Full Wetroom Build Thread - Start to finish - Tile Advice

[Adam18Spring]

Hi all
In a kind of 'Payment' for all the advice i have got from here i have decided to do a build thread for my wet room, it may help someone in the future it may not but here it goes!

Room size is 1.8M x 2.2M, at the end of the extension i finished building a last year. I work full time so this may take a while as it will just be me doing this...

Screed is an anhydrite screed currently 50mm below finished floor level, i shuttered of 150mm before the screed went in to accomidate the drain.

With that let's start with the blank canvas.

You can see the shuttered off area here

Rough toilet location

Ceiling already plastered

So first up we need to get our services in:
Toilet Overhead Cisten
Hot/Cold for sink
Feed to Wall mounted shower
Feed to wall mounted wand flexi shower thing
The shower will be digital so also some Cat5

Planning the pipe routes and flush mounting the clips As i am battening and boarding (Didn't feel i could get the finish i wanted with the DotnDab) i only needed to recess the surface mounted clips to just below the batten depth of 18mm. So with that in mind:

Next up was making the copper pipework.
Now, i had no soldering iron but i can just about TIG Weld... Just Dan, just....

So making the pipes and installing

Next up was the extraction, used a 150mm inline fan from Vent-Axia

Next up i wanted to battern all the walls rather than d+d as i wasnt confident enough to get a good finish.

So batten at 400mm centers.

Also placed ply around the pipes so i can a good fixing point

 

[Waluigi]

I remember the thread, Adam. Glad to see it making its way back on here. A great project!

 

[Adam18Spring]

So with the walls batterned out it was ready for the moister resisting plasterboard, added plasterboard adhesive along with the screws

I next scrim taped and plastered the top strip to the beading then got plastering

Left it for a week to dry then masked, painted and painted the beams

And ceiling done!

Next up we have the floor! In the last update i go the linear drain in it's position. So next up was building the floor falls. I didn't want a tray because i preferred to make it.

So, the floor with Linear drain fitted to screed height

Tray in and packed with cement, there is a membrane between the anhydrite screed and the cement

So, time to remove the Anhydrite screed lattice.
Killer angle grinder!

Next up was time to make the falls, 20mm per meter for the first meter to the drain then 10mm per meter for the rest of the floor.

Jig'ing and welding the former:

Rear former

Now i had a form in place to screed to i needed to primer the floor

Next up was the screed

First up i used Mapei floor adhisive to bond the screed to the floor/primer then a sharp sand 3/1 Mix with SBR.

Drain Masked off first of course

Here you can see the adhisive before the screed was compacted ontop

And done

Then all surfaces primered with BAL APD

And on with the Impey Tanking and sealed with Impey sealer

 

[Qwerty]

I remember it too. Thanks for taking the time to post this Adam. I'm looking forward to the next instalment

 

[Adam18Spring]

Next up the tiling

So first i put out the batten and set out

Then up and away with the tiling!
Got to the window corners and the bit i was dreading, the miters...

first wall done, i didn't want to grout the external mitre so i filled them all
Next moved onto the floor and the other 2 wall's

labeled all the cuts for the floor

Next up me and my other half did the grouting...

Lovely job huh?! We used Epoxy grout, BAL Easypoxy AG Black, mostly due to wanting to make it as water tight as possible...

Using a set of digital scales to mix up exact amounts and using empty mastic tubes to apply the grout with

And the floor.. the dark patches are just water

And done, this shows the miters after filling and cleaning

 

[Old Mod]

very good Adam.

 

[Adam18Spring]

Next up was the toilet, we found a old i guess 80-100 year old toilet on ebay so we brought that... Was all original, original seat, lead pipes and all!

The cisten was full of holes as you would image as it had been sat empty for 20 years..

So first cleaned it up with a wire wheel

Re-welded the corner back in

As there was a few pin holes i decided to fibreglass the inside to make it effectivly 'New'
Before

After

With that done and a coat of clear lacquer i got it up

Added a new socket ready for the new flush pipe

and made the new flush pipe, tig welded copper and lacquered

sanded the toilet seat and re-made the rear section and cleaned the original fixings

before:

After

and done

 

[Waluigi]

Oooh, I don’t remember seeing the cistern before. Did it come with the ‘Bell’ inside it?

 

[Adam18Spring]

Next i wanted a solid stainless steel towel rail but they were mega ££££ so i made one..

All done, and pressure tested ready to be hung

I also made a basket to hold our soaps and sponges, all stainless once again as it was a wet room

We then had a waterproof unit made and i made some taps for it

And some pics of it all completed

 

[Qwerty]

You have skill for sure! Great job!

 

[widler]

Very nice,I’m sure I saw this a year or two ago! For some reason I remember the lady in the vest top plus remember the tiling too

 

[TheAofT]

Great idea and execution
Well done!

 

[Tile Fix Direct]

Great looking job. A lot of man hours went into that!

 

[Tile Shop]

Absolutely stunning work.