Nightmare !!! The Tiler Will Get Over It

[bcd-87]

Hi Guys

The room I started today is a bathroom Referb.. Taken back to block work, dot & dabbed then skimmed.. Sounds great .

Any ideas ?

 

[Dan]

Why skimmed if it's being tiled?

You need to cut the bath into the wall. A blunt chisel should do the job. Protect the bath.

Then push it into the groove and tile to it after tanking.

 

[bcd-87]

Hi Dan

The Plumber I'm tiling for said no to tanking because of cost..the bath is fitted mate.. Siliconed the lot

 

[Mr Tiler]

Hi Guys

The room I started today is a bathroom Referb.. Taken back to block work, dot & dabbed then skimmed.. Sounds great .

Any ideas ?

There a wall on other end?

 

[bcd-87]

There a wall on other end?

Hi

It's not square at all.. I made the plumber get the plasterer back to do some bonding but its still 20mm plus out.. I client have been ripped of by a builder in the past so are hot on detail rightly so.. So I have a small problem

 

[Sean Kelly]

A 6mm Marmox or insulation board could be stuck to the wall to bring it out.

 

[bcd-87]

Hi sean

That's a possibility. There is a low window raveel almost straight after the bath ends.. I'm tiling full height one side and half height the other with no trims ( I know!! Not my idea ) so any board will show

 

[Sean Kelly]

Hi sean

That's a possibility. There is a low window raveel almost straight after the bath ends.. I'm tiling full height one side and half height the other with no trims ( I know!! Not my idea ) so any board will show

It's going to have to be one of those plastic bath quadrants then.

 

[widler]

That looks like bonding not skim? If it is skim its dog rough, if its bonding it needs skimming .Get the skimmer (he aint no plasterer) back or you board it .
You can not silicone that

 

[SJPurdy]

Bonding is not an approved surface to tile onto so that will need to be skimmed over. (I've never really understood why as years ago I and most other tilers I knew used it to straighten walls and then tiled over it with no probs!).
Discuss this problem with the customer and point out that the tiler can't bed out tiles to correct the work of other trades (I assume it still says this in the BS for tiling - it certainly used to).
If you just tile it everything will be your fault! so it is for the customer to say that he will accept a bad job or get the previous trades back to do their work correctly.
If the corner of the building is out of square so much that it cant be corrected by the plasterer and, when the long side of the bath is fitted up to the wall there is a gap at the short end of the bath then the bath has to be cut in to the plaster wall on one or two(if it is bad) walls.

 

[Spare Tool]

Always thought the whole point of knocking back to brick and dot n dabbing was to get walls plumb and corners square...get the plasterer back or walk if you've got something else to do

 

[Simon benn Leeds]

Think ur plummers having you over as well m8

He should of straightened the bath in on the long edge and cut in on the short edge assuming the taps can be operated.

 

[mattle40]

agree with Simon, plumber pulled a fast one, if it's not touching at the other end then it should be chopped in, obviously that's after the first problem of the walls being poor though.
Professional turd polishers though us tilers aren't we

 

[White Room]

Started to think why did'nt they dot and dab and realised they did, someones having a laugh there....

 

[Mr Tiler]

Give customers said options if not happy walk away, cant make a 10mm grout joint dissapear can ya

 

[bcd-87]

Thanks everyone for your time on this one.. Iv been in touch with the plumber he's now saying client has bought the wrong size bath and there was allways going to be a gap.. But surely when the walls were dotted inn he would have sorted this ?? Unfortunately Iv commited to the job so I will chat with both client and plumber and keep everyone posted

 

[Dan]

No bath is too fixed before it is tiled. Scribe it in, it should move an inch. If not use flexi pipes to the taps and stick ball valves on them while you're at it. Get that bath move back. It'll only need to go back so much because of the tile and adhesive thickness etc

 

[p4ulo]

How thick are the tiles? If the client has bought the wrong sized bath and the plumber has fitted the wrong sized bath, you need to have a chat with both of them and point out the problem. If the tiles are fairly thick you might get away with a thick silicone profile around the whole lot, or a moulded edge tile like the Victorians used to put around the tops of baths?
Either way, if they have both been idiots, surely it's not your problem.

 

[Ian]

No bath is too fixed before it is tiled. Scribe it in, it should move an inch. If not use flexi pipes to the taps and stick ball valves on them while you're at it. Get that bath move back. It'll only need to go back so much because of the tile and adhesive thickness etc

I think it's the short end of the bath in the pic Dan, the hole is too big.

 

[Dan]

I think it's the short end of the bath in the pic Dan, the hole is too big.

Ohhhh is it? @bcd-87

What's the other end?

 

[p4ulo]

If that is the end of the bath, and the other end is up to the wall too.....only option is to board out the wall to accommodate....you'll have to insist on tiling up to the ceiling on that wall too, to avoid any visible thicknesses?!

 

[bcd-87]

It's the right hand side guys, taps and shower riser other end.. I have a better picture on instergram @Dan @Bri

 

[Dan]

That makes sense. Tile down as far as you can and move on its not your issue.

 

[Mr Tiler]

That makes sense. Tile down as far as you can and move on its not your issue.

Tile down where? You mean tuck behind the bath and go down the wall?

 

[Dan]

Tile down where? You mean tuck behind the bath and go down the wall?

Down he wall to the bath and where a tile goes beyond it, let it go beyond it. Finish it all off and then let the customer who bought the wrong bath or the plumber who fitted the wrong bath get the wrong trim or wrong quadrant to cover said massive gap lol