When do i tile my bathroom???

Darren046

Good evening,

I am re-doing my bathroom and my wife wants the walls and floor tiled. I have now reached a stage where i am unsure how to continue as many friends are telling me different, so thought i would see what the opinion is on here.

The bathroom is stripped out, and ready to either

A. Fix new bath, toilet and sink in - and then tile

or

B. Tile - then fix new bath, toilet and sink in

Can anyone advise me on which way is best? Or is there an option C ? Many thanks, Darren

baby_fuzz

depending on your style of bath, I'd put the bath in, then tile (no need to tile under the bath unless it's one of those posh standing ones), then loo and sink on top of tiling.

keystone

Tank walls as necessary for tiling around shower area.

Fit bath.

Then basin (sinks go in kitchens) and loo to get the plumbing right.

Then take basin and loo out and tile.

Thats the principal. Some questions:

Have you got a shower? What is the wall substrate - plaster? plasterboard? cement board?

What is the floor made of?

You may have to make changes in these areas before you even think of fitting the bath.

Cheers

wallbash

(sinks go in kitchens)

Glad we got the right terminology, could be in real trouble:D

keystone

wallbash wrote: »

Glad we got the right terminology, could be in real trouble:D

Its a right b....r planning for the drainer when someone specifies a sink for a 6 feet squared bathroom.

Cheers

brig001

Agree with above, but when I did our bathroom, I fitted a batten to the wall one tile's distance above the where the bath would go. Then I tiled above the batten, removed the batten, fit the bath and then did the last row above the bath.
HTH, Brian.

baby_fuzz

wallbash wrote: »

Glad we got the right terminology, could be in real trouble:D

sink ; basin
potato ; leek...

wallbash

As keystone rightly posted , the ideal way to proceed.

BUT and there is always a but, if you have alternative facilities. I'm lucky now, en-suite /family bathroom and downstairs cloakroom. But when I started , one bathroom with one WC it was out and in !! in the same day , or a bucket in the garden.

keystone

wallbash wrote: »

As keystone rightly posted , the ideal way to proceed.

BUT and there is always a but, if you have alternative facilities. I'm lucky now, en-suite /family bathroom and downstairs cloakroom. But when I started , one bathroom with one WC it was out and in !! in the same day , or a bucket in the garden.

Yes it ain't ever as straighforward as it seems. I did a bathroom not so long ago that was 1.6m x 1.6m with an ancient cast bath, a 50s (large) WHB that overhung both bath and edge of loo and the loo was an old high level washdown thing. All the supply pipes were in 3/4 inch barrel! One day was not an option as the bath had to be turned 180 degrees to fit a shower, all pipework had to be renewed. Luckily they both went to work. The loo had to come out every morning to provide space to work and be reinstalled every evening before I went home. No alternative facilities in the house. Including repiping all the way to the tanks (bore was down to 1/8th inch in places due to rust), wall tiling floor to ceiling and tiling the floor (which had to be replaced as it was rotten) it took just under ten days. Lovely job.

Cheers

keystone

But I digress - back to the OPs question. Its impossible to connect up your supply and waste pipework under the floor if you've already tiled it. Also its impossible to get your tile layout done properly if you haven't fixed the position of bath, WHB and loo accurately first. Wall tiling should have equal cuts either side of window and at corners, either a grout line or centre of tile over the centre of taps and centre of loo. You should also aim to get a grout line or centre of tile in the middle of each wall.

Yes tile down to the bath once its fixed to the wall but leave less than a tile height for the batten and then cut each one to the bath thus ensuring a snug fit. Bath edges are rarely flat so they can't be plumb to the wall. So tiling the wall first before fitting the bath leaves a mahusive gap that has to be sealed and the bigger the gap the more likely is silicone failure.

Leave the last row of wall tiles until after the floor has been tiled then pop them in over the edge of the floor tiles. Bead of coloured silicone that matches the grout can then be applied to the interface.

HTH

Cheers

Darren046

keystone wrote: »

Tank walls as necessary for tiling around shower area.

Fit bath.

Then basin (sinks go in kitchens) and loo to get the plumbing right.

Then take basin and loo out and tile.

Thats the principal. Some questions:

Have you got a shower? What is the wall substrate - plaster? plasterboard? cement board?

What is the floor made of?

You may have to make changes in these areas before you even think of fitting the bath.

Cheers

Thanks for the replies. Walls are plasterboarded and are ready to be re-tiled after stripping the old ones off. Floor is floor boards at the min but was putting in 18mm plyboard to lay new tiles on. The bath, sink (i mean basin.. ooops) and toilet are a straight (ish) swap like for like.