bathroom

[all-ireland]

do i have to tile the bathroom before i put in the bathroom ware thank you

 

[Deleted member 1779]

I think the consensus is that ANYTHING you can remove from the working space will help

so good point !

Tile it FIRST and fit second - anywhere you can. In this example again the shower tray HAS to be fitted first.
The toilet has gone in second. And now the shower door is going in.

One slight drawback to moving big items in small spaces (that includes baths and glass shower doors) is that they can be bulky to swing about so be careful of those fresh laid tiles.

The bath above was not so much "heavy" but an awkward bugger to move due to its size.

The background provides a tempting array of objects to swing into. The bathroom was no exception either !!!

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Whilst I agree in principle with all that has been said and I am not an expert - I have always tiled the walls and stopped (leaving a cut row Normally) above the shower or bath. Then fitted the shower or bath and completed/ Only because I dont want to butter finger a tile up near the ceiling and have it fall into the bath and i also want easy access to tile.

I've started doing this now easyt, you only drop one tile on a bath, I've done it and there's no way thats happening again!

 

[Scott]

Bath boards guys its the way forward, especially if like most of the tilers here you dont fit the bathrooms first. I have a piece of ply that fits most baths and shower trays along with a thick canvas dust sheet folded double underneath as a chushion to stop any scratching. It alo stop you standing in the bath/shower tray, something which has always irritated me about some tradesmen

 

[badger]

bath boards come in very handy and eliminates any accidents

 

[Bathfix Bob]

I once had a nice bathboard but it just kept getting chopped up to fill holes in floors.