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Date: June 2008
Description: The remit was to swap the bathroom built on an outside wall to a larger room next door with no outside walls or windows and add a seperate shower . The windowless room was created when an extension was added to the rear of the house years earlier and was being used as a storage room. All other appliances were to be reused and of course all pipe work was to be extended with new. The largest issue here was the fall required for the length of waste pipe for the toilet. We did have to lower a section of ceiling in a downstairs utility room to get it installed correctly. All outside waste pipes were replaced and previous poor workmanship repaired at the same time (see cowboy award).
Due to the bathroom wall being installed to an inner room with no outside windows we had to add a ventilation system. We chose an automatic unit and wired it up in the loft. There older (MCB but no RCD) consumer unit meant we had to also add RCD protection to the lighting and fan. Once all of the mechanical work was completed we moved back into the old bathroom to remove all of the redundant now pipe work and wastes ready for a new floor and life as bedroom.
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