from my lovely cool bath is

Wat Tyler?

[baldrick]

A bathtub was.is the plans for the upstairs ensuite and I just told them no and now I just have a large area for showering

I would have just left the bath ledges there as shelves and only taken out one wall

[Edmond]

Yeah, would have left the wall/ledge on the back and the right. Removed the front wall, removed the tub, put in a brick high dam barrier across where the front wall was and then get the glass door boys to come and fit a wall to wall glass front.


The dogs like the pool in this hot weather. You gonna dig a hole in the garden, stick the tub in it, then fill it with water for the dogs to chill in, or fill it full of ice and bottle of Leo/Yaa Dong?

[Edmond]

You gonna dig a hole in the garden, stick the tub in it, then fill it with water for the dogs to chill in, or fill it full of ice and bottle of Leo/Yaa Dong?

Or.... you gonna be a fly muthafokah cruising past PJG's place every morn?






She'd. Be. Dripping.

[Mendip]

^ There's a thought!

It's a fvcking ballache of a job.

That's my experience as well. One tile may break perfectly and the following five break diagonally or anyway else apart from where you want them to. I'd get the job done eventually but certainly wouldn't enjoy it. I'm already looking at using someone.

just do a good job of the waterproofing and use a non-slip tile on the shower floor.

I have left over non-slip tiles that will match the rest of the bathroom, and the others in the house.

I remember one time many years ago when I returned to Korat after a work trip to find the idiot builders starting to tile around the pool... with smooth slippy tiles. I mean, around a swimming pool, FFS. It wasn't in the plans and I think they just had some tiles left over and were hoping I wouldn't notice.

Apparently I broke a few taboos the way I spoke to the builder that day.

This is why I would not be good parent material. I would have let dear daughter use the existing shower that is plumbed in to the back of the bath taps and hanging over the bath. I might have stretched to adding a shower curtain for female teenage propriety.

One of my student rentals has 4 bathrooms.

I briefly considered just adding a pole and shower curtain but after my recent trip to Aberdeen Peterhead, after only six days I was so sick of clambering in and out of baths to take a shower... and it's an accident waiting to happen after a few tins of Tennents.

I just want a simple walk in shower. Safety first.

I didn't realise you rent students as well?

Top stuff Mendo. Love a bit o' renovation.

Does your place have subsidence issues?

A ruler and pencil can mark out say 50mm going across that crack, note 50mm and the month and year next to it, then can go back to measure to see if it's grown in later years.

We have 9 metre piles under the foundation blocks, so no subsidence issues fortunately. There are a few superficial settlement cracks but nothing much after 17 years since the build. There is plenty wrong with this house... poor design, wrong province, but at least it's strong... although in dire need of decoration at the moment, as you have well noted.

I worked in geotech for a while and one trick we used to see if settlement was ongoing was to superglue a glass slide (the type you use with a microscope) across a crack. If the settlement was ongoing the glass would soon shatter.

I would have just left the bath ledges there as shelves and only taken out one wall

Yeah, would have left the wall/ledge on the back and the right. Removed the front wall, removed the tub, put in a brick high dam barrier across where the front wall was and then get the glass door boys to come and fit a wall to wall glass front.

I considered leaving on the low walls around the bath as shelves, until finding how poorly they had been constructed. Also, the surface was left un-rendered so that would have been an extra job. Also, the brickwork wasn't bonded to the room walls and I think that in the future there would have been leakage issues with a constantly used shower. That bath had only been used a handful of times so no potential problems had ever become apparent.

All said and done, I just want a simple walk in/walk out shower. Nothing fancy, no shelves, no shower curtains and definitely no glass doors!

Which is why I was doing this at 8am this morning...



And yes, I scuffed my knuckles several times while removing the concrete shelf from behind the bath.



Once the concrete had been removed it was time to try and get the damn bath out, but of course it wouldn't budge due to the plumbing.



Underneath the bath there was one final concrete barrier before access to the drainage pipe could be had. I guess this barrier was to help keep the sand in place that supported the weight of the bath, and occupant (s).



A lump hammer and more scuffed knuckles took care of that.



I decided on sawing through the blue pvc pipe... a job best suited to the gardener's smaller frame.

Meanwhile I took the wheel barrow to dump rubble at the end of our road up by PJG's place, to fill in some potholes.



I guess, as a good neighbour I should have offered to fill a couple of PJG's holes as well?

On my return the gardener had done a sterling job.

I now have one fully Western sized bath looking for a home, or as they're called in the trade, a double Edmond.



And this is why the brick 'shelving' had to go. It was poor quality work and loose sand filled the void between the two skins of bricks. Spare tiles had been placed against the wall, in between the wall and brickwork, so there was no bonding to the walls at all. I think better to just get rid?



It would have been a bit narrow as well with the brickwork left in place.



So anyway, an hour later and job done. The outer bit of remaining wall will be built up to just below the window and the top of that wall will make a great shelf!

By this point you could hardly see across the room for all the dust... like Chiang Mai on a clear day.



It's gonna look OK I reckon, just hope I can find some matching tiles. The taps and soap dish will be perfect for any short visitors as well!



So, if anyone wants a bath it is free if collected. I'll even throw in the wife and Yogi.

Actually forget that, what a terrible thing to say.

Just the wife, I'll hang on to Yogi!

Unless of course my other plan works out. Anna could be in for a treat this weekend once her stitches have been removed!

[Edmond]

Reckon that could be used for brewing up songkran's batch of yaa dong.


Chugging hose connected to the drain and yer sor'id guv.

[Edmond]

To stay on the plumbing and DIY trend, plus I couldn't be arsed finding Chairman Mao's fantastic optical illusions thread, this got me this afternoon.

Currently renovating a townhouse and doing the plumbing tomorrow.



Oh, I thought I bought two of the same length.





Oh. Okay, I did.


Mind. Blown.

[helge]

So, if anyone wants a bath it is free if collected.

A mast, one of these


And a bottle of Ya Dong for the Christening and Victory 2 is ready for launch.


Safe journey and all

[taxexile]

some pics not loading, but make sure you cover that exposed bath drain pipe. builders never do.

if rubble gets into it and blocks it your new bath will take forever to empty.

[BLD]

That's a hell of a task you've taken on mendy and it's sure to morph into an endless headfuck I done the same when we moved back to Oz similar sized room.same style, bathtub. This was considered outdated and a shower was suggested . And sure enough one we beat the hell out of those bricks and got the bathtub out. We discovered nothing but builders rubble. Doubling the size of the job . Anyway after lots of money and profanity and about 2 weeks we ended up with a shower and not a bathtub. In hindsight I should of just hired someone. We showered in the backyard while all this was going on. Sheesh

[Topper]

We showered in the backyard while all this was going on.

I thought that was normal in Oz.

[Mendip]

^ All apart from the showering bit!

A mast, one of these


Safe journey and all

What I would give for a hat like that, although no chance of balancing that on Anna's head!

The boredom is such that I'm already considering launching the bath over Songkran. Why not, the wife's away, we can have some fun, although to be fair the daughter no longer seems to enjoy these adventures. Why do they have to grow up?

But the bath can't be worse than that piece of orange shit I tried to row across the pond.

some pics not loading, but make sure you cover that exposed bath drain pipe. builders never do.

if rubble gets into it and blocks it your new bath will take forever to empty.

One of the pics shows a piece of rag firmly rammed in to the open drainage pipe. Thanks Tax... this I learnt a long time ago but a timely reminder.

That's a hell of a task you've taken on mendy and it's sure to morph into an endless headfuck

My entire life is a headfuck right now mate, but I find to take on new, low level headfucks helps me to forget about the big headfucks.

It's all about headfuck management.

[DrWilly]

Turn the bath into a herbs planter box.

[helge]

The boredom is such that I'm already considering launching the bath over Songkran.

Do go Filipino, please

Or some kind of Multihull

[david44]

In memory of TD I think you should call the finished prpject

Total Shower..or
Utter Shower

Stick Lulus wheels on the ole tub the Mrs will peddle it to C Mai , a cool smoke free floozy in jacuzzu uzzly reflects synchronicity.

On day Fairport Drummer Gerry Conway has died aged 76

remember you are the one with a great al bum to accompany your refit..

Here's my favorite track off of

UNHALFBRICKING!



Eric Hayes took the photo on the sleeve design for the UK release, which featured neither album title nor band name. The photo captured Denny's parents, Neil and Edna Denny, standing outside the family home at 9B Arthur Road, Wimbledon, South London, with the band distantly visible through the garden fence.

If I send some real dirty woman can you stream a champagne launch of the apparatus?

[Looper]

That's a hell of a task you've taken on mendy and it's sure to morph into an endless headfuck

Kudos to El Mendo - devoted dad of teh year!

I didn't realise you rent students as well?

There are no students in the student rentals now, and not because they are in shallow graves or refigerators as Reg Dingle would have you believe!

The students got swept away on a tide of covid so the furnished student rentals are now unfurnished family rentals and I have a shed full of furniture.

[moose65]

Use the tub for doggie washes.

video evidence of you washing Yogi would be appreciated as it would be an interesting fight.

100 baht on Yogi to win !

[Mendip]

^ The last of the big spenders...

I'm on it, but I've lost the plug....

Just a quick update on the shower project...

This was the status tonight... yes, nothing has changed for a couple of days other than the air has cleared... so I'm in front of those poor buggers living up in Chiang Mai!



With the wife apparently wanting to break some record for funeral attendance I lost my conduit to the tiler, but the gardener re-established contact yesterday and said tiler arrived at 07:30hrs today... yes, on a Sunday.

To be honest, I was up around 05:30hrs anyway, and his early visit was a bonus to me. The dogs liked 'Oiy' as well, so although he doesn't know it yet, he's got the job. I'm just waiting for his price, but it 40 degrees, I absolutely hate tiling... and the dogs liked him. I reckon about 3 to 4 days work and I'd prefer to pay all materials and pay the pay by the day, but like I said... it's 40 degrees, I've had enough and the daughter is on holiday after Tuesday, so he's got the job whatever his strategy is! I trust the gardener on this as well.

While he was here, I gave 'Oiy' a little tempter as well... if the job goes OK...

I have long been pissed off about this vacant room in the house... the 'Buddha' room. It's never used, the wife only remembers about Buddhism when there's a funeral to get pissed up at, and I hate to have a complete waste of space in the house (and I'm talking about the room). I have a plan, and this morning a stored wardrobe went down to the workshop, a stored office chair went to a gardener's mate, etc etc.

And we are left with this.



Next door is the daughter's bedroom... that wall divides the two rooms.



There's the two rooms, Lola is just entering the never-used Buddha room, the daughter was behind the closed door to the right, with aircon on (the bugger), doing her guitar practice.

So, what's the obvious thing to do? Yes, remove the wall and make that one big room.

When's the obvious time to remove it? While the wife's away... I just know if I 'discuss' this with her, there will be a myriad of reasons why you can't mess with Buddha rooms... you need an odd number of rooms in the house, or an even number, you have to wait until the moons align, etc etc.

So, I'm thinking of knocking the fucker down while she's away at Songkran!

What's she gonna do? Rebuild it?

That's the offending wall between those two structural pillars... a couple of days work to remove it... it's only a single skin of bricks. I reckon two days to do it carefully to avoid broken floor tiles, etc. Otherwise only a day, easy.



So that's 'Oiy's' little tempter. While he's sorting out the shower, I'll knock down the wall and then he can sort out the floor tiles, sort out the hanging ceiling, brick up one of the doors and plaster over. And the job's a good'un. The wife'll still be glugging Lao Khao, shooting water pistols and causing arguments in deepest Isaan!

And then the daughter's 'study' area can be relocated upstairs, away from the constantly blaring tv.

Everybody happy!

[malmomike77]

^ You'll lose 4 inches of room height once he's re-leveled the floor with 2 tonnes on mortar. You'd best get along to the local Wat to ask which auspicious day to move Buddha and have his new room blessed

[Topper]

Why not just move your daughter's "office" upstairs to the Buddha room with the wall intact? Let it be her hang out space. Put up a TV that she can hook to her computer and it's her entertainment area. Saves money, uses the room and it can be your office when she goes to uni.

[Edmond]

Good man Mendo, we have a very similar situation.

Both adjoining rooms are the same size, the kid's room and we gave The Rabbit full rein of the other.

All the gym equipment etc went into one of the extra rooms, for that one I was thinking maybe a home music studio, a giant Lego city room, but the rabbit found it pretty quickly and seems happy in there, while largely forgotten about by everyone else.

The renovator recommend knocking out a big archway in half of the wall instead of the smashing down the whole thing to make one giant room. So it's still half separated, with an archway between them.

Will be interesting to see how it goes.

Tell homeboy there's a week in Phuket for him if he doesn't leg it with yer money.

[Topper]

Also, if you open up the room, are you going to have to resize the A/C?

[Mendip]

^ You'll lose 4 inches

Not boasting, but I can afford to.

Why not just move your daughter's "office" upstairs to the Buddha room with the wall intact? Let it be her hang out space. Put up a TV that she can hook to her computer and it's her entertainment area. Saves money, uses the room and it can be your office when she goes to uni.

That was the original plan, but this time of year the room would be unusable. Small window but with ceiling fan, but way too hot and airless to use. This would cost very little money, I have left over floor tiles but not sure how the ceiling would be patched up. I also have blue paint left over from painting the daughter's room. I would think a day's work for 'Oiy'.

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Both adjoining rooms are the same size, the kid's room and we gave The Rabbit full rein of the other.

This would add about 30% to the size of the daughter's room... a huge difference to her for a day or so's work. And unused space as well.

I don't believe the wife has a Rabbit, she's never really needed one to be honest, but I'll check her bedside drawer later.

Also, if you open up the room, are you going to have to resize the A/C?

Bollocks to that mate. I ventured in at 10:30hrs this morning to wake the bugger up for breakfast and the temperature must have been set to 16 degrees. She's on the verge of a complete aircon ban right now.

[Edmond]

This would add about 30% to the size of the daughter's room... a huge difference to her for a day or so's work. And unused space as well.

Good man. Why not.

I'm thinking of giving the archway idea a go now. Not that I have any idea of how to create an archway, of course, but it can't be that difficult.