DIY Related: Bathroom tiling queries

[Freyanne]

Hi

As I said in my intro I'm a DIYer and have a little previous experience of tiling - a few floors and the bathroom in my last house. I live in Northern Ireland.

I'm now doing the bathroom in my current home and have a couple of questions.

1. I'm laying ceramic floor tiles and the hallway floor is oak parquet. I'm not too worried about the slight change in level but would like suggestions about how to finish the join. Do I need to get some sort of threshold strip? Would silicone be adequate to finish the small gap between the two?

2. Looking at the fabulous pictures on the site - I probably shouldn't as I'll only be disappointed with my results in comparison - I see most of you tile directly onto the bath and finish with silicone and it looks great. I used a bath seal strip on the bath in my last house and had intended to do so again. Is the way you guys do it a lot harder to do - should I just stick to the bath seal?

Any and all advice welcome.

[faithhealer]

threshold strip for me and silicon round the bath. bath seals look discusting after a few years

[kilty55]

hi freyya, buy a karl dham profiling kit they are around 12 pounds,if you read the instructions it makes silicone finishing good quality and isnt too difficult

[david campbell]

nice chrome/brass or wood threshold strip and silicone around the bath

[Sir Ramic]

As above, I refuse to use bath trim anymore on domestic work.

[doug boardley]

threshold strip and silicon round the the bath Freyanne, looks far better. Leave a 2-3mm gap between tiles and bath so the silicon will fill this gap.

[diamondtiling]

You say that the hallway is oak flooring Freyanne, are you intending to tile directly over this?

[Freyanne]

diamond tiling, I'm tiling the bathroom floor which meets the hallway floor in the doorway. Bathroom floor is concrete.

Thanks for the advice everyone. Got a threshold strip today so I can finish the floor this evening. Will probably have to internet order the karl dham kit. Fingers crossed I can find a supplier that doesn't charge silly money to post something to NI. :-)

[enduro]

diamond tiling, I'm tiling the bathroom floor which meets the hallway floor in the doorway. Bathroom floor is concrete.

Thanks for the advice everyone. Got a threshold strip today so I can finish the floor this evening. Will probably have to internet order the karl dham kit. Fingers crossed I can find a supplier that doesn't charge silly money to post something to NI. :-)

www.tradetiler.co.uk a sponsor of the site sells them. Go into Siliconing/sealers and primers on his site you will see them.

[Freyanne]

Thanks enduro - I ordered it. He delivers light items like that by Royal Mail.

[kilty55]

top choice

[mikethetile]

use corner tape for the bath, click on their site on the left for details of how it works

threshold

do you have a carpenter or timber merchant near you who could machine a peice of irish oak for you and stain it to mmatch your oak floor

[Freyanne]

Thanks mikethetile. I've ordered a Karl Dahm silicone kit. Do I need corner tape as well?

I bought an oak effect MDF threshold today and have fixed the base of it in place already. I may upgrade to a custom made one at a later stage, that does sound nice.

All the floor tiles are laid now, hallelujah!

[whitebeam]

Any pics

[365drills]

If you are doing a bathroom project you should also consider the "All In One" Tile drilling solution from 365Drills.



Good Value for Money !



And we have a distributor in Ireland too !



Accura Diamond Drills of Ireland

Website

[Freyanne]

Thanks for that 365 drills - I have finished my floor and though your product would have been very useful for the pipes I had to make do without. I was fairly lucky that my rad pipes and the pipe for the cistern were at the edges of tiles so I was able to grind approximate circles for them. I'll definitely keep the product in mind again. :-)

[Freyanne]

Any pics

Are there instructions for posting pohotos - do I have to upload to somewhere like photobucket first?

[Freyanne]

My wall tiles are 25 x 40 ceramic and I'm laying them grid bond. Would you recommend 3mm or 4mm spacing?

[365drills]

Are there instructions for posting pohotos - do I have to upload to somewhere like photobucket first?

Upload your snaps to any picture handling site. (I use facebook!) right click on the mouse to copy the link of the photo.

Click that square box above and then follow the instructions in this picture below:



Thats how it works on this site.

[Freyanne]

The ungrouted floor.

Just thinking 365drills - the kit you recommended includes diamond tipped drill bits for drilling tiles, yes? If so can you recommend a UK based internet supplier as I'll need to drill the floor tiles for the bath panel fixings. Thanks.

[365drills]

Just thinking 365drills - the kit you recommended includes diamond tipped drill bits for drilling tiles, yes? If so can you recommend a UK based internet supplier as I'll need to drill the floor tiles for the bath panel fixings. Thanks.

That would be us!

Thats what we do / sell



We stock over 37 different size diamond core drills for drilling holes into very hard porcelain tiles.

[Freyanne]

This is today's work. I'm really pleased with it. :-)