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lynx
"Let's retile the bathroom" has turned into a fucking nightmare. Taking the old (1kg each) tiles off took little more than a pull with one finger, as we've discovered the previous owner's builder stuck them onto bonding plaster, eeep. I moved the bath and found the corner floor was bouncing a good inch or two - old plywood gets taken up and surprise surprise the floor joist was basically gone from rot.
New joist in, braced, new floor ply put in and self-levelling poured on. All of this caused by whoever plumbed the bath in never bothered with a trap, and had hacksawed and pushed together two different diameter pipes together to create a Franken-wastepipe. So it's been leaking for 10 years, plus they'd not sealed the bath. Fucking arsehole.
I've now cement boarded and drylined everything so it's all new, ready to be tanked and tiled properly, and after days of washing in the kitchen sink, finally got the bath plumbed back in... only for my wife to be rushed to hospital for an emergency C-section, and our first child arriving 5 weeks early (they're both doing great)
The last 3 weeks have been an absolute trip!