Advice/tips please - last stage of house renovation

RoseLondon

Good evening.

We are near completion of the plaster work at the end of a major house extension/ renovation. The building company is not responsible for flooring, tiling, painting and kitchen fitting. But they are doing the plumbing and electrical works.

We found it's really hard to coordinate with them from this stage as we don't know exactly what needs to be done before what and their plumber isn't very helpful in terms of educating us what suits and what not.

We are having a meeting with the project manager soon. Before that we want to understand better at this stage what lessons to learn before completion.

We want to understand the sequence of works, as some relies on the completion of others.

A few questions we have already in mind:

- shall the radiators and the boiler be fitted AFTER painting?

- shall the floor and walls be tiled first before fitting bathroom units?

- when bathroom is only tiled half way to ceiling and paint the rest, shall tiling happen first or painting happen first?

- shall the doors be fitted after painting or doesn't matter?

Any tips/advice you could share to complete this last phase, i.e. post-plaster and painting/tiling and fitting things in walls/floors.


Would be grateful if anyone can offer some insights!

tonyh66

Isn't all the questions you ask the responsiblity of the project manager? he/she should know the answers.

Bigphil1474

OP, as above, see what your PM says. Generally, you want to do the jobs in the order that means they aren't going to undo or hinder the previous job e.g. no point fitting plug sockets, then finding out they are where your radiator needs to be. I'm not a professional, but a reasonably experienced DIYer. If it was me:-


- radiators and boiler fitted AFTER painting? Yes if you want the wall behind to be painted. Depends on the radiators, but you can paint behind them far enough not to notice anyway. Boiler should be okay either way.

- floor and walls tiled before fitting bathroom units? Again depends. If you have a free standing bath then you'd want them doing first. If you have a bath with sides which is sited into a corner, then you probably won't see under the bath anyway. My bathroom has laminate flooring up to the side of the bath, and is tiled from the bath upwards. Under the bath is just floorboards. Cupboards would probably sit better on an untiled wall.

- bathroom half tiled, paint the restt? The order doesn't really matter IMO. Probably easier to paint first - you can paint just below the top line of tiles, so that when you fit the tiles you get a neat line. Other way round, you might end up getting paint on the nice new tiles if you are doing it yourself. If it' a professional, probably not an issue.

- doors be fitted after painting? I assume you mean painting the doors, not the frames. Probably easier to paint before hand then fit. Last time I painted my doors, I took them off to paint, which made it easier to do the frame at the same time.

edgex

Bigphil1474 wrote: »

- floor and walls tiled before fitting bathroom units? Again depends. If you have a free standing bath then you'd want them doing first. If you have a bath with sides which is sited into a corner, then you probably won't see under the bath anyway. My bathroom has laminate flooring up to the side of the bath, and is tiled from the bath upwards. Under the bath is just floorboards. Cupboards would probably sit better on an untiled wall.

Tile then cupboards
If you want/need to change the cupboards in the future, then there's no issue with where the tiles are & aren't