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So attempting my first wetroom floor.
Tough-X Linear wet room kit bought from the very helpful people at www.TradeWetRooms.com (found through this site)
As can be seen in the pictures substrate is all ready. Tray installed at joist height with 4mm
Jackoboards to match the top of former level, then fully taped and tanked.
Tiles are a 9mm x 45mm x 45mm on a 300mm x 300mm sheet, porcelain, covering the whole floor.
My questions are;
Setting out; as the drain is the focal point should I run off the bottom (closest to door) of the linear drain? This leave a nice 50% cut tile at the door, which will have to have some form of threshold on it as the floor that the tiles butt up too isnt cut level. This works quite nicely at the top of the room as well, after the cut for the drain it looks like a full tile from my dry lay picture? OR would experience dictate a different layout?
Trowel; what size trowel should I use with this tile? As its a mosaic I was going to use a smaller size say a 6mm notch?? But is this too low for a floor, should I use an 8mm? Am using Larson Standard Set Flex white adhesive.
Floor level; So the floor is level, if any thing has a natural fall to the shower tray (pure luck), however I dont know if you can see it in the pictures but the point at which the Jackoboard meets the tray the fall in the shower former drops suddenly especially closer to the drain end. How do I tile this to get a nice consistent fall to the drain? Do I build the former up with more adhesive, but I dont want to lose the built in fall of the former. I wasnt going to cut any of the tiles to match the fall, hence using a mosaic tile...
I thank you all in advance for reading this and any helpful replies are appreciated, didnt want to start until I had some opinions
Tough-X Linear wet room kit bought from the very helpful people at www.TradeWetRooms.com (found through this site)
As can be seen in the pictures substrate is all ready. Tray installed at joist height with 4mm
Jackoboards to match the top of former level, then fully taped and tanked.
Tiles are a 9mm x 45mm x 45mm on a 300mm x 300mm sheet, porcelain, covering the whole floor.
My questions are;
Setting out; as the drain is the focal point should I run off the bottom (closest to door) of the linear drain? This leave a nice 50% cut tile at the door, which will have to have some form of threshold on it as the floor that the tiles butt up too isnt cut level. This works quite nicely at the top of the room as well, after the cut for the drain it looks like a full tile from my dry lay picture? OR would experience dictate a different layout?
Trowel; what size trowel should I use with this tile? As its a mosaic I was going to use a smaller size say a 6mm notch?? But is this too low for a floor, should I use an 8mm? Am using Larson Standard Set Flex white adhesive.
Floor level; So the floor is level, if any thing has a natural fall to the shower tray (pure luck), however I dont know if you can see it in the pictures but the point at which the Jackoboard meets the tray the fall in the shower former drops suddenly especially closer to the drain end. How do I tile this to get a nice consistent fall to the drain? Do I build the former up with more adhesive, but I dont want to lose the built in fall of the former. I wasnt going to cut any of the tiles to match the fall, hence using a mosaic tile...
I thank you all in advance for reading this and any helpful replies are appreciated, didnt want to start until I had some opinions
