Tiling a really, really awkward shaped bathroom - tips?

[quimcunx]

Last time I checked, yeah.

check again now. Just in case. check with your cheesy toffee fingers.

 

[revlon]

okay, looks a tight fiddly job but patience and perseverance should see you through.

Start with the outer corner first (this one)

make sure those tiles are flush then follow the wall round. Person was right about starting from the centres and working your way to the edges but with outward corners you have to be spot on. With the long wall span (the one under the window) definitely work from the centre out.

I wouldn't use a wet saw for cermaic wall tiles, not really worth it. A good manual tile cutter will do the job just as well. Can't see on your pics where you'd need to make more than one staright cut per tile and you get a cleaner line by scoring and snapping the tile. If it's a one off job definitely borrow one.

Rectangular brick effect tiling supposed to 'stretch' the room so would be ideal but will mean double the amount of tile cutting to do. Reckon you'd be okay though.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

okay, looks a tight fiddly job but patience and perseverance should see you through.

Start with the outer corner first (this one)

make sure those tiles are flush then follow the wall round. Person was right about starting from the centres and working your way to the edges but with outward corners you have to be spot on. With the long wall span (the one under the window) definitely work from the centre out.

I wouldn't use a wet saw for cermaic wall tiles, not really worth it. A good manual tile cutter will do the job just as well. Can't see on your pics where you'd need to make more than one staright cut per tile and you get a cleaner line by scoring and snapping the tile. If it's a one off job definitely borrow one.

Rectangular brick effect tiling supposed to 'stretch' the room so would be ideal but will mean double the amount of tile cutting to do. Reckon you'd be okay though.

There's triangular shapes (on the current ones). If you look at the surround of the bath (the horizontal tiles), they're all over the place. However, those are 6x6 inch tiles.

I was thinking that as I may take the tiling up to the window sill, I would get 25x33cm tiles. That way, vertically, they'd only be 6cms short of the window sill and I could get a border to fill that gap.

However, because the walls round the bath are the following measurements wide

68cm
63cm
48cm
12cm
46cm
115cm

then even using a 25cm width tile means I'd have to do lots of cutting.

If however, I lay the tiles sideways, then because I want to go up to a height of 72, then laying 3 on top of each other would come to 75cm so I'd still have to cut.

I'm don't even going to think about the sink area

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I've just counted the full tiles laying horizontally round the bath.

I reckon added up, there'd probably be around 13-15 full tiles. However, there's only 4 full tiles. The rest are cut up to fit all the various nooks and crannies

 

[Pingu]

i dont like it and mots tradesmen i have spoken to dont like it either but have you thought about that tileboard stuff?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

i dont like it and mots tradesmen i have spoken to dont like it either but have you thought about that tileboard stuff?

Not sure what it is, but I don't think I like the sound of it

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

i dont like it and mots tradesmen i have spoken to dont like it either but have you thought about that tileboard stuff?

Just googled it

would probably make the job a lot easier, but probably very cheap looking. Nice idea though, for someone, but not for me.

 

[quimcunx]

Do you need to have the horizontal tiles surrounding the bath?

Can't you put that liquid flooring down.

Or use perspex or something cut to size, stick it on with nonails and caulk it? For vertical and horizontal surfaces.


Or screw it to the wall and put those rubber rings and caps over the screws and caulk it?

Ask these people beside South Wimbledon tube.

http://www.abplas.co.uk/mainframeset.htm

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Do you need to have the horizontal tiles surrounding the bath?

I've no idea what's under those tiles. I doubt however, that the person who put them there in the first place did it for the pure love of tiling

Can't you put that liquid flooring down.

You mean water? I don't think neighbour would be happy. What the hell's liquid flooring?

Or use perspex or something cut to size, stick it on with nonails and caulk it? For vertical and horizontal surfaces.

I think I need a picture

 

[quimcunx]

It's like rubber or something. You're meant to pour it onto your floor and it dries all lovely and even.


Or doesn't. and you have to spend 5 weeks scraping it up and starting again with other flooring.

I'll see if I can find a pic of what I mean perspex wise.

 

[quimcunx]

this sort of thing.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Oh, you mean use an acrylic or perspex sheet or something and lay it in place of the horizontal tiles?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's like rubber or something. You're meant to pour it onto your floor and it dries all lovely and even.


Or doesn't. and you have to spend 5 weeks scraping it up and starting again with other flooring.

I'll see if I can find a pic of what I mean.

So where are you talking about using the rubber, on the floor or instead of horizontal tiles?

 

[quimcunx]

I was talking about using the rubber thingy instead of horizontal tiles

OR using perspex instead of both.

Or rubber for horizontal and perspex for vertical. Use your imagination minnie!

 

[quimcunx]

Or perspex for horizontal and tiles for vertical.

I was giving you two alternative materials that you could use.

WOTEVA!!!!!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I was talking about using the rubber thingy instead of horizontal tiles

OR using perspex instead of both.

Or rubber for horizontal and perspex for vertical. Use your imagination minnie!

Well I doooooooooooooooooooo apologise. Having never seen this rubber stuff, it's hard to imagine.

Anyway, I think I'm going to be brave and go for tiles (cheap ones so it doesn't turn into an expensive mistake)

I quite fancy a light grey rectangular one but it's non-reflective.

I've also come across these which I think look clean and bright and look like they catch the light.

 

[quimcunx]

I have white letterbox tiles in my bathroom.

I still think you should enquire into the perspex idea.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I have white letterbox tiles in my bathroom.

I still think you should enquire into the perspex idea.

Perspex is an idea for the horizontal bit and I may well look into it.

Those aren't letterbox tiles. That's one whole tile. Here's a similar version of it.

 

[quimcunx]

How is something that big with a pattern going to work if one surface is smaller than one tile or if the surface is only one tile and a bit? Will it not look a bit odd?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

How is something that big with a pattern going to work if one surface is smaller than one tile or if the surface is only one tile and a bit? Will it not look a bit odd?

If the tiles are only 25cm wide, then most of them are going to need to be cut anyway, it's a case of finding the right place to cut them, or I have to go for smaller tiles or plain tiles.

 

[quimcunx]

I'd have thought that the bigger the tile the greater the wastage. With a pattern at least.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'd have thought that the bigger the tile the greater the wastage. With a pattern at least.

There's lots of little bits round the sink

Tile Giant have estimated I need around 3.7sq metres. They come in boxes of 1 square metre, so I've leeway to fuck up a couple.

They're also quite cheap which means I can order more

 

[19sixtysix]

Just scanned the thread as in middle of choosing tiles for my bathroom.
Did you see those mosaic tiles at £8 per 1.6m3 box in the tops tiles Cristallo-Dark-Blue-Wall-Tile. light and beige as well.
I'm quite tempted as I have problem of having to match tile edges to access panels in my wall.

 

[London_Calling]

Looked pretty straight forward, did you get it done today, Minnie?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just scanned the thread as in middle of choosing tiles for my bathroom.
Did you see those mosaic tiles at £8 per 1.6m3 box in the tops tiles Cristallo-Dark-Blue-Wall-Tile. light and beige as well.
I'm quite tempted as I have problem of having to match tile edges to access panels in my wall.

Good price, and easy to cut and match patterns. You going to get them? Go on, then you can get your tiling done and show us pictures.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Looked pretty straight forward, did you get it done today, Minnie?

Have about 2 tiles left to do.

 

[London_Calling]

The first and the last?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The first and the last?

yes





















and everything in between

 

[London_Calling]

And we'll be here a while yet, won't we . . .

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

And we'll be here a while yet, won't we . . .

You don't have to enter my threads. You know you'll be bored, but you just can't resist can ya?