DumbStick 13 Posted July 23, 2013 Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 I wish I knew and was able to see but unfortunately I missed it. I could only get there at noon, so in 4 hours they had it basically set up. (The photo here is 8 hours at the end of the day). I wish I could have a few webcams taking time lapses going! No idea how all the plumbing works either really. I'm just relying on the installing Yamaha people and the plumber who is still there to get it right! The bath is an artificial marble that Yamaha seem rather proud of. It does look lovely. たっぷりの厚みで深みと美しさを表現。 バスルームの主役にふさわしい、厚み9mmの重厚感と透明 感を備えたバスタブです。汚れに強く美しさを守る「タフぴかコート」でお手入れ簡単。キズがつきにくく、細かいキズなら磨くだけで簡単にリニューアルできます。 大理石模様の「エクランクオリア」 http://www.yamaha-living.co.jp/product/bath/story/care.html Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 My guess would be that it's basically panels that clip together to make a waterproof box with all of the lights and functions already installed. I'd be surprised if the water pipes weren't hooked up when it was installed, though they mightn't be connected to the plumbing header and drain line just yet. I think that's right. I also missed when ours was put in (which looks a lot like Dumbstick's, minus jet features), but the walls are pretty clearly panels that were fitted into place, then had silicon sealant applied at the joints. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Modern ones don't have taps, ours doesn't either, it all comes out the circulator so you don't need taps. That said, having a dribble of cold water onto your toe from a tap is more satisfying than scrolling through a menu on a remote controller and pressing a "add 10L of cold" button and having it emerge under the surface. Sometimes the old way of doing things has its merits. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted July 23, 2013 Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 I can see that being the case! Link to post Share on other sites
fukdane 2 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I saw one being delivered to a new house recently actually. It did indeed seem to come in panels with things sticking out of them and the bath seperately. Couldn't see what was going on inside of course. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 When I built my old house (now going on 30 years ago!) we bought a spa bath for the main bathroom. It came as a single fibreglass shell, with plumbing, electrics and pump all ready to plug into wall socket, drain and water pipes. Fit onto a timber frame, which was then clad with blue board and tiled. No silicone at all, except around the tile/bath joint on the walls, and that only as insurance, as the bath had a lip that was expected to stop water going through to the wall. Sadly, ex inherited that place as part of divorce settlement, and has since been sold. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 The bath unit has been installed. I missed the main bit which was a bit disappointing, I wanted to see how it arrived and they put it together. My goodness....look at all those code violations... Looking good Dumbstick!! Quite envious!........I have a love/hate relationship with my onsen. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted July 24, 2013 Author Share Posted July 24, 2013 Apparently, flooring is starting to go down from today. I find some of order and timing of doing some things a bit odd (like, work on the ceilings hasn't finished), but then again I have no experience and know nothing and so I'll just let them get on with doing what they're doing. As long as they don't scratch or dent it etc, I'm cool. Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I wouldn't worry. If its like my friends house, the flooring was covered well literally minutes after it had been laid down. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 What flooring did you go with in the end dumbstick? Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 'Teak' and a much darker 'Wenge' for the bedrooms. Not solid but a veneer. I'm going to go take a look and see how things are going today. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 I like darker floors. Got to be careful with the wallpaper and stuff if you don't want it to be a bat cave though! Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted July 26, 2013 Author Share Posted July 26, 2013 Funny you should mention that. I was originally thinking some darker wallpapers, but more and more thinking mostly white or near white (in terms of just colour) would be best. Don't have to decide on that lot for another month or so though. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 I like the look of darker floors as well but you need to clean them more often than lighter colours! Looking forward to seeing what it looks like Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 We went for darker flooring and white textured wall paper. Then buying furniture to decorate the rooms. Kitchen units and cupboards are all white. Living/dining table cupboards TV stand etc will be dark wood. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Sounds good. I think the days of complicated flowery type wallpapers is gone. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 \What kind of texture you go for snowdude? I remember looking at a catalogue of what there was. The head spun with so many options and seeing them on 10cmx10cm samples doesn't really give you a big picture. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 \What kind of texture you go for snowdude? I remember looking at a catalogue of what there was. The head spun with so many options and seeing them on 10cmx10cm samples doesn't really give you a big picture. Its a kind of a bumpy bitty type of texture if that makes any sense at all. Kind of like millions of tiny interlocked squares all together to form a bumpy textuure. Sorry that is about the best way I can describe it. If I can find the sample we had I wiill take a picture of it and post it. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted July 29, 2013 Author Share Posted July 29, 2013 The default wallpaper our builders usually use for the tateuri houses they do was awful. Well maybe awful is going to far, but certainly far from being very nice. And to have it in every single room! Oh no no no! Link to post Share on other sites
kkk 7 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Is wallpaper a relatively new idea here in Japan? Traditional Japanese houses often have that rough sandpaper like ( ) thing going on.... horrid as it is. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 The default wallpaper our builders usually use for the tateuri houses they do was awful. Well maybe awful is going to far, but certainly far from being very nice. And to have it in every single room! Oh no no no! Yeah Japanese standatd wallpaper is not good that is why we chose our own. Downstairs same paper but changing room and toilet is different. Then different upstairs but all of them are a white/beige colour but with different patturns. The ceilings also have different patturn kind of like a woven patturm which should contrast nicely with the walls. Link to post Share on other sites
1 4 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 I have given myself some grazed elbows and other parts of my body on some of that traditional Japanese walling before now. Ouch. Not good when drunk Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Bath looks cool, dumbstick. More photos if poss! Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted August 3, 2013 Share Posted August 3, 2013 Went to see my house today. Windows are nearly all in. The roof all finished. Wiring has started. They put the bath in today so was able to see it iin before all the panels cover it up. The bathroom is just about finished and looks good. Its a green bath with white walls and one green wall on the shower side. Like dumbsticks house they have put the bath in first before anything else. They will also be putting down the floor soon before the rest which I aso thought was strange but obvious they know what they are doing. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted August 3, 2013 Author Share Posted August 3, 2013 The flooring one is curious isn't it. All ours is down now. But it's all completely covered up and so I haven't been able to see any of it. All our insulation is in now and the inside walls covered up. I'm actually away for best part of 2 weeks now but apparently work on the outside siding will happen perhaps this coming week. Exciting seeing it come together. Link to post Share on other sites
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