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Eric The Viking
 
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Default Bathroom tiling - tile first or tile last?

I'm going to be fitting a new bathroom suite, and would appreciate
peoples opinions on whether it's best to tile the walls then fit the
bath, WC & sink - or to fit the bath WC & sink and then tile around
them.

.... or any other combinations of the above.

Cheers

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I'm going to be fitting a new bathroom suite, and would appreciate
peoples opinions on whether it's best to tile the walls then fit the
bath, WC & sink - or to fit the bath WC & sink and then tile around
them.

... or any other combinations of the above.

Cheers

Tile the walls, and floor if you're going that way, right the way down
passed the positions of your appliances. This gives you a good surface to
place sealants against to stop water getting behind them. Especially behind
a wash-basin, which needs to fit tight against the wall anyway, it is easier
to seal against uncut flat tiles, than it is to try to cut tiles around the
shape of the basin, then seal it.

The WC and cistern are the same situation as the wash-basin, and it's easier
to seal against flat uncut tiles than to try and shape tiles around the
cistern and loo.

The bath is the only enigma in the suite. You can tile down to just above
the roll edge of the bath, then place a sealant strip along the whole length
before placing the last pieces of tile in place over the sealant strip.
Like these:
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/images/pr...6059_O_1_l.jpg
from the HomeLux range.

But the bath can also be placed against flat uncut tiles and sealed with a
normal squirt of silicone like the wash-basin and loo cistern. I'll leave
that choice up to you.

Good luck with it.


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Thanks m8.

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Be sure the bath wall is flat enough before tiling behind!
If the bath wall runs out, or is not at 90 deg to the end wall(s) then you
may have to chop the bath into the wall a bit to get a decent job. In this
case definitely tile down onto bath edge.
Recommend set out tiling accurately leaving nearly a full tile above bath
edge line.
Tile completely except row above bath then install bath and fit final row of
tiles cutting bottom edge as necessary.
This avoids having to work above bath and reduces possiblility of dropping
tile and damaging bath.
Use top grade silicon no cheap swag.

Phil


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