When you’ve just spent thousands on your new bathroom, the last thing you want is to rip it all up a year down the track and do it again.
I was chatting to builder and TV presenter Luke Van Dyck earlier this week and he told me it was “standing room only” at his seminar at a Sydney Home Buyer Show last weekend. I asked him what the number one question was and without any hesitation he said: “wet area failure”.
I already know that wet area defects (mostly the bathroom folks) are very common. I covered this in detail in chapter 7 of The Renovator’s Survival Guide. That chapter, Look out for trouble, begins like this:
“Finally! Building begins. Hopefully this is when all your hard work pays off. Sometimes, though, despite the most perfect preparation, things aren’t the size you imagined, or go more slowly than you thought they would. And you could discover problems in the existing building that weren’t previously apparent. In this chapter we run through the key things to loo for in construction and how and when to get them fixed.”
Ok. Honestly, I really think you should buy the book if you’re at all interested in preparing for my renovation. But in case you want something for free, and want to know how to disaster-proof your bathroom, you could check out this article I wrote a while ago for LookHome magazine, What Lies Beneath.
I know what goes under the tiles isn’t glamourous, but think of it as the great foundation!
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