Avoiding that unsightly step up in your new bathroom renovation
In this video, we show you a simple hack we use to avoid those unsightly step ups into bathrooms when completing a bathroom renovation in an old Queenslander Home or an old Workers Cottage
Video transcript – Avoiding step ups in bathrooms
Hey guys here we are at the Wooloowin project
again, just wanted to take you through this massive ensuite
This gorgeous ensuite. What I wanted to discuss at the moment
is, we are just prior to waterproofing stage, so the plastering’s been done
We’re just about to put the cornice up top, and then we’re going to waterproof. Once the waterproofing
Has been done, we need to put a wet bed. The wet bed is usually around 40-50mm
To all the tiles and all that to flow
Towards this drain that you can see in the middle here because we’ve got living area downstairs
Now, that creates a step up into the bathroom, you’ve probably seen them when
you walk into a bathroom you’ve got that 40mm step up. To me, that’s
a bit of an issue. I don’t like this step ups. So what we’ve done in this
particular project, you can see through the walk-in robe there
what we’ve done is that we’ve actually elevated that section. I’ll walk
over to here, now you can see what we’ve done is
put 19mm ply down as battens, and we’ve laid them
directly on top of the joists underneath, we haven’t bothered taking the flooring out
as we are going to have carpet through here. And then on top of that we are going to put yellow tongue flooring
To allow for carpet. So what thats done is with your 19mm + 19mm
we’ve managed to bring it up 38mm, just under the 40mm, with the carpet
you’re not really going to notice, and that will give us a really smooth step going
straight from here, into the ensuite. There’s no step
up or anything, and the whole of this upstairs level, and we’ve got another bathroom
as well over there. The whole upstairs level will all be
one level, no step ups, no set downs, or anything like that. So that’s one way we get
around it in these older Queenslander homes and cottages
Have a good one guys!