DIY repair of bathrooms and bathrooms

In detail: do-it-yourself repair of toilets and bathrooms from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.

Hello dear readers! Continuing the theme of repair, I will tell you how to start repairing the bathroom and toilet with your own hands. Surely many repairing these premises are faced with such a question.

If you are the owner of an apartment in which the bathroom is located separately from the toilet, I advise you to start repairs with your own hands at home by working out the same color scheme and style. Even if the rooms are divided, it is one whole. The design is chosen the same or similar in the type of finishing materials used and color.

Toilet and bathroom are kind of twins. I advise you to cover the premises with tiles of the same type, but of a different shade. If you use the same finishing technique, you will end up with dissimilar rooms that will create a different mood. If the walls and floor are made in the same color, but with different finishing materials, discomfort will appear due to the contrast between the rooms.

I think now you understand why it is better to use the same tiles and decor for finishing the bath and toilet. This approach will help you save money. After finishing, there will be scraps, which are most likely to find a place in the second room.

A bathroom is a room in which a person is left alone with thoughts and emotions. Here he takes a shower, relaxes, rests after a hard day, gets rid of irritation and fatigue, gets a boost of energy.

The described effect will only bring a comfortable and comfortable bathroom.

Measure the room ... Take a piece of paper, pencil, tape measure and measure the length and height of the walls, the area of the room. Based on the numbers obtained, calculate the amount of materials that will be required to renovate the bathroom.
Imagine a new bathroom ... Decide on the color and type of finishing materials, the location of the bath, furniture and accessories.
Prepare the room ... Remove old finishes from the walls and ceiling of the bathroom. The work is dusty and dirty, so wear a respirator. You will need a hammer drill, spatula, metal brush and other tools.
Primer the walls ... Route electrical wiring and level the ceiling with putty. At this stage, mark the vertical and horizontal lines using a level or plumb line.
Replacing the water supply ... A responsible step, I do not advise saving on money. We are talking about replacing the plumbing, risers and sewers in the bathroom.
Floor waterproofing ... By making a cement screed, water will not seep to neighbors. Treat the joints between the walls and the floor, the entire area of the bathroom with a special waterproofing solution.
For wall and floor decoration ... Try to lay the tiles in the bathroom yourself. If you don't have the skills, ask a tiler for help. Some, for the sake of economy, do not revet the space behind and under the bathroom. Better to cover the planes, and put the bath on the tiles. The screen will help to hide the side and communications.
Door installation ... If you are going to replace your bathroom door, do so before installing the tiles.
Skirting and ceiling ... At the end, along the perimeter of the ceiling, install a decorative plinth, and paint the ceiling with water-based paint. If this option for finishing the ceiling in the bathroom is not suitable, pay attention to stretch ceilings or structures made of plastic panels. It remains to close the seams.

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Following the instructions, you will reach the final stage. At the end, install the sink, hang the mirror and lamp, install the furniture. The end result is a beautiful room.People find it difficult to renovate a washroom.The toilet is an important part of the home, which I advise you to repair thoroughly and correctly, taking into account all the little things. How to start the painstaking process, I will tell you below.

These are the tiny spaces that are called “not to unfold”. Therefore, we decided to combine a bath with a toilet. We have two advantages at once:

the bathroom becomes more spacious
instead of two doors in the corridor there will be one, which means additional space in the corridor, which is also small.

This is what we have in the bathroom: small tiles on the floor, tiles, metal-plastic pipes, a partition between the bathroom and the toilet - brickwork. We cleaned the walls as much as possible of tiles and a layer of paint. The sink was removed, it must be replaced, but the bath was left, it is cast iron and in good condition.

The ceilings in the apartment are multi-level, a niche is hidden under the plywood, although it was quite possible to make a cabinet. However, now this is irrelevant, we will change the location of the door.

Such a mosaic tile adorned the walls of the toilet, this one cannot be found now.

Branch of risers from the toilet to the bath. The pipes, as we can see, in this old house have been replaced with new ones.

The red brick partition is decorated with a decent layer of plaster - 3-4 cm, we knock down all this "wealth". We will dismantle the wall. This brick is still useful to us.

We diligently knock down this entire thick layer of plaster, remove the fiberboard panel with which the pipes in the toilet were sewn up. We closed the toilet itself so as not to clog it up. As you can see, there is enough dirt!

We work in the old fashioned way, with a wide chisel and a hammer. All this work could have been done with a puncher, but we did not have one. All materials are already old, so plaster and tiles are easily knocked off.

This wall was hidden behind a layer of plaster and tiles.

The most difficult thing was to remove all this "beauty", as we can see, the workers did not regret the mixture.

The walls are uneven - at the ceiling, the thickness of the plaster layer reached as much as 6 cm.

We shoot down everything, we remove the lamp.

This is how the wall opposite to the partition looks like, it is also brick. We knock out the ventilation grill, put a new one in its place.

Now, finally, the most interesting thing - we dismantle the partition between the bathroom and the toilet, the bricks, as I said, we keep, they are in good condition, so why spend money on extra materials. We store whole bricks in the bathroom.

This is what we get in the end, when all the garbage has been removed, the wall and the door frame of the toilet have been knocked out, there will be a wall here.

There will be minor difficulties with the new floor, because there is a decent difference between the bathroom floor and the toilet floor, see how the stool is crooked.

Now this difference must be leveled as much as possible, with a hammer and a chisel we knock down everything unnecessary, remove two layers of tiles in the toilet.

See how much space will be in the bathroom combined with the toilet, there will be space for both the sink and the washing machine.

There is a lot of work with the floor in the toilet: check out which layer you have to remove, almost ten centimeters, to the very foundation.

We are preparing a place for the future wall, there used to be a door here, but there will be a wall, in the toilet in this place it will be possible to place a cabinet or shelves for accessories. An excellent solution for such a small apartment.

We arm ourselves with a trowel and a cement-sand mixture and erect a new wall. Do not forget to use a level so that the wall is even.

View of the new wall from inside the toilet. Simultaneously with laying out the wall itself, we close up the cracks. An old bathroom door frame serves as a wall border. Subsequently, we will break the old box and put a new door.

This is how the work goes: broken bricks are also used, they can be inserted into large cracks, and then covered with a mixture.

Outside view: this is how much space to add in the corridor due to the fact that there will be no door. In a small area, every centimeter of roads.

The lamp was attached to the wall, but for now it just hangs from the ceiling. In the distance, you can see the niche between the slab and the ceiling. Of course, it would be possible to make a locker, but we abandoned this idea, it will be too high and very unlikely to be used often.

We close it up with a brick, cover up the cracks. The old brick was not enough, so I had to buy a new one.

now it's time to disassemble the shaft with the riser. Everything had to be done very carefully so as not to turn off the toilet and not disrupt communications. After all, it's not easy to live without a toilet.

They dismantled everything down to the pipes. There's a hole in the floor. To prevent the old cast-iron pipe from falling, we reinforce the floor with fittings, put boxes on the meters so that they do not suffer during repair work.

We close the hole at the site of the mine with a cement-sand mixture.

Level the floor between the bathroom and toilet.

We dismantle the toilet. We sew up a pipe riser. To do this, we needed metal profiles and the most common foam plates - it is cheap and absorbs excess water noise. We leave the revision window for access to the counters. We seal all the cracks with polyurethane foam. The pipes for the heated towel rail are immediately brought out.

We insert a new corrugation for the toilet. Before that, it was cast-iron, and now it is movable plastic, which means that there will be no problems with installing a new toilet.

We sew up the riser with plasterboard sheets. We make serifs on the walls so that the finishing materials hold better.

Here is such an ideal riser we end up with. It seems that the entire wall is sewn up, but this is not so - here you can see a hidden hatch so that we can have access to the plumbing system. For this we came in handy awnings for furniture and a push mechanism for the door.

Now you can go back to the floor, now it can be finally leveled to get rid of that unfortunate drop. Our helpers in this are a cement-sand mixture and a spatula. We leave to dry.

Because our walls are very uneven. They will have to be properly leveled and an impressive layer of plaster is indispensable. We install metal beacons for plastering, we will lose a couple of centimeters of space, but we have to sacrifice so that the walls are perfectly even.

We prime the surface, this is necessary in order to strengthen the wall itself (do not forget that the brick is very old) and this will improve the adhesion to the finishing material.

Plastering process. As we can observe, the layer is impressive, 3-4 centimeters.

Due to the fact that we have installed beacons, we can see which layer needs to be applied.

This is how it looks in the end. Let it dry.

We cover the entire surface of the walls with plaster, then we prime.

We pass to the floor. Our floor will be tiled with square tiles diagonally. This tiling method is not easy, but worth it. This arrangement visually increases the space, and because we have a small bathroom, we will try to add volume at least visually.

Before starting to lay the tiles, we prepared the surface - leveled it, repaired all the holes and potholes on the walls and floor, primed it. The primer improves the adhesion of the tiles to the floor. After applying the primer, let it dry.

Here is such a handsome floor we got in the end. Light-colored tiles again add space, and thanks to the pattern, dirt and drops are not visible on it.

It's time to remove the old door frame and install a new door. We dismantle the thresholds.

We collect a new door frame and install it in the opening. To prevent the door beams from bending, we put wooden wedges between the wall and the box.

The bases of the box themselves were fixed with metal corners. The outside wall of the bathroom is also plastered.

The door is the simplest, made of chipboard. Firstly, such a door is inexpensive and is quite suitable for our interior. We hang it on the hinges. Then we carefully foame all the seams and cracks between the box and the wall.

New toilet - new toilet. Installed in place of the old one. Now we move on to preparing the walls for laying out the tiles. Our tools are a spray gun, which is very convenient for priming walls, simple and comb spatulas, crosses. I fixed the level on the wall, it will serve us as a starting profile.

We knead the tile glue. He will check whether he is ready very easily - we take a trowel or a spatula and scoop it up: if it does not drain immediately and does not fall off in a piece. So the consistency is ideal, if it's too liquid, add the glue mixture, if it's thick - water.

On the wall, we have already pre-made notches for better adhesion of the walls and tiles and covered with concrete contact, for the same purpose. We draw marks for the tiles, we check everything with a level.

We begin to lay out the support row, do not forget to use the suture crosses, they guarantee that there will be no distortions.

We do the same manipulations with the other wall - we check whether the walls are vertical with a plumb line, fix the starting level.

This wall is the most difficult - here we have communications. Here you have to break your head how best to arrange the tiles, which did not have to cut a lot. We lay out a decorative border, we have it as a guide - where there is no profile (above the taps), a board was attached under the tiles so that the tiles would not slide off.

With a diamond drill we drill a hole for the wiring, bring out the wires - here we will have a lamp.

Another difficult area is the space above the door, there is no support row here, so in order for the tile not to move, we will use good old scotch tape.

As you can see, we do not lay out the tiles up to the ceiling itself, there will then be a suspended ceiling, so we leave 5 cm.

We rub the tile joints.

Our tiles are in two shades of beige. Lighter tiles on the top and darker ones on the bottom help to visually increase the space.

It's time to install a new heated towel rail. Mark the holes for the fasteners and drill them.

Installing a heated towel rail is not an easy task; to mount it, you have to install a hook in the ceiling and hang it.

The holes on the wall are made, we report the tiles and in the same places we make holes already in the tiles itself.

Now it remains to lay out non-whole tiles in the corner.

We complete the styling process. In order not to confuse the cut tiles, we number them, which greatly facilitates the work.

Another way to save space in a tiny bathroom is to flush the pipes into the wall. First, cuts were made with a grinder, and then with a chisel, a chisel and a hammer, the grooves were hollowed out, where the pipes were placed. A new mixer was installed.

Now you need to make holes in the tile itself.To do this, we will use a special crown for drilling round holes. We install it on a drill and at low speeds in a couple of minutes we get a neat hole.

We glue the tiles, rub. No more pipes will disfigure our bathroom.

This is how our bath looks at this stage. We install the ventilation grill.

Alas, the pictures end there, but the renovation does not. It remains for us to arrange the ceiling. This will be an aluminum slat suspended ceiling. As we already said, our main task is to expand the space as much as possible, so we chose a glossy rail.
Spot lighting helped us make the bathroom very light and therefore spacious. Then we hung up a new sink, the space under the bathtub was covered with a special color-matched plastic screen.

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As a result, we made a great transformation of the bathroom and got additional space, both in the bathroom itself and in the hallway. In the vacant space, you can put a washing machine and hang shelves. The renovation turned out to be budgetary, we used to the maximum what was still quite suitable (brick, bath) and chose the most inexpensive materials.