So it begins...

The wet room in my flat needed some pretty serious attention. The once pristine white tiles had become yellowish and grotty, the drain had an aromatic hairy slime under the cover, and the wooden tiled box that concealed the plumbing had rotted and collapsed, revealing a  pretty healthy plant root system coming through my walls.  It was unusable.

The photo really doesn't show the extent of the grime. On the bottom right you can just about see the bin bags and duct tape over the collapsed wooden box, which probably created a nice humid bio-dome type environment for the invading plant life to flourish.

The ceiling was Artex covered plasterboard nailed onto wooden battens, in a once-white-now-yellow emlusion paint. A pane of frosted paisley glass rested in a framed hole with a standard ceiling rose behind it.  You can see one of the small speakers I had previously installed, which had cables running through the wall to a phono socket in the hallway outside.

I had fitted the shower myself a few years before, and just hung on some screws in the wall.  The 22mm pipes came out of the wall and into flexi-pipe compression fittings, into the shower.

Lastly, the chrome towel rail, standard 15mm copper pipes go round the room and through to the bedroom to the left, with two T-junctions going through the the bathroom next door, to the right

So, it's time to refurbish.....what to do what to do....