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Home > Search for DIY Projects by Trade Type > The Complete DIYer’s Guide to Plumbing Including How To Projects, Tutorials and Videos > Bathroom and Plumbing Related Projects – Your Complete Solution for Learning How To Earth Bond in Bathrooms, Demist Mirrors and Remove Silicone Sealant

Bathroom and Plumbing Related Projects – Your Complete Solution for Learning How To Earth Bond in Bathrooms, Demist Mirrors and Remove Silicone Sealant

The essential bathroom projects to get your bathroom looking fabulous and working well. We have a range of projects that you need to do to get your bathroom looking great. We cover practical jobs such as ensuring that all your applications are earth bonded correctly and are therefore safe to how to remove sealant or how to fit a demisting mirror.

  • Demisting Mirrors

    Demisting mirrors - how to prevent bathroom mirrors from misting up - How to stop bathroom mirrors fogging up. Methods for demisting mirrors and stopping condensation forming on bathroom mirrors


  • Earth Bonding in Bathrooms

    Electrical - earth bonding in bathrooms - In this DIY project find Information about earth bonding, electrical earthing, earth bonding regulations and earth bonding in the bathroom


  • Removing Sealant

    Sealant removal - How to remove sealant from around baths, basins, toilets, worktops and other areas with sealant remover so that you can reapply fresh sealant


This section contains the projects that are essential to finishing your bathroom project. We cover a range of topics from earth bonding bathroom appliances and pipes to fitting demisting mirrors. We also show you how to remove silicon sealant.

We have a huge range of plumbing projects that will be relevant to any work that you might be doing on your bathroom. We have projects that cover all these topics:

  • Baths, Basins and Sinks
  • Showers and Wetrooms
  • Toilets
  • Taps
  • Pipes and Pipe Work
  • Wastes Pipes and Systems

The projects in these sections cover every aspect of the plumbing that you might need to do on your next DIY Project.

Plumbing in basin waste
Plumbing a basin waste system in

The Best Bathroom Gadgets and Accessories for a Bathroom

We regularly attend tradeshows, in fact we get invited to present our Tricks of the Trade Theatre at many of them. While we are at these trade shows we often see some amazing new inventions and ideas.

Here is our pick of the best appliances and gadgets for your Bathroom – no bathroom is complete without at least a couple of these!

Bathroom TV Mirror

This is complete luxury which you can justify as being a little bit practical! When it is not on it is a mirror which every bathroom cannot have too many of, but you can also relax in the bath and catch up with your latest show or keep up to date with the news in the shower.

There is a little wiring involved, so being in a bathroom you will need to get a competent electrician to do this for you. Plan for this because retrofitting could be prohibitively expensive, as all the wiring needs to be run inside the studwork.

Bathroom TV
Watch TV in the Shower with a TV Mirror (image: Sarason TV)

Get Creative with your Basin

The first rule of bathroom design is to get a design and stick with it, which we heartily agree with. However….

There is some amazing bathroom ware out there. If you can build in a really funky basin that fits with your overall design you will have an amazing talking point. We have seen lots of amazing bathrooms sinks, but the runaway winner has to be the aquarium sink:

Fish tank sink
Amazing Aquarium bathroom sink!

We have never actually seen this sink, but found it on the internet when searching for other designs that we have seen, but it had to be in our list just to demonstrate how crazy you could be!

Steam Shower

Even the Romans knew the benefits of steam! You can get yourself a shower cubicle that will fit in to most bathrooms with a built in steam generator. You can enjoy the benefits of a steam room in your own home.

Steam shower cubicle
Get the benefits of a steam room in your own home with a steam shower cubicle

Feature Bath

We’ve already covered the “feature basin” so now it’s the turn of the bath! As with the basin there are lots of amazing designs out there so it is worth shopping around to see if there is something that will work with your overall design.

If you want to go for something truly amazing you could try the carbon fibre Hammock Bath by Splinter works in Bristol. Price? If you have to ask you can’t afford it!

Follow the link to see more pictures – the waste even makes letting out the plug look cool.

Carbon fibre hammock bath
The amazing carbon fibre hammock bath by Splinter Works

Demisting Mirror

These are pretty mainstream nowadays but they are still a fantastic luxury, and invaluable if you are in a rush; no more smearing the mirror with a corner of a towel to try and use the mirror.

These will need to be wired in so will need a little forethought and planning, and is not a job that a DIYer should do themselves.

Demisting mirror
The essential luxury – a demisting mirror (image: Drench)

Shower Step

A simple and practical solution for getting to your feet easily while in the shower. These are ideal for ladies shaving or just for washing.

They are really easy to fit, even retrospectively and will not break the bank either. It’s a great project and once you start to use it you’ll be pleased you went to the effort.

Shower step
Shower Step or Wetroom Foot Rest – a great DIY Project

Under Floor Heating

Under floor heating is now relatively common place, but it is still a real luxury in a bathroom. You have the choice of fitting electric under floor heating, or you could have a water based system.

Whichever you opt for you will not regret it as the bathroom will be warmer and drier as a result. Getting out of the bath will be a pleasant experience even on the coldest winter day.

Electric heating pipework
Under floor heating is a fantastic benefit in a bathroom (image: Freeflo Plumbing)

Bathroom Lighting Ideas

LED lighting has meant that it is now possible to have the more amazing lighting effects all over the home and the bathroom is no exception. You can have “stars” in the ceiling or lighting that you can alter to suit your mood.

Creative bathroom lighting setup
Amazing lighting in a new bathroom is now a must

There has never been a better time to do a bathroom makeover project. There is so much choice – and we did not even get into the taps, which are a topic of their own. There is no reason to have a boring, functional bathroom any more. Nowadays a bathroom is a place you actually want to spend time in.

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