I have just done a bathroom walls and floor and have finished the job now the bath has been left with a gap at the other end of the bath from the taps . I have no photos but it dont look the best the customer is looking for a strip or something to cover this as it is hard to fix to something to the wall now. any tips suggestions would be very gretaful.

How big is the gap and what colour are the tiles?

It really should have been filled(the gap) before tiling,
i'd normally use timber to make a frame to fit in,nice and strong then cover it with hardie or ply etc. Seal up well and tile on top etc.

As above, frame it then tile it.

I agree with the above but it depends how big the gap is, if its really small then it could look awful IMO

I find if you are using larger tiles,you can get away with a infill at the end of the bath using the tiles,however,if small gap ,can look a bit odd and detract from wall tiles,sometimes it is better to contrast or match to other colour in the bathroom,with maybe a matching mosaic or some granite or marble,often work top producers,ect will have off cuts that do the job,(have got from a grave stone maker before,do'nt tell the customer though)if the gap it small,can use on it side ,like a up stand at the back of a kitchen worktop,however if small gap would have been tempted to bring wall in before tiling,or have a ledge a few feet up from the bath level.

Just some thoughts
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Surely the bath should have been fitted into one corner before you started tiling ?

Take the bath panel off and add some stud work underneath the end where the gap is to stop any movement, use marmox boards cut down and stuck together to make a shelf at least 50mm in depth. Fix a batton into the gap with pink grip or similar and then use this to get screws through the marmox, use silicone to fix onto the bath. This can be tiled using stone mosaics or similar, if you have a gap down the wall then you need to fix another batton with marmox over the top for this as well. Set the battons back so that you dont have a lip where the panel meets the mosaics.
Once its dry and siliconed up it should be a feature.

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The above bath panel and bath end shelf looks amazing,pure class



thats what was saying,using the bath panel mosaics on shelf or other match,looks a lot better than if wall tiles were used

Looks great, unless the plumbing ever needs attending to - is there any access? I'll have a similar issue on my bathroom - about 100mm gap at the end of my 1800 x 800 spa bath, square, so no curves required.

I'm tempted to tile the bathpanel in neatly as per the pic, but if I ever had any pump or plumbing issues i'd be snookered. Would you silicone the panel in (needing to slice it open again if there were any issues, or use stainless capped screws to screw the tiled panel to the bath frame?

Originally Posted by monkeyhanger

Looks great, unless the plumbing ever needs attending to - is there any access? I'll have a similar issue on my bathroom - about 100mm gap at the end of my 1800 x 800 spa bath, square, so no curves required.

I'm tempted to tile the bathpanel in neatly as per the pic, but if I ever had any pump or plumbing issues i'd be snookered. Would you silicone the panel in (needing to slice it open again if there were any issues, or use stainless capped screws to screw the tiled panel to the bath frame?

Don't forget there are other ways to skin a cat,if bath backs on to inner wall ,you can have the access through wall to bedroom or hall and a nice insulated,sealed panel fitted in wall,often if box room,bed is covering it anyway but if not a nice panel looks good with some nice architrave round it and allows bath panels to be sealed and tiled or slabbed as required,in this day and age were bathrooms are getting better and better quality,it makes sense

I'll have to go with a sidepanel tiled or in the same stuff as i'm doing the floor - strand woven bamboo flooring (it looks more like a hardwood than the normal bamboo flooring, and it's waterproof, as the strands are set in resin and every face has 6 coats of lacquer).

Can't decide what will look better, tiled same as walls, tiled different to walls or the using the flooring, so that it looks like the floor flows up the side of the bath. I definitely dont want a white plastic side panel, they look crap IMO.

I'm using the starlight quartz tiles (300mm x 300mm) on the walls, so that side panel if it was tiled in the stuff would be one heavy lump if it was ever used for access.

As for access, i'd be able to gain access to the pump end of the bath from a recess in a bedoom which will be covered by a wardrobe, but the plumbing end of the bath meets a small cavity between the bathroom and the outside wall - I think side-panel access is the only way to go.

Originally Posted by puddle

Don't forget there are other ways to skin a cat,if bath backs on to inner wall ,you can have the access through wall to bedroom or hall and a nice insulated,sealed panel fitted in wall,often if box room,bed is covering it anyway but if not a nice panel looks good with some nice architrave round it and allows bath panels to be sealed and tiled or slabbed as required,in this day and age were bathrooms are getting better and better quality,it makes sense

You are dead right there puddle mate, the inner wall backs onto the bedroom where there is a fitted wardrobe, there is an access panel at the back of the wardrobe big enough to get to all the pipes, waste etc.

Originally Posted by diamondtiling

You are dead right there puddle mate, the inner wall backs onto the bedroom where there is a fitted wardrobe, there is an access panel at the back of the wardrobe big enough to get to all the pipes, waste etc.

At least you have the sense to leave access, i have been to many where they are screws in place then tiled over. My own bathroom i like that from the previous owner with the stop **** under the bath!

Originally Posted by Scottley

At least you have the sense to leave access, i have been to many where they are screws in place then tiled over. My own bathroom i like that from the previous owner with the stop **** under the bath!

Originally Posted by monkeyhanger

strand woven bamboo flooring (it looks more like a hardwood than the normal bamboo flooring, and it's waterproof, as the strands are set in resin and every face has 6 coats of lacquer).

I've fitted similar a few time and after going back to one job some months later it was scratched to pieces, the laquer was very soft so anybody with a stone in there sole would destroy it in seconds.

Some are better than others but for piece of mind i'd have a little test in one area to see how it stands up, prefer oiled myself as it hides a multiude of sins

Ive already got some of this stuff in our livingroom and master bedroom. It's very hard (suppliers say it's twice as hard as oak) and the mitre saw was worked very hard when cutting it, very dense (each pack weighs a ton - not literally, but it weighs a lot more than you'd expect a pack of that size to weigh), and is water resistant. The stuff in the livingroom and bedroom has been down 6 months now and still looks perfect, unlike some Oak flooring we bought in Costco which was dented and scratched to hell in 6 months in our old house (that Oak flooring was also lacquered).

The bamboo I bought was from Simply Bamboo, pretty much all bamboo flooring comes from China, but there's a hell of a difference in quality between the suppliers (I got plenty of samples from places to compare), you need to look out for the stuff that has 6 coats of German lacquer - that's the stuff that doesn't scratch easily, although a stone in a shoe tread will scratch pretty much anything.

Originally Posted by michaelb4348

I have just done a bathroom walls and floor and have finished the job now the bath has been left with a gap at the other end of the bath from the taps . I have no photos but it dont look the best the customer is looking for a strip or something to cover this as it is hard to fix to something to the wall now. any tips suggestions would be very gretaful.

Always have some 3inch upvc architrave in your armoury m8. I find that if you have a small gap it works a treat especially as nost baths and grout are white. Trying to box off a small strip of 2 or 3 inches is a pain ans getting good seals along thr front and back if the tiles is difficult without creating an area that traps water.

Upvc architrave will fit tight to the bath with a nice bull nose finish.

Might help you providing the gap isnt huge.

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Originally Posted by wetdec

Always have some 3inch upvc architrave in your armoury m8. I find that if you have a small gap it works a treat especially as nost baths and grout are white. Trying to box off a small strip of 2 or 3 inches is a pain ans getting good seals along thr front and back if the tiles is difficult without creating an area that traps water.

Upvc architrave will fit tight to the bath with a nice bull nose finish.

Might help you providing the gap isnt huge.

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Very clever i think you have just cracked it for me

Originally Posted by michaelb4348

Very clever i think you have just cracked it for me

Its my job and I am old