my wetroom diary!

[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??

 

[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.