DIY Related: Norfolk Showering Bath - How to create a good seal to the wall.

[ljmountain]

I am about to install a bath as pictured in Mark Bs album Picture 4 of 6 from Bathroom 1. It would appear the way to do this is to tile first and then fit the bath (bath legs will be screwed to floor) - see original post tiling to a "freestanding" shower bath.

I am looking for advise on how to go about sealing bath to a pre-tiles wall, all the posts I see so far advise not to do this hence no advise for the procedure.....

Is this what I should do?
1) Get bath as close to wall as possible - pray that wall is flat......I just had it plastered but am wondering if I should have used tile backer instead.....
2) Secure bath to floor
3) Fill bath, leave to settle for 2hrs
4) Use v.good quality silicone and use loads of it to make a really good seal.
5) Wait 24hrs before emptying bath

Thanks for any advice. By the way any advice on quality silicone or relevant forum posts?

[doug boardley]

I am about to install a bath as pictured in Mark Bs album Picture 4 of 6 from Bathroom 1. It would appear the way to do this is to tile first and then fit the bath (bath legs will be screwed to floor) - see original post tiling to a "freestanding" shower bath.

I am looking for advise on how to go about sealing bath to a pre-tiles wall, all the posts I see so far advise not to do this hence no advise for the procedure.....

Is this what I should do?
1) Get bath as close to wall as possible - pray that wall is flat......I just had it plastered but am wondering if I should have used tile backer instead.....
2) Secure bath to floor
3) Fill bath, leave to settle for 2hrs
4) Use v.good quality silicone and use loads of it to make a really good seal.
5) Wait 24hrs before emptying bath

Thanks for any advice. By the way any advice on quality silicone or relevant forum posts?

wind the bath up, hopefully it won't need chopping into the wall, to about 3mm from the bottom of the tiles and then silicone. No need to use "loads", just use enough to make a seal and an aesthetic finish. If it doesn't need chopping into the wall, give the wall facing flange of your bath a good bead of silicone too.

[ljmountain]

When u say chopping into wall, how would I go about doing this after the wall is tiled? does this imply I might need to get the angle grinder out...(if readers haven't already looked please see pic in first post for style of bath as it is unusual). Thanks.

[doug boardley]

hopefully your walls will be flat and square so there will be no need to chop it in.

[Mike]

it looks an awkward one as ideally the corner needs to be bang on 90 for this bath to obtain a near perfect seal. with traditional baths you tile after fitting so you can chisel out one wall to ensure there's no gaps. good luck

[ljmountain]

I dry fitted the bath and the corners are 90 degrees Hopefully my tiling will not change that!! Thanks all for help.

[sheffjon]

I just fitted one of these and it was a royal pain. I used tile backer board and it made no difference that my corner was square, as the bath moulding was not square anyway. Neither were either of the edges horizontal, more like long banana curves on each side. Good luck trying to put a spirit level on them! To add to the fun none of the feet matched each other (despite waiting a fortnight for more bathstore deliveries and trying 3 different sets) so I had to sand the base of them down a bit at a time in order to level the bath as best I could and not have it rocking on 3 legs. The moulded profile of the edges against the walls has a very large radius for some reason, so even tiling after fitting means you will not have the tiles overhanging the bath edge radius. This, combined with the banana shaped edges, means a very wide concave silicone joint is needed around the bath. Once fitted the whole lot creaks alarmingly when climbing in and out; however tightening all the feet as much as you dare (not too much or to bathstore's specified torques or you fill crack the feet as I did with my first set), then siliconing them to the floor, and the bath to the wall, then the tile edge/bath joint, then leaving the whole thing full of water to set for 3 days, seems to sort the creaks out.
Is it worth the hassle though?

[Gazebo]

good old bathstore products eh..............!