Strip-out
Disconnecting and removing the existing fixtures, capping off safely, and leaving the space ready for the demolition and screed.
Rough-in, coordination with the waterproofer and tiler, and fit-off. The plumbing side of a renovation, done in the right order.
A bathroom renovation goes wrong in the plumbing more often than in the tiling, and almost always because of sequence. Wastes set in the wrong place, a rough-in that does not suit the vanity that was ordered, or a floor waste that finishes proud of the finished floor level are all cheap to avoid and expensive to correct once the screed is down.
Brigs Plumbing handles the plumbing side and works to the schedule of whoever else is on the job. Photographs of completed bathrooms in Alexandra Hills and Camp Hill on this site are Niles' own work.
Detail
Disconnecting and removing the existing fixtures, capping off safely, and leaving the space ready for the demolition and screed.
Setting the water and waste points to the actual fixtures being installed — which means having the fixture schedule before the walls close, not after.
Set to the finished floor level so the floor drains to the waste rather than to the door.
Working to the waterproofer's sequence so penetrations are made and set before the membrane goes on, not cut through it afterwards.
Tapware, mixers, showers, toilet, vanity and any freestanding bath, connected and tested once the tiling is finished.
The same process for a laundry — tub, machine connections, and the waste and water points for a new benchtop layout.
A job Niles has done
Every photo on this site is work Brigs Plumbing has completed, not stock photography.
Questions
No. Brigs Plumbing does the plumbing. Tiling, waterproofing, cabinetry and electrical are other trades, and you are better served by people who do those things properly than by one contractor who does all of them approximately.
Before the fixtures are ordered, ideally. The rough-in depends on what is actually going in, and changing a fixture after rough-in means opening a wall.
Two visits for most jobs — a day or so for strip-out and rough-in, then a day for fit-off after tiling. The gap between them depends on the other trades, not on us.
Usually, but it depends on where the existing soil pipe runs and what is under the floor. It is one of the first things worth checking, because the answer changes what a layout can be.
Nearby
Describe the problem on the phone. If it can be sorted without a visit, it will be.
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