Am i doing the right thing here?

[skeg]

Hi there,

I'm not a tiler by trade really but have had some good tiling courses under my belt from a year or so ago. These were done as my current employment has had an uncertain future for a while and tiling was something i felt i could do if my job was ever to fall through at some point. As a result of this i have only done a few jobs when they present themselves to me and when each job arises i find myself having to refresh and research on the correct things to do so i know i'm doing the correct things.

The job i'm looking at at the moment is an en suite bathroom and 2nd family bathroom. Both are going to have showers whilst one has the bath as well.

These are my thoughts/questions:-

Floors are chipboard but solid so am going to overlay in brickbond pattern with Hardibacker board 6mm screwed and stuck down with a slow set (i'm a slow worker :smilewinkgrinflexi bagged adhesive with 3mm or so gaps and tape covering all joins. Tiles to be used are 300x300 matt finished ceramic fixed down with the same flexi adhesive with 5mm gaps for grout.

The shower cubicles are still in construction, plastered with skim finish on one side and back wall with just the timber frame in place for the other side wall. This timber frame is going to be plasterboarded and skimmed, however i've read on here that it may be better to tile onto the board once it's tanked and to not skim plaster it. Is this right?

The wall tiles are i think 300x6/7/800 i can't remember but basically rectangular.

Should the already skimmed plaster on the other walls of the shower definitely be tanked?

Going to be using a chrome tile trim but will probably have a point where a 3 way mitre needs to be cut. I've done this before with a quadrant tile trim where the profile is a perfect qtr circle and this finished nicely. Is it possible to do a 3 way mitre with trim such as some of the Homelux stuff where the profile is not a perfect qtr circle or do i have to go with the quadrant stuff and possibly get some of the external corner pieces?

I can appreciate this is a lot to ask help with but any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Skeg

 

[swanman]

mY advise would be to use a pro tiler and just help him

Sounds a lot of work for you

what do you mean by a 3 way mitre never have come across one

 

[Gazzer]

mY advise would be to use a pro tiler and just help him

Sounds a lot of work for you

what do you mean by a 3 way mitre never have come across one

Tiling Forum - Cutting Tile Trim | 3 Way Mitre with Pictures

 

[CDS]

As Swanman suggests it sounds like a fair bit of work for someone that doesn't do it much.

I've always been naff at 3 way mitres despite using the advice on this forum in the past - Personally I'd use a bit of sq edge chrome of plastic trim for that bit!!

Prime all walls and tank walls around the shower to a height of 1m and seal to the shower tray.

I'd check your weights for your wall tiles as plasterskim doesn't have as high a tolerance as plasterboard - from memory its something like 22kg per m.sq for skim and 32kg p/m.sq for plasterboard.

 

[skeg]

Thanks guys.

I've done a shower cubicle, bath surround and floor before. I was more double checking the methods and practises i.e. tiling onto tanked plasterboard or tanked skimmed plasterboard (will check the weight of the tiles).

Square edge chrome trim sounds like it could be the better option for a better finish.

 

[Tony73]

Hi, as above, best to get some pro tiler. For you mitred corners would not be easy.

and those are only small ceramic tiles. porcalain tiles much harder to do

 

[skeg]

Maybe i've not described it very well. I was only talking about the 3 way mitre for the tile trim not the tiles themselves.

 

[Qwerty]

3 way mitre is easy once you get your head around which cut to do first etc. To answer your question re Homelux trim..... I agree that some of the quadrant trims are not quite even and are slightly offset, so on these occasions I have either spent ages with a file shaving bits off to suit, or purchased the manufacturers own trim corner pieces