Bath shorter than room width

[Pac]

i started a bathroom for my daughter a while ago and am just doing bits as i get spare time. i am in the building trade but tiling is fairly new to me asit is something i have done little of in the last 20+ years.

with a lot of really good help in the prep forum i have now got all of the walls ready for tiling. it is all tanked out now so i moved to the next stage when suddenly i came across a problem i didn't notice before.

they delivered the wrong length bath last Nov. :yikes:

i actually put the taps on and the drain so it cannot go back now. the idiots delivered the 1700 when it should have been the 1730mm. as i cannot take this bath back because at the end of the day, i should have checked it before i fitted the taps etc, i now have a gap to take up.

can one of you experts give me an idea as to how you would go about it? i am guessing you come across it. all i can think of is using a piece of treated wood, sealing it further and then putting it in as a base to add a few small cuts of tile.

any ideas advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Pac are you able to take a photo of the bath in situ so we can see where you're short by 30mm? Might help the guys to advise you better. I'm not sure that a piece of wood will be the answer.

 

[beanz]

Anything stopping you finishing with a small strip of tile?

 

[Pac]

sorry can't take a photo cos i have a problem uploading at the moment, i have a fault to find on this rig.

end of the bath 30 mm short from the wall. the tile will take up about 12 mm of the gap with adhesive which will leave me with at least an 15-18mm gap at the end. not only that but it will also leave the same gap from the top of the bath to the floor, which i am guessing is going to be a pain in the glutous maximus :smilewinkgrin:

looking at the bath long ways on, the wall is going to be tile to the top of the bath and down the side of the bath. the wood was all i could think of as a base to add a little strip of tiles on to.

i can't really build it out with tile as that would be seen from the side view.

i just wondered if there was such thing as a plastic shield/strip? but not one of the ones you tile into because they look cr4p and wouldn't sort the vertical gap out.

 

[beanz]

You could use some plastic window trim, or just strips of tile. Wood isn't ideal for tiling onto, but it's not really worth sticking a slither of cement board on top, just so you can tile.

 

[Rich]

Youl need to make a small shelf at the end of the bath before you start to tile the walls, you could use wood but you will come into problems if it gets wet later on down the line. Without seeing it it is hard to give advice, have you thought about using a tile backer board like No More Ply or hardie? Easy to use and wont rot with moisture.

 

[diamondtiling]

Install a batten flush with the bath to take up the gap, screw this onto the wall. Fix similar battens along the wall to take a piece of aqua panel, fix aqua panel to the batten but take it onto the bath to create a wider shelf, you can then build this up to make a decent sized shelf which will take tiles. Silicon all areas before fixing tiles to waterproof and Silicon again after tiling. You will have small cuts down the side of the bath but they are unavoidable.
Perhaps you could use mosaics on this area so that it looks deliberate.

There is a picture in one of my albums where I built out similar to you but my shelf was supposed to be there.


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You could use marmox to make up your own bath panel, this would take away the small gap along the wall.

 

[beanz]

Interesting Doug. How do you deal with the side of the shelf, some sort of tile trim?

 

[diamondtiling]

Interesting Doug. How do you deal with the side of the shelf, some sort of tile trim?

Doug?

Doug Boardley has not replied as of yet...........:lol:

 

[beanz]

Doug?

Doug Boardley has not replied as of yet...........:lol:

lol! Sorry mate, dunno why i thought that was Doug!?!?!?!! :lol: