Product Description

Those wanting to update their homes, either by refurbishing their existing bathrooms, or by installing an additional bathroom, or a cloakroom, have often found it a very complex business and have had difficulty in obtaining practical, well-informed, independent advice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20752 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

About the Author
Richard Moss has over thirty years'; experience in the bathroom and kitchen industry. During this time he has been involved in drawing up specifications for, and planning, many new bathrooms. He has worked for the bathroom industry's leading brands, has been the project manager on many new bathroom installations and has helped to establish a training programme for the industry. The information contained in this book isbased on his considerable first-hand experience. Resident - North Lincolnshire

Customer Reviews

Very Good - Room For Improvement
This book is thankfully modern. It was written in 2007, and its contents are still very much up to date in 2009. It is also specifically UK focused, which is another very important piece of information. American home improvement plumbing publications abound, but are of limited use to UK readers.

Its contents include the selection, situation and conceptial plumbing of common bathroom fittings such as baths, showers, sinks, toilets and taps. It considers the space required around a unit and any legal requirements therein, and considerations for ventilation, water pressure and temperature. If you intend to design a bathroom using this as your guide, and then hand your plans over to a qualified plumber to complete the actual installation, this book should suffice perfectly, and will ensure that you don't fall foul of physical and regulatory limitations. For this kind of information this book excels in its clarity and content.

If however, you are looking for a guide showing you step-by-step exactly how to install a bathroom, you will not find any such information in this book. It goes as far as to show basic schematics of fittings installed in-situ, but knowledge on how you may actually go about cutting and bending pipework, wiring a power shower, routing a waste pipe or laying tiling will need to be taken from other sources. This would not have been a problem had the book's subtitle not proudly boasted 'A Complete Guide - Planning, Managing and Completing Your Installation'. For this reason, I have deducted one star. I believe the words 'Completing Your Installation' should have been excluded here.

Great Bathroom Guide
A really good guide to everything you need to know about installing a bathroom. We looked at a few different ones when deciding what do with ours and this was the best. Answers all those tricky technical questions so you know what you're talking about when it gets down to booking workmen and holds your hand if you want to do it yourself. It also helps sort out those design conundrums.