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Accessible Ablutions 6 - Costs and Components


Ferdinand

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This is the last post in my series, with details of a couple of finishing touches and details of what I bought and what it cost.

 

Summary

 

For drive-by readers, the total cost came to just on £2200 including VAT, or about £2500 if the project had replaced everything - I kept the washbasin, vanity unit, storage unit and mirror.

 

There is also potential to reclaim VAT on the approximate £200 spent on specific accessibility pieces such as the shower seat and grab rails. 

 

Counting up the wall tiles in the bathroom, I find that no fewer than eleven from about 60 now have holes drilled in them. That is the smallest number of spares I will need to buy now to restore the bathroom to should I need to do so later, of for example an elderly person dies or moves into a care home, and the property needs to be sold on. A thing worth bearing in mind; these are not projects where 2 or 3 spares will be sufficient ... "for a want of 15 tiles the bathroom was gutted".

 

In practise in this case I have umpteen spares as someone gave me 10sqm of tiles when I only needed about 6sqm.

 

Extras

 

I added a shower caddy storage unit. These figures do no include fluffing.

 

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Lists of Costs

 

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List of Suppliers

 

Most of the products above should be easy to locate.

 

Here is a list of clickable deep links that I have available.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01CC6UNZG/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B017O89SG2/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01CC6UNZG/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074T41X9F/
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Modern-Rainfall-Square-Twin-Head-Exposed-Thermostatic-Bar-Shower-Mixer-Chrome-54/232674611695?var=532155236037&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20190212102350%26meid%3D48370791d06f43a1972ba71707e98bf6%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D332130829568%26itm%3D532155236037&_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lillangen-washbasin-cab-1-door-2-end-units-white-s09188045/

https://www.tiletown.co.uk/en

http://probablythebestpubsintheworld.co.uk/

 

Wrap up

 

That's all folks. Ask any questions below, and I will do my best to answer.

 

If you are between about Junction 24 and Junction 28 on the M1, check out http://probablythebestpubsintheworld.co.uk/ - a local company with about 5 eating pubs, which are decent quality and very good value. And have good beers - my local one has Abbot and Taylor's Landlord.

 

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