Bathroom tiling queries

[Freyanne]

Hi

As I said in my intro I'm a DIYer and have a little previous experience of tiling - a few floors and the bathroom in my last house. I live in Northern Ireland.

I'm now doing the bathroom in my current home and have a couple of questions.

1. I'm laying ceramic floor tiles and the hallway floor is oak parquet. I'm not too worried about the slight change in level but would like suggestions about how to finish the join. Do I need to get some sort of threshold strip? Would Silicon be adequate to finish the small gap between the two?

2. Looking at the fabulous pictures on the site - I probably shouldn't as I'll only be disappointed with my results in comparison - I see most of you tile directly onto the bath and finish with Silicon and it looks great. I used a bath seal strip on the bath in my last house and had intended to do so again. Is the way you guys do it a lot harder to do - should I just stick to the bath seal?

Any and all advice welcome. :smilewinkgrin:

 

[kilty55]

top choice

 

[mikethetile]

use corner tape for the bath, click on their site on the left for details of how it works

threshold

do you have a carpenter or timber merchant near you who could machine a peice of irish oak for you and stain it to mmatch your oak floor

 

[Freyanne]

Thanks mikethetile. I've ordered a Karl Dahm Silicon kit. Do I need corner tape as well?

I bought an oak effect MDF threshold today and have fixed the base of it in place already. I may upgrade to a custom made one at a later stage, that does sound nice.

All the floor tiles are laid now, hallelujah!

 

[White Room]

Any pics

 

[Deleted member 1779]

If you are doing a bathroom project you should also consider the "All In One" Tile drilling solution from 365Drills.

Good Value for Money !

And we have a distributor in Ireland too !

Accura Diamond Drills of Ireland

Website

 

[Freyanne]

Thanks for that 365 drills - I have finished my floor and though your product would have been very useful for the pipes I had to make do without. I was fairly lucky that my rad pipes and the pipe for the cistern were at the edges of tiles so I was able to grind approximate circles for them. I'll definitely keep the product in mind again. 🙂

 

[Freyanne]

Any pics

Are there instructions for posting pohotos - do I have to upload to somewhere like photobucket first?

 

[Freyanne]

My wall tiles are 25 x 40 ceramic and I'm laying them grid bond. Would you recommend 3mm or 4mm spacing?

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Are there instructions for posting pohotos - do I have to upload to somewhere like photobucket first?

Upload your snaps to any picture handling site. (I use facebook!) right click on the mouse to copy the link of the photo.

Click that square box above and then follow the instructions in this picture below:

Thats how it works on this site.

 

[Freyanne]

The ungrouted floor.

Just thinking 365drills - the kit you recommended includes diamond tipped drill bits for drilling tiles, yes? If so can you recommend a UK based internet supplier as I'll need to drill the floor tiles for the bath panel fixings. Thanks.