Home DIY

Here you go: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unique-Cast-Iron-Canopy-Roll-Top-Bath-Shower-Victorian-Edwardian-Era-/252129569087

Oddly that's not a million miles from what I first imagined - though I was thinking something that perhaps slid out of a case/similar while on rails - i.e. you could hide it when not in use.

Think I'll just get a shower curtain.

BRO.
Be careful choosing roll top baths, I had one in one of the bathrooms a couple of houses a go, the bathroom was an okish size but backed on to the canal pretty much. In winter the bath would cool the water so quickly you'd never get a hot bath.

@Oliver Schick if that's s joke I don't get it, if not, I still don't get it. Sorry.

Ta ^ & ^^

Any thoughts on baths that are more suited to being used for showers? (I don't recall using the bath in last flat in 4 years we were there - I just used the separate shower room but small new house means no such luxury).

Any particular design traits that shower centric baths have? I.e. flat base at one end? Grippy bits etc? Any and all recommendations appreciated.

EDIT: Who knew? 'shower baths' are a thing. http://www.bathstore.com/products/baths/shower-baths

@Oliver Schick if that's s joke I don't get it, if not, I still don't get it. Sorry.

You clearly haven't been reading the Food thread. :)

Very much a middle aged bath.

Wider at the waist with a flat bottom.

Continuing the thought process, I too hate baths but will have to retain a resemblance of one for resale reasons. And don't have the option of a separate shower /wet room.

What other options are there? Is there a super shallow shower bath perhaps?

Or a door or something?

walk in tubs - it's a senior thing

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Yes, a super shallow bath is available. Search for "shower tray" and you will find loads of them.

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fuck me are they expensive!!!!

10x the price of a normal bath...

Your a shower tray

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Ahhh no I haven't, sorry!

this one is cheaper in the galvanized version

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... and more if you do a search for 'square plates'. :)

To preemptively answer my own question, I should probably just call an electrician, but just in case I'm being stupid enough that someone feels they can confidently advise over the internet, I thought I'd give this a shot...

... I'm trying to replace a fugly black and chrome three light fitting with one of yer standard white numbers. I actually did the same job at the weekend at my gf's dad's place and it was pleasingly straightforward. One red wire, one black and one green. Bam. I almost felt competent. Illusion shattered upon removing the fitting in our lounge and finding three separate wires emerging from the hole in the ceiling. Each large wire has a red, a black and a green emerging. These constituent wires are gathered together in plastic junction things, all the reds together, all the greens, two of the blacks then a lonely black. The diagrams supplied with my new fitting don't cover three wires. I assume the lonely black is the light switch, but I'm struggling to understand what is going on with the three red wires or how to set up from here. Does this sound incredibly simple to anyone who could point me in the right direction or should I be getting a real man in to do the job?

Cheers

http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/lights_and_switches.htm

That definitely all looks right visually, and I assume I'd take the lonely black cable as the wire to the switch. But, what the diagram above calls the 'live terminal' is labeled 'loop' on my ceiling fitting. Same thing?

Cheers

How old is the house wiring?

Is this a single light, one switch?

This weekend was dedicated to woodfiller. I breathed its fumes, got it on my hands and ingested it through handling Jaffa cakes and breathed its dust when sanding it down.

Enough of the sex talk, what PPE does he need for wood filler?

Hi - I think this may have been directed at me (the clueless questioner) rather than @Greenbank who helpfully shared that diagram. I'm based in SE23.

So, the three reds are currently grouped together into a connector block. And all the greens. And two blacks. And the lonely one. Looking at the diagram, is there any reason I can't just run a wire from the red connector block into the live/loop middle terminal on the fitting, a wire from the green connector block to the earth point, one from the two blacks to the neutral terminal and the lonely black to the live terminal? Is this going to kill me?

Cheers

Oh, useless pic, in case that helps at all:

• The reds all grouped together are the loop lives
  
• The greens are the earths
  
• The blacks together are neutrals
  
• The black on its own is the 'switch live' from your light switch.
  
  

edit: incidentally, if your earth sleeving is plain green then your house wiring predates 1977.

to feed your new light you need:

• switched live
  
• neutral
  
• earth
  
  

So your plan seems to make sense.

Remember to use earth sleeving on any bare earth wires. Make sure you give each newly connected terminal a proper tug to ensure all the wires are in snugly.
Bear in mind that the lives in the ceiling will be 'hot' even with the switch off, so make sure you turn off the lighting circuit first, if not already done so.

Really helpful, thank you! Bought some earth sleeving, going to give this a shot tonight. Am very careful to turn off the lighting circuit...

The lights and the power are on different fuse circuits so I can kill the lights whilst still enjoying illumination from various lamps. Is this an awful idea?

You'd wrap the connectors in insulation tape? Just to make it really annoying for whoever comes to the fitting after me, or is this a serious safety imperative?