Order of bathroom fit

almeida24

I know this question has been asked many times before but everyone has a different bathroom so was hoping for suggestions for my own. I have completely ripped everything out of my bathroom except my toilet. The reason I left this in was so builders could use it but now I'm ready to do the bathroom this can come out.

I need the walls plastering because the toilet and bathroom were separate so I have made the two rooms into one which has left a bit of a mess of the walls.

I've also been told to get my bath fitted during the first fix before the walls have been plastered and tiled because the width of my bathroom is so small that there is hardly any lee-way, is this a good idea as my plumber has told me it's not "because you could end up with tiles overhanging the bath if its not square". Not quite sure what he means there though?

Therefore, I need the following:

Plastering
Tiling walls
Tiling floor
First fix (maybe including fitting of bath)
Second fix (fitting the sink, shower and toilet)

I think that's all. I think the main issue is whether to fit the bath before plastering or not?

Leif

At the risk of stating the obvious, there are many sizes of bath.

almeida24

Leif wrote: »

At the risk of stating the obvious, there are many sizes of bath.

Yes I know that but I've already got my bath and it does fit but it's very tight.

Ruski

Have you got 10mm leeway end-to-end?

almeida24

Ruski wrote: »

Have you got 10mm leeway end-to-end?

Erm, I'll have to double check i'm not 100% sure. Will check tonight and get back to you.

Ruski

almeida24 wrote: »

Erm, I'll have to double check i'm not 100% sure. Will check tonight and get back to you.

Well - if there is then just go ahead and get it skimmed before fitting the suite as a skim (I'm presuming you're just getting a skim over existing plaster here) will be less than 10mm and your bath will fit in very snugly.

Even if there isn't - it's not the end of the world. You can 'channel out' the plaster to accommodate the oversized bath - but this is where your plumber is correct - anthing more than 5mm channel at the tap end and you'd probably run into difficulties at the tiling stage.

HTH

Russ

jimbo_the_jetset

I was always on the understanding that it is best to fit the bath and then tile, so that the tiles butt to the top of the bath. Then even with a failed seal water is less likely to pour on the floor??

tpt

Plastering **
First fix including fitting of bath (but not the bath panel)
Tiling walls
Tiling floor
Second fix (fitting the sink, shower and toilet)

Be careful with plastering - if your fully tiling is not only not needed, its a waste of money if the room is already plasterboarded. what are the existing walls? have they been stripped of the old plaster\render?

If you do tile a plastered wall, then you have to be a little careful which tiles you pick as some are too heavy for skim - especially reskimmed walls.

Tucker

As per tpt, I wouldn't plaster unless it was essential.

Just get the surfaces roughly level and tile.

I tiled mine straight onto the plasterboard. Otherwise it's a 2 or 3mm skim of plaster holding the tiles up??

A plasterer I know was telling me it's pointless and people get him to skim them and whilst he does it, he always advocates it's a complete waste to skim then fully tile a bathroom.

tpt

plasterboard is far better -it will hold 32kg m2, plaster only 20kg m2 - have to watch out in wet areas for either though, you should be using aquaboard or a backer board (which incidentally can support 50kg m2)

almeida24

Please see below for a few images of the walls in my bathroom. As I said earlier, the bathroom used to be two rooms with a separate toilet but I have made it into one, that's why you can see a big line of plaster missing where the wall was taken out and also plasterboard where the door has been removed.

Please adivse on whether I need the room skimming, plaster boarding etc.

Thanks