Fitting 755mm wide bath in 780mm space - TilersForums.com

[basdewaard]

I am at a loss with this one. How can I fit a 755mm bath in a 780mm space? Walls are brick. I read somewhere that you could 'pack out' the wall with rapidset. If the bath is placed in the middle that would be 12.5mm of packing out on either side. Alternatively 25mm on one wall. Surely there's a better way?

Ideally the tiles would end up sitting on top of the bath's tile bead too (instead of against the outside of the bath).

 

[robgrant]

hi could you not dot & dab plaster board on 1 wall . or make a frame on 1 side of the bath and tile that

 

[Colour Republic]

dot and dab plasterboard on one side. 12.5mm dry wall adhesive, 12.5mm plasterboard = 25mm, then tiles will sit on the bath edge.

I assume one end of the bath is going iin an alcove?

like this....

 

[micko]

How about some tile backer boards to bring it out.

 

[basdewaard]

Hi, thanks very much for the suggestions. This gives me some good ideas. Colour Repuplic....here's a sketchup model of the situation. There's a blue/green edge around the bath of about 10mm representing the gap. I can't help but wonder if it's easier/cheaper to just fill that gap with silicon? Or could that result in undesirable consequences?