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Tile around or under toilet?

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We're going to be doing the bathroom soon, new suite and tiles. This is the only bathroom/toilet in the house so obviously will be a pain when its being installed. But do we tile under or around the toilet? How long would it take for the grout to dry to be able to put the toilet on top to use? Obviously under looks nicer.

Thanks in advance :)
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  • anotherbaldrick
    anotherbaldrick Posts: 2,335 Forumite
    We're going to be doing the bathroom soon, new suite and tiles. This is the only bathroom/toilet in the house so obviously will be a pain when its being installed. But do we tile under or around the toilet? How long would it take for the grout to dry to be able to put the toilet on top to use? Obviously under looks nicer.

    Thanks in advance :)

    Depends on how good you are at very neatly cutting the floor tile around the pedestal, I did mine and just took a bit of time to get it right. Assuming you are going to drill into the tile to fix the pan putting tiles under, give it 24 hours but you could still use the pan unfixed if you were careful not to shuffle about.
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  • keystone
    keystone Posts: 10,916 Forumite
    edited 21 July 2013 at 8:54PM
    Always under the loo and the basin pedestal. Make allowances when you do the supply plumbing and waste pipework. If you ever want to change either then you'll inevitably find that the porcelain profile will be different one way or the other.

    and don't forget that its a requirement to have a working loo available at the end of each and every day for an inhabited property whilst the works are in progress. It doesn't need to be fully flushing though - the pan in place and a bucket of water will be sufficient. You could, however, have a chemical portaloo on the premises or move out for the duration.

    Cheers
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  • jayyar66
    jayyar66 Posts: 168 Forumite
    Ditto to KS's comments . . . . :)
  • neneromanova
    neneromanova Posts: 3,051 Forumite
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    keystone wrote: »
    Always under the loo and the basin pedestal. Make allowances when you do the supply plumbing and waste pipework. If you ever want to change either then you'll inevitably find that the porcelain profile will be different one way or the other.

    and don't forget that its a requirement to have a working loo available at the end of each and every day for an inhabited property whilst the works are in progress. It doesn't need to be fully flushing though - the pan in place and a bucket of water will be sufficient. You could, however, have a chemical portaloo on the premises or move out for the duration.

    Cheers

    Really? Even if it's you doing the work yourself?

    I'm guessing you start early in the morning, then by afternoon you "install the toilet so you can "use" it and the next day you then secure it in?
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  • keystone
    keystone Posts: 10,916 Forumite
    Really? Even if it's you doing the work yourself?
    Oh right. Actually you'll probably get away with it then.
    I'm guessing you start early in the morning, then by afternoon you "install the toilet so you can "use" it and the next day you then secure it in?
    Thats a very simplistic and if I might say so, naive view. Sorry to say it. You'll very quickly find it won't work that way if you are stripping the room right back to basics and starting again especially when you work out your plan for removing the old, replumbing, piping as required, tiling walls, tiling floor etc.

    Cheers
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  • neneromanova
    neneromanova Posts: 3,051 Forumite
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    keystone wrote: »
    Oh right. Actually you'll probably get away with it then.

    Thats a very simplistic and if I might say so, naive view. Sorry to say it. You'll very quickly find it won't work that way if you are stripping the room right back to basics and starting again especially when you work out your plan for removing the old, replumbing, piping as required, tiling walls, tiling floor etc.

    Cheers

    Sorry I just meant the toilet would be "loose" but still use able, then remove it and tile with everything else in the room gone the day before. I know it's not a 1 day job :D Although, that would be nice :rotfl:
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  • 27col
    27col Posts: 6,554 Forumite
    It's a no brainer. Tile under the wc whatever the problems. For one thing, if the toilet accidentally ever got broken you would not have to replace it with exactly the same model. As there would be no toilet " footprint" cut out of the tiles. I am speaking from experience here.
    You know what they say. "If you don't learn from the mistakes of others, you are an idiot. If you do not learn from your own mistakes then you are a bloody idiot"
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    Just so long as I don't want much.
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