my wetroom diary!

[dagger]

due to a recent experience with some potential customers i have decided to share what i am doing this week, its a wetroom in se london.

i have constructed it from start to finish,

we all know that there are many ways to achieve a rock solid wetroom,
in this instance i have gone for a fibreglass reinforced.

i will keep this up for the rest of the week because my "potential" customer wants to see how i would construct his!

anyway,

here i have installed a wedi tray, a 1.5m2 heat mat and self leveled to tray height.

and here i have plastered all the walls so there is no holes around the tray and the walls are flat:

today i fibreglassed and tanked the walls and floor, did a water check and all is well for tiling tommorrow!

 

[Prem Tiler]

great post I love these kind of post's but more info would be great like which brand of materials you used and time scales.

 

[dagger]

great post I love these kind of post's but more info would be great like which brand of materials you used and time scales.

a day to install and polyplumb the tray.
a day and a half to plaster the whole room including the two celings in that room (celieng over doorway).
a lonnnnnnng day to fibreglass the wetroom.
oh i forgot half a day to install the heatmat and self level!

as for the total materials i would use and how i do it i am going to keep it to myself, with all due respect this is how people try to "give it a go!" and thats how my potential client got shafted!

if you have any questions please pm me and i will do my best to help you out in your situations!

thanks, and i hope you understand!

 

[Hawkofeagles]

Looking good dagger..

 

[Prem Tiler]

No problems dagger understood.

But in all fairness, if a ''give it a go'' merchant were to gather info on how to install a wet room i think they are more than likely to of already got the job and going to do it regardless. I just think they stand a much better chance of making a success of it with your (a time served professional tiler) guidelines than trying to follow something out of a book.

Saying that I do understand where your coming from some times too much info can be counter productive to any industry.

And lets face it, My 14month old lil girl could do a better job than billy the kid did with that poor couples 'Damp room'

 

[dagger]

No problems dagger understood.

But in all fairness, if a ''give it a go'' merchant were to gather info on how to install a wet room i think they are more than likely to of already got the job and going to do it regardless. I just think they stand a much better chance of making a success of it with your (a time served professional tiler) guidelines than trying to follow something out of a book.

Saying that I do understand where your coming from some times too much info can be counter productive to any industry.

And lets face it, My 14month old lil girl could do a better job than billy the kid did with that poor couples 'Damp room'

thanks prem, however some things are better off kept in the tilers arms, oh and the do a great pint at £0.39p so thats the place i will be in!

 

[Prem Tiler]

lol I thought this was in the arms. lol numpty ain't I?

 

[doug boardley]

what substrate did you skim onto dagger?, just wondering about your skim fully drying out prior to tanking.

 

[dagger]

what substrate did you skim onto dagger?, just wondering about your skim fully drying out prior to tanking.

as the photos show Doug it was plasterboard, but no need to worry, i was on other jobs back and forth, so no problems there, plastering had fully cured, but its a good point, always check your drying times people!!!!!

 

[dagger]

as the photos show Doug it was plasterboard, but no need to worry, i was on other jobs back and forth, so no problems there, plastering had fully cured, but its a good point, always check your drying times people!!!!!

a bit later on!!!!!!

 

[dagger]

Hi All,

Today i went back to this wetroom job so i have a few more pictures:

so we continue,

a good practice when working with certain natural stones (mainly travertine) is to back fill the tiles with adhesive before you stick them in place make sure you fill all the holes!:

Anyway, that said and done prior to this photograph i had obviously cut the shower envelope and dry fixed it to check for square in the room!

an hour or two later i had fixed the envelope in place:

and a bit closer in:

neatness and continuious lines are paramount, this is the bit of the room EVERYBODY is going to look at!

anyway, after a bit of a break i put the rest of the floor in over the underfloor heating i had installed previously:

oh before i forget in wetrooms i always put the floors in first!
there are reasons for this!

so tommorrow i will be going back to start wall tiling, sadly the wall tiles come from b and q and not these nice 60 x 40 travertines,
oh well i dont pick em, i stick em!

 

[Lawrence147]

Fantastic post dagger.

I wouldn't 'give it a go' until I had training/someone experienced with me on the job, but do you not need the floor to be sloping into the drain or was it already like this. If it wasn't, how would you create the slopes - plastering it freehand??:frown5:

 

[dagger]

hello all,

alright then, what can i tell you about todays events?

okay first of all i checked the entrance for level, this is so i can see if anyone has walked over the tiles before the adhesive has cured!!!!:

as you can see the digital bit of the level says 0.00 and there is no gap under the level.

this means the faries have not visited last night!!!:hurray:

the next think i did was clean up the drain and test the grate:

all is good in the hood!

so now i am going to start tiling but the tiles have a protective wax on them:

so i remove this outside before i put the tiles on the wall!
otherwise it gets in the grout, makes a general mess and is a right pain to deal with later!

and off i go:

you should never dot and dab, ever, and especially not in a wetroom!

after i have my first course in i put a sheet down,
this is common sence in any tiling situation but in a wetroom if a bit of adhesive gets in an open grout join you have to get it out,
and what are you going to use? stanley,grout rake, screwdriver?
any of these can be fatal to the tanking membrane so lets just work cleanly!

first wall is up and i am still not dabbin!

no dabbin yet!

mind you i did the plastering so if i was packing out i would look really silly now!!

anyway, first bit of tile trim goes in:

and from the other side:

so were into day two of tiling and i am halfway (ish) round the room!

thanks!

 

[dagger]

Oh and by the way,

the wall tiles come from b&q and are exactly the same as the Padova range from topps, and both of them are RUBBISH, each and every tile is a different size, it is impossible to get perfect grout joins!
you have to open and close joints!
cheap for a reason, and it is a shame they are so sizey because the look quite good!

 

[andy-p]

good informative posts dagger !! how much a pain was it getting that wax off and why not grout floor before tiling walls so no crap goes into joints??