Shower causes damp

[JoceAndChris]

You both hate the tiles? :lol: Lots of people hate the tiles - they're very 80s. Then some people come here (these people are usually from the continent) and talk eloquently about their delicacy, and ambiance, and I can't stop laughing and thinking how funny the world is. The fact that they're peacocks will come to be very appropriate. I look at them and think "The tide is turning for you - another 20 years and you'll be respected as emblematic of a very specific decade"

When we moved into our London flat, we ripped out the 80s tiles and replaced with the ubiquitous travertine. All through the process my neighbour crowed about how he still had his original tiles intact and he wouldn't change them for the world. At the time I thought he was mad, now, I take his point.

AMc - I was chatting to my M.I.L. about the very problem you describe. She says if you cut the curtain so just 2 inches hang below the rim of the bath, and weight that hem with weighted cord the problem disappears.

 

[Flyfisher]

Joce/AMc - I've seen shower curtains with the bottom hem filled with something akin to lead shot but I can't remember where. Probably a hotel somewhere. I distinctly remember it because it initially felt odd to draw a flimsy-looking curtain that was actually quite heavy. Not sure if you can buy them like that or if you'd have to DIY, but it did the trick.

 

[Cloudscape]

The "thing on the ceiling" is for hanging a lamp on, isn't it? I have had a couple of wrought-iron lamps before with leaf shapes exactly like that. Is there a hole, near the base of the hook, where wires could have come through? If not, maybe the previous owners hung a candle lamp there?

 

[FamilyWiggs]

with tiles I haven't made up my mind about.

I have made my mind up about them - not pretty!

I'm not sure that everything that is stylistically representative of a particular decade/period is always worth preserving. I'm thinking particularly of the fetching nylon rubber-backed flame effect carpet we ripped out of the dining room shortly after moving in... :shock:

But it is a difficult call. Are there some things that are either so awful (like my carpet) or ubiquitous that we can agree not to preserve them without pained debate?

 

[JoceAndChris]

I'm thinking particularly of the fetching nylon rubber-backed flame effect carpet we ripped out of the dining room shortly after moving in...

Murderer. I've called SPAB- they'll be round with their whips and chains later on. The flame effect was very rare, and is Grade 1 * don't you know.

The "thing on the ceiling" is for hanging a lamp on, isn't it? I have had a couple of wrought-iron lamps before with leaf shapes exactly like that. Is there a hole, near the base of the hook, where wires could have come through? If not, maybe the previous owners hung a candle lamp there?

Thanks Cloudscape! It must have hung a lamp as you say. It was here when the previous owner moved in in the 80s, there was no electricity here then so Jack Yeomans, who was here though the 60s and 70s, must have washed by oil lamp in the old bath that was here then!