Now unfortunately, the phantom AWI camera man has been a little lapse again and forgot the camera on day one so the before pictures are not these best - he apologises and will be tortured to try to ensure it doesn't continue to happen.

This en-suite was the typical new build bathroom (the house was approximately 9-10 years old), square 760mm2 shower enclosure with corner opening doors in the right hand corner of the room with sink to the right.  The toilet was on the wall facing the door and the radiator was on the window wall. 

The toilet in this room was not connected to the main soil stack (the large waste pipe outside the house) but to a "secondary stack". 

Because of the distance of this stack from the main one it needed additional venting (the vent is the grilled cowel at the top of the soil stack and is meant to allow air in and out of the sewer to prevent vacuums and excess sewer gas build up). 

With a "secondary stack" it is common to use an air admittance valve or "Durgo" valve which allows air into the sewer but not back out - this replaces the cowel and means that the vent can be inside the property since there will be no smells etc.  This system is normally employed to reduce the amount of visible pipe-work outside the property.

This particular job had such a valve which can be seen in the fifth "before" picture down - it was originally built into a pipe casing by the builders which was large, unsightly and prevented the toilet being mounted on the window wall.  We re-worked this pipe to still conform to building regulations but to allow the pipe to be concealed meaning the toilet could be mounted flush to the window wall.

Other changes included are listed below.

From start to finish the job included:

• Removal of the bathroom suite, tiles and plaster
• Re-plaster-boarding where required
• Door re-hung to be hinged on the outside opening to the left (originally the door was hinged on the inside opening to the right)
• Installation of white high gloss PVC ceiling cladding
• Installation of low voltage halogen lighting
• Installation of a chrome effect extractor fan, ducted to the outside
• Re-plumbing including moving the radiator to provide for a new towel radiator near the shower; re-working of the soil stack to allow the toilet to be mounted flush to the window wall; re-plumbing to move the sink
• Re-wiring to move the shaver socket from the old sink location to the wall in-between the shower and toilet
• Walls fully tiled (ceramic tiles)
• Floor fully tiled (porcelain tiles)
• Installation of the new bathroom suite including toilet, wall hung basin, Matki shower enclosure - still one of the best in our opinion, thermostatic mixer shower, ladder style towel radiator and accessories