Days 3 & 4 - plotting and plumbing

We took a bit of time out on Day 3 to celebrate child no.3's new job, hence the combined post. First thing on Day 3 was to uncover the toilet and cistern that have been waiting patiently to be installed for a fair few years now. We ideally want to shuffle the loo over a bit because the new shower unit is wider than the old bath, but that depends on where all the fittings are, and we need to know how deep to build the false wall behind it.

Having unboxed the pan, we took it in to the bathroom to see where we could site it in relation to the existing soil pipe. The design of the pan meant that we kind of had to straddle it over the soil pipe, which means we don't get much sideways wiggle room, sadly. We also test sited the shower again and decided that a sideways brick on a decent mortar bed would give us enough space below for the drain. Both of those activities contributed to deciding on the false wall depths. We also decided to take up the old lino tiles to allow the shower bed to be flat and they came up so easily with the little reciprocating saw that we decided to take them all up.
Next job is to get the copper plumbing in place, so we know where to break the vertical studs in the wall. However, I took the opportunity (after removing a few floor tiles, one of which was a complete pig) to dispose of the now-surplus-to-requirements plastic pipe that we were going to use to plumb in the shower that never made it. You can see the pipes poking out of the wall at just below bath height in the first photo below. The HippoBag is looking pretty full and we have called for the pickup. Because of the nature of a bath, there is technically a decent amount of space in it, but it's all under the bath.

Dave spent most of the day cutting, dry fitting, unfitting, fluxxing and soldering copper pipe. Everything is cut and in place for the basin, the shower, the toilet cistern and joined back to the outside tap. The right-hand wall is completed and wet tested (he hasn't lost his touch, no leaks) and the fluxxing and soldering will continue tomorrow. I couldn't make much contribution to any of that, so apart from finishing off getting up the lino tiles from the basin and loo areas, I wasn't much help.

Oh yes, Dave had to make his daily pilgrimage to ToolStation for some kinky connectors to allow one run of pipe pass over the other.