Repair of bathrooms and bathrooms with your own hands

In detail: do-it-yourself bathroom renovation from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.

Hello dear readers! Continuing the topic of repair, I will tell you how to start repairing the bathroom and toilet with your own hands. Surely many renovating these premises are faced with this issue.

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

Toilet and bathroom are kind of twins. I advise you to tile the premises with tiles of the same type, but of a different shade. If you use the same finishing technique, you will get 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 bathroom and toilet. This approach will save you money. After finishing, trimmings will remain, which are 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 bring only a convenient and comfortable bathroom.

Measure the room . Take a piece of paper, a pencil, a tape measure and measure the length and height of the walls, the area of the room. Based on the figures obtained, calculate the amount of materials that will be required to repair the bathroom.
Mentally imagine a new bathroom . Decide on the color and type of finishing materials, the location of the bath, furniture and accessories.
Prepare the room . Clean the walls and ceiling of the bathroom from the old finish. The work is dusty and dirty, so wear a respirator. You will need a puncher, spatula, metal brush and other tools.
Treat the walls with a primer . Lay the wiring and level the ceiling with putty. At this stage, mark the vertical and horizontal lines with a level or plumb line.
Plumbing replacement . A responsible step, I do not advise saving on it. We are talking about replacing the plumbing, risers and sewerage in the bathroom.
Floor waterproofing . Making a cement screed, water will not seep to the neighbors. Treat the joints between the walls and the floor, the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe bathroom with a special waterproofing solution.
For wall and floor decoration . Try tiling your bathroom yourself. If there are no skills, ask a tiler for help. Some, for the sake of economy, do not veneer the place behind and under the bathroom. It is better to veneer the planes, and put the bath on the tile. The screen will help to hide the side and communications.
Door installation . If you are going to replace your bathroom door, do it before tiling.
Plinth and ceiling . At the end, install a decorative plinth along the perimeter of the ceiling, 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 plastic panel structures. It remains to seal the seams.

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Following the instructions, you will reach the final stage. At the end, install the sink, hang a mirror and lamp, install furniture. The end result is a beautiful room.People face difficulties when renovating the toilet room.The toilet is an important part of housing, which I advise you to repair thoroughly and correctly, taking into account all the little things. Where to start the painstaking process, I will tell below.

These are such tiny spaces that are called "do not turn around." 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 to the maximum from tiles and a layer of paint. The sink was removed, it needs to be replaced, but the bathtub was left, it is cast iron and in good condition.

The ceilings in the apartment are at different levels, a niche is hidden under the plywood, although it was quite possible to make a locker. However, now it is irrelevant, we will change the location of the door.

Such a mosaic tile adorned the walls of the toilet, you will not find such a one now.

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

A red brick partition is decorated with a decent layer of plaster - 3-4 cm, we knock down all this "wealth". We'll tear down the wall. We still need this brick.

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

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 didn’t have one. All materials are already old, so plaster and tiles are easily knocked off.

Here is a wall hiding behind a layer of plaster and tiles.

The most difficult thing was to remove all this “beauty”, as we 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 knock everything down, we remove the lamp.

This is how the wall opposite 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, we save the bricks, as I said, they are in good condition, so why spend money on extra materials. Whole bricks are stored in the bathroom.

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

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

Now this difference must be leveled to the maximum, we knock down everything superfluous with a hammer and a chisel, remove two layers of tiles in the toilet.

See how much space there will be in the bathroom combined with the toilet, there will be room 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. Great solution for such a small apartment.

We arm ourselves with a trowel and a cement-sand mixture and build 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 boundary. 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 slots, and then covered with a mixture.

View from the outside: this is how much space will be added in the corridor due to the fact that there will be no door here. In a small area, every centimeter of roads.

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

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

now it's time to dismantle the shaft with the riser. Everything had to be done extremely 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 is a hole in the floor. So that the old cast-iron pipe does not fall, we strengthen the floor with fittings, put boxes on the counters so that they do not suffer during repair work.

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

We level the floor between the bathroom and the toilet.

We dismantle the toilet. We sew up a riser for pipes. To do this, we needed metal profiles and the most common foam boards - cheap and absorbs excess water noise. We leave an audit window for access to counters. We seal all the cracks with mounting foam. There are also pipes for a heated towel rail.

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 bowl.

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

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

Now you can return to the floor, now you can finally level it to get rid of that ill-fated drop. Our assistants 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 cannot be dispensed with. 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 adhesion to the finishing material.

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

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

Here's what it looks like in the end. Let's dry.

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

Let's go to the floor. Our floor will be tiled diagonally. This way of laying tiles is not easy, but it's worth it. This arrangement visually increases the space, and because our bathroom is small, we will try to add volume at least visually.

Before we started laying the tiles, we prepared the surface - leveled, repaired all the holes and potholes on the walls and floor, primed. The primer improves the adhesion of 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 thresholds.

We assemble a new door frame and install it in the opening. In order 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 outer wall of the bathroom is also plastered.

The door is the simplest, made of chipboard. Firstly, such a door is inexpensive and quite suitable for our interior. We hang it on loops. Then we carefully foam 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 mix the tile adhesive. It will be very easy to check whether it is ready - 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. This means that the consistency is ideal, if it is too liquid, add the glue mixture, if it is thick - water.

On the wall, we have already pre-made serifs, for better adhesion of the wall 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 reference row, do not forget to use seam crosses, they guarantee that there will be no distortions.

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

This wall is the most difficult - we have communications here. Here you have to rack your brains on how best to arrange the tiles, so that you don’t 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 tile so that the tile does not move out.

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

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

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

We rub the tile seams.

The tiles are in two shades of beige. Lighter tiles on top and darker tiles on the bottom help visually enlarge the space.

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

Installing a heated towel rail is not an easy task; in order 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 tile and in the same places we make holes already in the tile itself.

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

We complete the installation 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 sink pipes into the wall.First, cuts were made with a grinder, and then strobes were hollowed out with a chisel, a chisel and a hammer, where the pipes were placed. Installed a new faucet.

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

We glue the tiles, we overwrite. No more pipes disfigure our bathroom.

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

Alas, the pictures end there, but the repair does not. It remains for us to decorate the ceiling. This will be an aluminum rail suspended ceiling. As we have already said, our main task is to maximize the space, so we chose a glossy rail.
The spotlights helped us to make the bathroom very bright and therefore feel spacious. Then we hung a new sink, the space under the bathroom was covered with a special plastic screen in color.

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As a result, we have greatly transformed the bathroom and received additional space, both in the bathroom itself and in the hallway. In the vacated space, you can put a washing machine and hang shelves. The repair turned out to be budgetary, we used to the maximum what is still quite suitable (brick, bathtub) and chose the most inexpensive materials.