When Good Showers Go Bad . . .

Slight problem with the downstairs shower this weekend.  Noticed water leaking from the casing yesterday, got in touch with our builders but unfortunately their plumber was out of town so there wasn't anything they could do that day.

By this morning it was running, rather than dripping with water - Martin turned the water off at the stopcock and tried to get the leaking valve off, but not luck.

Somehow, in fiddling with it, he must have tightened something though, because when we switched the water back on (at a lower pressure admittedly) he seemed to have stopped the leak.


Waiting for the plumber to come and take a proper look - so using the upstairs shower in the meantime.

Update - 19 March - plumber finally showed up, and fingers crossed it's all fixed!

Shower Room Re-Boot

Last job of the year.  Builders were back at the beginning of the month, and finally left us today with a newly tiled and fitted out downstairs shower room (just in time for Christmas!).
  

 

  Before                                    During  

We've now got a nice new shower cubicle (a bit roomier than the old one) and a new shower:

After

Couple of final jobs planned for 2016 though - so we'll see them again then!

Got There In The End!

We'd always planned to add a shower over the bath in the upstairs bathroom, it just took us a while . . .

Bought tiles * - 3 December 2011

Bought shower - 4 December 2011

Shower electrics / extractor fan fitted - 6 December 2011

Bought more tiles - 31 May 2012

Tiling work done - 19 November 2012

Shower fitted - 7 December 2012

Bought shower screen - 26 December 2012

Shower screen fitted - 9 May 2013


Done!

* The bath area was only tiled up to the patterned border, and we couldn't match the tiles below - ended up buying some cheap white tiles of the same width (then we worked out we were a few short first time round, and  they'd stopped making those tiles too - luckily we managed to find a leftover box!).  Now it's finished it looks good - almost as though  it was planned that way!