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Took out the loo yesterday. It was trivial. Came out with a regular hammer and a few taps BUT the very base of the pan was around 4-5 inches under the floor :eek: Explains why it felt so low ... Smashed out the ceramic of the outlet pipe down to the plastic, our toilet expert cometh tomorrow...

Oooh and I found my flash card too - right in the middle of the coffee table (it wasn't there yesterday, we have a toddler who moves things mysteriously) so I can get some photos tomorrow :D The vanity has a gap behind it so we're just going to cut some of the really dense hardwood we have...

We had a minor mishap involving a spade bit, a finger, an artery (who knew arteries in fingers did the same as arteries everywhere else?) and the hospital that has put a dent in things ... Got the vanity mostly in, taking 1/2 cm off one side of a wall always ends up taking several inches off...

Oooh, that's a good idea (there's about 1500 or so in front of the toilet, probably more). Could use a shelf there too - a full height wall would be dumb but a cistern height one would work. Started on the vanity today. The stupid steps are in the way and the original sink was set back where...

The building is a commercial one from the 1870s, which explains the large scale and the strange floorplan. It got converted to a house in the 1980s so the bathroom stuff is 'modern' to a point, the pan predates dual flushes and the sink is one of the cast metal ones that bolts to the wall with...

Oh, I wish I knew where my flash card was so I could get some photos. EVERYONE does a double-take when they see the steps. I had someone suggest I put red carpet there, leading up to the throne.

I reckon that's the technical term for the armwaving our man in the know was doing earlier today :) Pft hardly, its a 12 foot ceiling in there. Well, 10.5 foot in that corner as the toilet is up some steps - it looks really stupid. Its the reason the plumbing is above ground - the previous...

The base of the pan is almost 3 inches under slate and then tiles - as in, it was installed in the 80s and then tiled over. Twice. Once with raw slate that can be anything up to 5cm thick. It aint going to come loose any time soon. Hence wanting to smash it with a sledgehammer or cut it off with...

We're going to attempt this next week. Any tips? :D The toilet itself is child-height as it has been slated in with 2 inch thick raw slate and then we tiled over that. We're planning on borrowing some electricity from the neighbours (ours has been disconnected for some time now) and...