Advice About Bathroom Installation
02/04/2015 20:59
Advice About Bathroom Installation
The expense of an installation will differ depending on your requirements. For example, relocating the position of a bath or a toilet is likely to increase costs. Significant alterations to soil pipes and hot and cold pipework will lead to more labour being required and possibly the relocation of services and/or the use of additional equipment such as foul water pumps.
Increased volumes of waste produced from the removal of your old bathroom is likely to increase costs. Businesses must pay to discard waste, you may spare cash by offering to dispose of the waste yourself to public waste sites.
If existing plumbing systems are old, or changes in the system are required to accommodate different applications such as power showers, costs are likely to increase.
The styles and weights of the tiles (if used) will not only have direct costs but could increase installation costs as more expensive mounting solutions may be required.
Bathrooms that are not close to existing soil stacks or below ground level often will require extensive work to ensure that waste water can flow to the drain.
Companies that employ varying subcontractors to install different aspects of bathroom are more likely to provide defective work as multiple trades working over one another and/or starting work at different stages of the construction often leads to mistakes. A bathroom needs to be overseen by at least one person who is well versed with bathroom installation and who are actively involved in both the design and installation if multiple contractors are going to be used.
Always have a detailed plan with drawings, failure to do this is likely to lead to mistakes.
Plasterboard needs to be used with care, it is not a one stop solution for everything! Cement boards and other similar products are ideal for bathrooms.
If you are not good at visualising and end product before it is created best to have three dimensional designs created so you can see how your bathroom will look. Bathroom components are often permanently fitted and changing things after they have been fitted can be expensive.
Picking an accomplished installer like Bathroom Installer Gloucester will ensure that costs do not escalte due to unforseen events and that the bathroom is installed efficiently