Got some more of my bathroom ripped apart. Previously I got the end and side panels over the bath removed. Today I dismantled the stud wall at the end of the bath and took down almost all of the drywall beside the bath. There's now a clear line of sight through the stud wall into the adjacent room.
Next up I need to disconnect the water so I can remove the plumbing fixtures, disconnect the drain from the bathtub, and get the bathtub out of the way. The light I put in the adjacent room doesn't really cast enough light to feel comfortable doing the work I need to do, not least because the valves that disconnect that part of the house aren't in a good way. One is so badly corroded there's almost nothing left and the other is stuck tight and difficult to access. I can see what I'll probably do is turn off the master valve to the house, then cut the valves out and replace them with new ones, then turn everything back on.
Along the way I'll need to rejig some of the pipework. For some reason whatever genius set it all up created a nasty jumble of pipes such that the valve to disconnect the bathroom also disconnects the outside tap. So it looks like I'll need three valves - hot water, cold water, outside tap. I think I currently have two valves in my stock, but at a push I can do without the hot water supply to this bathroom for a time. The only reason I want to keep the cold water supply is so that I can mix cement in the area, as there's almost certainly still some brickwork repair to be done.
