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Now the bathroom is starting to take shape and with the Elements board covering up the stud work, plumbing and wiring, a real sense of progress is hitting the team.
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Bathroom Renovation #5 – Piping Up & Plumbing Tips
Episode #5 of our bathroom renovation series, piping up and plumbing tips with Abacus bathrooms. We'll show you how to renovate a bathroom.
Read More »Bathroom Renovation #4 – Stud Pre-wall
Episode #4 of our bathroom renovation series. Over the course of this video series, we will show you how to renovate a bathroom from start to finish.
Read More »Bathroom Renovation #3 – Shower Tray Prep
The shower tray (or shower former) sits inside the existing floor which means cutting into a very old structure and peering into the past.
Read More »Bathroom Renovation #1 – Demolition & Rip Out
The first episode of our new bathroom renovation series in association with Abacus bathrooms. Over the course of this video series, we will show you how to renovate a bathroom from start to finish. This is the demolition & rip out and demolition of the old bathroom before the new wet room can be built. Tools and materials used in …
Read More »Leaking Shower? Could This Be The Problem?
Roger visits a £500,000 newbuild to solve a leaking shower issue that is so common it's almost a national epidemic.
Read More »How to install a bathroom
A longer video from Roger this time talking through how to install a bathroom which contains useful information for plumbers, installers and householders alike. Roger is installing a bathroom from Abacus because he likes the way the British manufacturer designs its bathrooms with British plumbing systems in mind making them easy to install.
Read More »Installing a Level Access Shower Tray with Clip-lock Drain
Roger is back at Abacus Bathrooms, this time to install a level access shower tray with a square end clip-lock drain.
Read More »The bathroom system that could change the way plumbers work
In this video, Ian Pattison the owner of Abacus Manufacturing Group and one time plumber’s merchant explains the benefits of the Abacus complete bathroom system which has been designed to be quick and easy to fit. Created with the installer in mind, Ian believes the simplicity of the Abacus system has the potential to change the way that plumbers work. …
Read More »Skill Builder’s top videos of 2016
There’s been lots happening on the Skill Builder YouTube channel in 2016; here’s a few highlights. Power tools In January 2016 we published the first part of the new 18v drill test which was first published in 2014. This time we split it into three parts looking at: Part 1 – batteries; Part 2 – flat bits; Part 3 – …
Read More »Why don’t Premier League footballers have mouldy bathrooms?
For all those who think that bathroom mould and mildew is unavoidable in the British climate, the fact that it rarely, if ever, exists in up-market bathrooms is telling. You may think this is simply down to being able to afford a good cleaner, and admittedly that helps, but a lot of the things that cause mould are built into …
Read More »How to fit a wall hung WC & basin (Part 1: Mounting the frame)
Roger Bisby talks through how to fit a wall hung WC and basin from British company Abacus Bathrooms. As a British company Abacus has a good understanding of British plumbing and the WC and Basin in this video have been designed to work with British systems so you’re not running around different merchants looking for a non-existant adapter for a …
Read More »How to: Take the sweat and drama out of plumbing
In this video Roger Bisby looks at how a water distribution manifold from Abacus Bathrooms can take all the sweat and drama out of plumbing. The use of water distribution manifolds in mains pressure installations is a useful way of giving ultimate serviceability to all your bathroom products. It also reduces the chances of any leaks because you aren’t teeing …
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