Shower – the disabled seat went via Freecycle
We have spent the past couple of weekends stripping out one of the cottages. The upstairs is now pretty much done in the smaller of the two cottages. The bathroom was the only thing left upstairs and that was removed last weekend. The bathroom had a disabled shower and we were pleased that we managed to find the shower seat a new home. This went very quickly via Freecycle (www.freecycle.net) as did a spare double bed and mattress. I can see us using this as a method for getting rid of a lot of surplus stuff.
The flooring upstairs is tongue and groove chipboard and is in a terrible state – it hadn’t been laid very well in the first place and then a plumber seems to have hacked it about when installing the central heating. I have a funny feeling that this is going to need to be taken up and replaced. However, we need to finish off removing everything upstairs before removing the flooring.
The bathroom itself had a built-in shower tray and once this was removed, there was a hole in the floor. The shower appears to have leaked over time and the chipboard had rotted. The wall tiles were not too much of a challenge and came off fairly easily – mostly a whole tile at a time. Once the floor has been taken up, we will remove all of the pipework.
Existing bathroom – shower to picture right
Just the bathroom now left upstairs
The bathroom now gone – partition removed. Shower, toilet and basin in the skip.