Attention to detail question on corners

[blue_max]

Tell it like it is guys :yikes:

Thanks for you opinions which as you suspected, I totally agree with.

Wish I wasn't the client and contractor!

 

[blue_max]

OK, slightly broadening it out - I have an en-suite shower room off the bedroom. It has a walk-in shower set into the screed. One of these slopes down to a linear drain. My intention was to have the whole basement in the same light, glossy tile, but clearly you can't have a walk-in shower in glossy tile. So, unless I can find a nice, inexpensive, tile in both gloss and anti-slip finishes, I am going to struggle with that concept.
Maybe I have a different tile in every room!
But I can get some of the darker tiles I used in the upstairs bathroom, so maybe that would be a plan? Ahhhh! Too much choice!
And you think laying them is a struggle :lol:

 

[charlie1]

Blue max, this is the thing about tiling... And your similar to me I think on this one. Tiling 'in theory' seems relatively straight forward. Trust me, be the end of one wall, you will be in such a mess with it, you won't care what way looks best, you will be defeated with adhesive everywhere wondering if you should just clean up and hire a pro. Don't be too anal, 5mm grout joints are my advice to you and non rectified tiles!!! Oh, and forget brick bond!!! Good luck mate

 

[Daz]

Hi Blue_Max, I've got to be honest and I got bored reading all these posts :yikes:
I did pass across the post about gloss tiles and a wetroom floor, and just wanted to say that I have a honed and polished limestone on my wetroom floor. My family have never found it to be slippery and the room is used daily. The tiles can be slippery when wet, but you are stood in a shower zone so not walking or running and unlikely to be skidding and breaking ankles, IMO. Choose the tiles that give you the best look and fit them properly so that they last forever and everyone comments about the superb job you have done!
good luck!

 

[blue_max]

Thanks guys. Daz, I guess you are right about the slippery thing. We have a bath in the bathroom and that is glossy and isn't generally slippery. Guess I shouldn't limit my choice.

I need to stop thinking and start tiling!

 

[blue_max]

Just in case anyone is interested, I am getting it done.

Here's some pics as that's what we all want to see!

 

[Qwerty]

Looking good so far! Your cuts & hole cutting looks neat & precise [emoji4]

The gap between the bath & tile in pic5 looks a couple of mm too big for my liking, but a neat slightly larger Silicon bead should cover this ok.

A word of warning (from experience!)....that offcut of tile supporting the tile in the niche is just gagging to jump down and punch a hole in the bath!!! Tape it over or use a bath board [emoji6]

Have you checked you are using the correct cutting wheel on the TX? Could need a different one

 

[Stef]

That's looking good there, should be proud of what you have done already, I know so called Tilers that couldn't put out a job like that..

 

[blue_max]

Thank you for your comments. As the bath is sunken, it sits on it's rim and is supported at the bottom on joists. All great, but it does slope about 2mm over it's 1600 length. Close, but I had to allow for a full tile at it's narrowest edge. It is fully siliconed in behind, so as you say, a thicker bead should obscure it ok (dreading that). A further complication is that the rounded corners are slightly visible in the corners. Again, slapping a bit of Silicon is the only real option. If done neatly, it will not look too bad hopefully.

You're dead right about that tile - I don't want the enamel chipping (it's a steel bath).

I'm using a 6mm brand new cutting wheel on the Rubi. I got the impression that a smaller wheel was stronger. It cuts and snaps beautifully with larger cuts. The smaller ones just split horizontally. As I say, they are damned hard!

 

[blue_max]

That's looking good there, should be proud of what you have done already, I know so called Tilers that couldn't put out a job like that..

No professional would take as long as me! The bathroom is in use, so it's certainly a challenge.
I do appreciate the comments. I'm a bit too much of a perfectionist and tiling is not a perfect science. Even the tiles are not perfect. I've chipped one tile and lost one tile to cutting the wrong side! So not without it's dramas. And twice tiles have slipped, but fortunately I was able to catch them. Not good for stress levels!

I have even more respect to the guys who do this for a living. It all looks so simple, but it is anything but.