Fitting a new bath

dickibobboy

Good Evening,


Just after a couple of pointers from personal experience.



Bathroom is just an empty shell at the minute with the bath ready to go in over the next few days so the tiler can be arranged to come out and do the floor / walls.



The bath came with brackets to help secure it to the wall, i'm sure these are enough (along with silicone along the edges before it gets secured in) but i read some articles about people using wood along the wall edges for the bath support as extra, worth it? (the bath legs don't have anywhere to screw down unlike some i've seen)


Tap Holes - Do i drill these and fit the tap before the tiler comes? It would be easier to fit before hand however i don't mind the fiddling after drilling and fitting them when it's done.


Bath Panel & Leveling - I've not had chance to unpack the wooden panel yet. It has the main panel and a floor plinth that screw together. It has a height specified when i bought it. Are these often adjustable? My thought is that if i put the bath at the height of the panel spec then the tiles along with adhesive raise the floor up an amount can i just screw the plinth at the measured height once the floor is down?



Finally, i'll need to build a bit of a frame for the panel to secure to, as there will be a floor piece i need is it not a problem to put this in after the tiler has been or before? (obviously i probably will need to drill through some of the tiles depending on how far some go under the bath.



Anything anyone can advise on that i have missed?



Thanks.

Mr.Generous

Much easier to mark height of bath on the wall, add the height of a tile (less about 10m to allow for cutting) then mark again . Check how the tiles will line up against window / ceiling / floor and make a judgement about how much tile to have above bath edge so you get a reasonable tile size elsewhere (especially top and bottom tiles in the room).



We then tile the room so not working over a bath. We just leave the single layer that goes in above the bath off until the bath is in, then do this last. We grout it above bath at this stage too. We always add some extra support to a bath, an extra foot from the old bath, some timber supports or something else (a kitchen unit leg or two is easy). Tiler would have to come back after bath fitted, but it would also make his job easier.