my wetroom diary!

[dagger]

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??

get the wax off with a stanley blade (easy peasy)

as for grouting the floor:

if you grout it you get crap on it and have to do a serious clean,
if you dont grout it and work clean, you dont need to get the grouting gear out or need to clean it!

i am a time and motion man me!:lol::lol::lol:

 

[dagger]

not much to report today as i spent most of the day pressure testing the new waste pipes we have installed (toilet waste, sink waste, and the trap in the shower!)
this is needed so we can show the building inspector that the new pipework we have installed are not leaking, the pipes must hold pressure for five minutes, and guess what, there was a pressure leak, so with bungs in all the pipework i began to isolate all the individual waste pipes and search for that pesky leak!!

found the leak hours later and it was a bit of tile adhesive on the bung in the basin waste pipe creating a space so the bung could not seal the pipe properly, cleaned the bung, plugged it back in, checked the pressure gauge and called the building inspector!:hurray::hurray::hurray::hurray:

i managed to do a little bit of tiling but only 1 wall so not much to see:

 

[tileexperts]

thats some job, fair play mate.
your doing a great job.
cant wait to see wen its finished. thanks for sharing it with us

 

[Daveyboy]

Looking good dagger...

 

[Prem Tiler]

What a top job you do!

Looks great. I see you used tape around the trim is this give to give it a little helping hand while setting? Great idear with these big tiles.

 

[STINGRAY30]

really enjoyed reading this post!! excellent work!!

 

[chris.tiling]

fantastic post Dagger - great for all to see a job in progress. Looks a great room too - well done mate

 

[Rob Z]

Dagger, thanks for showing all of us how your job is going. I like seeing these shots of a typical install in the UK. It is a rare thing here in the US where the bathroom gets comprehensive waterproofing like you guys do on your jobs.

 

[dagger]

I have just got off the telephone with my potential customer and given him the unfortunate news how much it will cost to remove and replace his "wetroom" and pointed him in the direction of this post,
so i hope he finds this informative and reassuring!

and thank you to you guys for all the input!

Dagger

 

[dagger]

Hello all!!

back to work today on the wetroom in SE London,

after a coffee and a minute or two i started tiling:

Someone on this forum must have loved my advice about putting a sheet down after the first course was on the wall because i could not find that sheet ANYWHERE!

anyway, an hour or so later:

the next thing i had to do was put in the wall that goes over the entrance, always a little tricky so i reached for my phone to call my mummy, not really i just put the kettle on again!

after my beverage:

i start to put the wall up, still struggling with the +/- 2mm difference in size of the tiles. (b & q people!).

a bit later i had this:

and the other side:

and a bit of a wider angle:

so, all that is left to do is the two returns and ceiling that forms the entrance to the wetroom, i will do them tommorrow and grout the lot.
siliconing and a small repair to the floor in the bedroom (i did not lay it or break it) will have to wait.

needless to say i wont be doing all that tommorrow!

thanks

Dagger.

 

[stevee]

looks great mate , good for a relative newbie like me too c pics,steve

 

[dagger]

Hello all,

i had a bad start to today, i forgot my camera!
anyway, i had to go and see another job in the afternoon so i did not get as much done as i would have liked, and i did not have photos of what i had done!!!!

but for the sake of this post on my way back from the quote i grabbed my camera from home and headed off to the wetroom job:

this is the right hand side of the entrance:

and this is the left hand side:

this is the entrance from a wide angle:

and this is the full entrance:

as you can see all the doorway is mitred chrome trim and there is chrome trim on all external corners, and although meddling with the tile joins has been a problem.... for £10m2 these tiles look great!

anyway i hope you like it so far and i will put more piccys on tommorrow!

Dagger.

 

[doug boardley]

I think it looks really good dagger, I'm also impressed with how clean you keep the job

 

[MRW]

Excellent post, as a plumber this is obviously an area I am aiming to get in to. Good to see it in stages Thanks for taking the time and effort to picture and post
:8:
Mick

 

[White Room]

Looks a great job Dagger