Askew Built

16/10/2024

Gorgeous Bathroom april 24

All houses have their idiosyncrasies, degrees of out of straight and square.
The older a house is the more likely there is damage and the more out of shape
Then there is the previous work that may have fixed a particular issue but over time has affected the rest of the house.
To build this bathroom in a house of more than 120 years, originally probably built as a two room dwelling then had additions we needed to work with the houses ‘idiosyncrasies’ to make the space as straight square and level as needed.
The house had been partially restumped at different times while some of the original wooden stumps remained but weren’t supporting the house any longer.
The house had been built when material was in short supply and codes were different, so the floor structure needed to be made stronger
Our aim was to do enough to be able to build a beautiful bathroom.
but not create problems for future work.
The big format tiles look great.
They were a challenge but Danny worked wonders, every tile was cut, very stressful.
Big thanks to Peter Church for the plumbing and consultations re potentially lowering the floor.
Greg Sutton for finding elegant solutions for the electrical work
Danny Jovanovic for the fantastic tiling.
George for his excellent carpentry
Felicity and Nigel for the design both plans and ongoing discussions and being great to work with (and getting a team together to take the bath outside).

25/02/2020

Working inside a house wall framing done the grey flooring down makes it look more finished.

25/08/2017

Details of stairs we built recently.
All hardwood treads
One set of steel stringers
Stairs landing and balustrade

21/07/2017

Bathroom. The house is built from fly ash blocks on a generic footing and has lots of movement. The tiles were loose

10/05/2017

We made the bathroom bigger by moving a wall and doubled the light by replacing the single window with two.
The owners wanted to keep the timber floor so we laid tiles over underlay and tile bed along the back wall under the bath and in the shower.
There is a Jarrah bench top on the vanity and shelves fitted between the original wall and the side wall of the floor to ceiling wardrobe that is accessed from the hall.
The vanity has stainless legs.
There is framing attached to the single skin vj wall to straighten the wall and hide the plumbing. This meant the mirror cabinet could be recessed into it.
The tiles on the other walls are attached to cement sheeting and there is a jarrah cap framing the tiled area.
There is a big free standing bath.
Its looks great

09/05/2017

09/05/2017

Weve been working at a dentists. One part of the job is cutting a hole in the 1st level floor installing timber to support the jiosts and then getting stairs fitted.