Help with bathroom pls

2 years ago

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Ok idiot here. How do I go about planning a new bathroom. If I buy the bath / sink toilet from a bathroom supplier where the heck do you store it all pending a fitter?(huge waiting times at the mo ) Do you buy the items but then how can you store them until the fitter comes, or do you book a fitter - before you've even bought a a bath etc for them to fit ?pls help

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User
2 years ago
I'm currently buying fittings for my bathroom too and storing them in a spare room. Do you have a spare room or a garage to use?
Jonathan
2 years ago
Book a fitter first and see if they can source what you want
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Bathroom & Kitchen Planet Stirling Ltd
2 years ago
It depends on the store but alot of places will arrange your fitter for you so you don't have to store the items!
Frank
2 years ago
We pre-ordered our bathroom fixtures well ahead of installation; a good thing in the end because the orders were delayed, we received everything only by the end of six months past order date. Just "lucky" (grumble) our bathroom installation was even more delayed (18 months) than that. With hindsight ... given the current price rises in sanitaryware and fixtures, I guess the bathroom would've cost us over twice what we paid had we only ordered "closer" to install, or relied on the installer sourcing "just-in-time".

Storing it ... the largest item, of course, is the bathtub. The amount of space to store is basically the size of the bath; you can stash toilets/sinks/shower screens+trays pretty much all on top of, or inside, the bath. Or you put the bath upright against the wall and stack the other items next to it. We've done both at times during our wait, the space need is roughly the same. So if you have a guest bedroom with a single bed in it ... that'd do, size-wise. Put a clean sheet of shuttering ply on the bed and stack the sanitaryware on top.

Expect that you'll get annoyed with the storage as waiting time passes. It does at times get in your way, it uses up room space that you will at times think of "oh can't do this now due to the bl**dy bathtub ...". If you've got kids, you'll remind them all the time to be careful around the stored stuff, no the pile is not for climbing around over. On the other hand, preordering sanitaryware may be the only option if you seek specific pieces from, say, Italian, German or US higher-end suppliers, or if you have custom-made pieces in your plans; you may well find companies or manufacturers there that export direct, but will have huge lead times. If it's this kind of unique piece you seek, it's worth the wait, and worth making space for :-)

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