This was a dressing room in Dave's house. His wife decided that it was a waste of space and had to go (The dressing room, not Dave). So they decided that they would like a shower room en-suite.
I suggested that they went for a wet room. But they thought that this would be too expensive. I pointed out that most of the work would have to be done either way and they would save on a shower cubicle. As they had been looking at shower cubicles up to £800.00 they actually saved money.

Opposite you can see the room with the wardrobe doors having been removed. The radiator has to be moved to the left hand wall to make way for the hand basin and toilet under the window.

As this is a bungalow the floor was a very hard concrete and I had to cut into it for the shower drain.
Although there was not any plumbing in this room before, there was, fortunately, a soil stack boxed into the corner of the wardrobe. This came from a bedroom in the loft area of the bungalow.

To enclose the wet area and to give separate access to the bedroom we had to put up a stud wall. You had to walk through the dressing room to get to the bedroom. The bedroom door is on the right. The wall had to have a door frame incorporated in it.

The radiator has been repositioned onto the left hand wall. The pipe work has now been taken from a radiator in the next room, just the other side of the wall.

The soil pipe has been cut into the stack and the floor chased out to incorporate the shower waste.
Also the services to the basin, WC and shower have been plumbed in from the loft down the side of the soil stack.

With the shower drain in place, the stack was boxed in and the floor was then skimmed with concrete to slope into the shower drain.
Then the floor was sealed and the under floor heating installed.

The stud work was then boarded, skimmed with plaster and the heating controls fitted.

The floor has been tiled over with a large mosaic tile

Here we have begun to tile the walls, cutting neat holes for the shower supply.
The tiles are large white ones with random patterned ones.

With the tiling finished and grouted, the shower mixer is fitted.

The last thing to do to finish the tiling was to box in the pipe work and grout the floor with a sandstone grout from Topps Tiles.

With the WC and basin fitted and plumbed we are nearly finished.
The radiator is refitted.

The floor tiling slopes gently into a small drain for the shower.
All the pipe work is hidden and neatly tiled around the basin pedestal.

The WC and basin angle towards the wall creating a more spacious look at the shower end.

Last but not least. The door is hung.
All Dave has to do now is decorate. Good luck.

What Dave has to say.

Testimonial for Apollo Design

We were exploring what options were available to us to convert an existing dressing room and wardrobe into an en-suite and had serious doubts about what was achievable in the space available. We contacted a number of potential suppliers/contractors, none of whom gave us sufficient confidence for us to proceed until we spoke to Alan Boswell. What a breath of fresh air, he offered ideas (and continued to do so throughout as the project progressed) and suggested options we hadn’t even considered. We had been thinking about installing a shower cubicle but Alan suggested a wet room which would actually save money and make the room seem much more spacious. I liked Alans approach, he cares about the result and the customers satisfaction, he reassured us throughout and offered advice on sourcing equipment and supplies as well as turning up on time every day until the work was complete. We were delighted with the results.

Dave 28th February 2007