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Questions about cheap bathroom changes

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BuckingFrolics · 17/03/2019 12:05

I've just had a new kitchen fitted and am abit broke.

But am desperate for a bigger bath as I barely fit in the tiny one in my house.

I'd be getting a wider and longer bath (there is room) but the bath is along two walls so how much damage to tiles happens? The walls are tiled floor to ceiling atm. I'd be ok with some retiling but desperately want to avoid having to retile two whole walls

Second question. How easy is it to replace a toilet? And again, what's the tiling damage?

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wowfudge · 17/03/2019 12:43

Ime it depends what has been tiled. If the wall has been tiled and the bath fitted afterwards instead of the bath fitted and tiles fitted from the bath rim upwards then it should be possible to remove the old bath and fit a new one without disturbing the tiles. Can you tell which has been done or post a photo? If you are fitting a bigger bath it might cover where the old one completely.

With the toilet, the main area that might be affected is the floor and the flooring could go under it or it might have been fitted around it. The cistern may be screwed or glued (yes, I know!) to the wall - a new toilet's cistern will probably cover where the old one was fixed.

TheRhythmlessMan · 17/03/2019 12:55

We replaced a toilet and we didn't need to do anything to the floor because the footprint of the old one was smaller than the footprint of the new one so when put in its place any differences were covered.

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