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Its just something you don't see often over here. Over here you rarely see tanking of showers, I've been on many housing estates where its just tiled straight onto plasterboard. 90% of builders or self builders wanted it tiled straight onto plasterboard and just seal around shower with adhesive even after I suggested tanking walls but hey! Its what the customer wanted. Same as last week I tiled an ensuite, I was asked to tile 2 different size tiles and colours into each other. IMO it just didn't look right but its what customer wanted.

Well if all the builders got that attitude you should have pleanty of work for years to come :smilewinkgrin:
 
It's also a far better finish if you leave off bottom cut and tile down onto floor
i was taught in my apprenticeship to mark a line and tile down
not for me anymore bottom cut left off,tile floor then put bottom course in,far better finish
it actually does not make a scrap of difference which way you do it as it should not be grouted in wall or floor grout. do you know where this method of leaving the bottom cut out came from ?
 
Ok, here's a bathroom I finished last week, did I do the floor first or the walls first? [emoji2]
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I would say wall first as you didn't need to line the joints. .....

Do I win a prize if im right. .?

No prize I'm afraid, unless you want a pair of old socks [emoji2] and yes, walls first but, I don't think it's possible to tell after Silicon.
 
it actually does not make a scrap of difference which way you do it as it should not be grouted in wall or floor grout. do you know where this method of leaving the bottom cut out came from ?

Yes - I did it on a job in 1973 and everyone just copied me!
 
No prize I'm afraid, unless you want a pair of old socks [emoji2] and yes, walls first but, I don't think it's possible to tell after Silicon.
Nice job but i bet you didn't start with a raked in cut to the floor Bri :smilewinkgrin:
 

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