Wednesday 2 September 2009

Still Tiling

Yes, the tiling is going very slowly. Did I mention how awkward it is to work with huge tiles?

I'm averaging about 5 tiles in an evening (3 hours) at the moment, mostly because each tile needs to be cut into so many pieces.

Anyway, here are some photos.

Around the bath

You'll notice around the bath, there is a row about 10cm high. This is perhaps unusual, the typical advice being to make the row above the bath just less than a full tile. Again, this a the problem of large tiles. It is important to get the border at the right height (not too close to the sill, not hitting the sink, etc.) and the large tiles don't leave much room for manoeuvre. There were no options that hit all requirements, but the best option was having a thin row above the bath.

Here's a bit of carefully constructed boxing that's about 70% of the size of the previous boxing but holds the same pipes.

Boxing

And finally, an example of an awkward tile, yet to do, that needs to be cut around the door.

Tiling Around the door.

Despite an appeal on facebook, I failed to find someone with a 110-120mm diamond hole saw to lend me so that I can cut the extractor fan vent. Although they're not expensive for a tool (about £10-£15), as I'm only going to drill one hole with it, it's an expensive hole! Once the rest of the bathroom is in a better state, I'm going try a tungsten carbide jigsaw blade instead.

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