Advise on tile layout in bathroom

[marsaday1971]

Hello

Can i get peoples opinions on what to do with the wall in the pic. I am not sure where to put tiles, apart from in the shower area.

I was intending on tiling the whole wall, but have decided against that now.

Would you tile around the toilet area, upto the window cill height ?

I intend to use a whitish tile which may have a marble type pattern in it. I also intend to use lines of glass beads at points in the shower. What do you think to a 100mm wide line running down the middle, being dissected by the shower valve.

I am open to ideas.

 

[JMW]

Personally i'd tile the whole wall, including reveals/head/cill on window and possibly return at half height on the WC wall and on the other side too depending on what is going to be there. At the end of the days its your choice. Dont let the beams and running cuts on the right had side put you off.

 

[northstar]

agree with jmw do the whole wall.

 

[DHTiling]

I would do the whole wall as well... but would remove that paint first.

 

[Rich]

As above, I would tile the full wall.

The glass mosaics, are they flat? Just bare in mind that if you have them running behind anything you are going to have to get the shower flat back to the wall to make a water tight seal. If they are flat or slightly shaped you should be fine

 

[G Taylor Tiling]

Yes I Agree Tile the Whole Wall

 

[danny1]

Hi there just looking at pics, what type of enclosure to you intend to use as i think you will have problems with getting a enclosure in area you have tray.

 

[marsaday1971]

Enclosure is 2 pieces of glass made up for me. i havent stuck the tray down and put the valve in the wall not knowing the dimensions.

The glass at the front is 850mm wide and is 1800mm high. It will just miss the ceiling slope at the end.

If i have painted the wall, does this mean i cannot tile now ? There is no way i will be taking the pint off. it is the first watered down coat.

I am thinking to just do the enclosure and under the window.

I will see how it goes and may go for the whole thing however.

 

[JMW]

As it only looks like a mist coat you could sand it down and PVA prior to tiling should be fine.

 

[jay]

As it only looks like a mist coat you could sand it down and PVA prior to tiling should be fine.[/QUOTE

this might be worth a read http://www.tilersforums.com/tile-ad...-versus-primers.html?highlight=primers+vs+pva

and please dont use pva when tiling

 

[JMW]

That should have said Primer, well spotted and my mistake.

 

[jay]

no probs were all human

 

[marsaday1971]

If i just tile the shower area i can use stone. So this is a big problem solved for me because i have plastered the wall and didnt realise this reduced the weight capacity.

So i am just tiling the shower area and it makes life easier and cheaper as a bonus.