My 1st Job Half tiled wall around bath- want to tile the rest as adding shower. Advice on prep please

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• Jan 27, 2019

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Hi,

We have a new build and the walls around the bath are half tiled. We now want to add a shower and so need to tile the rest of the wall up to the ceiling. It is likely the wall is just straight plasterboard? And would you recommend we use a full tanking kit for the half wall prep?

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• Jan 27, 2019

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I wouldn't bother tanking the top half of the bottom half is tiled already without tanking as that is really the most important area. Can you not re tile ?

 

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• Jan 27, 2019

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I would tank and re tile the whole bath wall

 

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Post a picture it may help us give you the correct advice . Kop

 

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Do you think they won’t have tanked the bottom half then?? Here’s a pic.

 

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• Jan 27, 2019

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I very much doubt it for that amount of tiling!

 

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paint

 

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There's no shower there anyway so I wouldn't worry about the tanking. Remove the paint tho

 

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• Jan 27, 2019

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Localtiler said:

There's no shower there anyway so I wouldn't worry about the tanking. Remove the paint tho

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They are looking to add the shower.
May be an option to remove the new build tiling, prepare the whole area ( either by tanking or Wedi boards) then retiling around.

 

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• Jan 27, 2019

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Appologies I missed that!

 

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• Jan 27, 2019

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For the sake of 10 tiles stripping it off and starting again would be best way, hard to tell from pic but does the corner of the bath comes past the window? If it does its a non starter anyway as there will be nothing to attach a screen to, unless i spoze you could use a shower curtain but they're not the best..

 

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Andystiletiling said:

For the sake of 10 tiles stripping it off and starting again would be best way, hard to tell from pic but does the corner of the bath comes past the window? If it does its a non starter anyway as there will be nothing to attach a screen to, unless i spoze you could use a shower curtain but they're not the best..

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May be putting the shower at the other end with new direct feed.

 

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• Jan 27, 2019

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Keep in mind (if the shower is going opposite end to the tap end) that the user will be standing quite far away from the shower due to the slope of the Bath back rest. Showers are meant to go at the tap end of a Bath.

As a DIY job, I suppose you could just tile above the existing tiles. A professional would want you to strip out and start again, including tanking.

My opinion is to do it once and do it right.

 

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timeless john said:

May be putting the shower at the other end with new direct feed.

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Get you with your plumbing talk!

 

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• Jan 27, 2019

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It’s moderating all this Plumber talk!
Comes with designing bathrooms properly over the last 40+ years. I just get professionals in to do the work.
Me I just tile!