Bathroom Refurb, TileTown

Nick...very impressive...love to see a close up of the window reveal...top quality stuff...i think you set the bar for other tilers sending pics in...you are a credit to your trade

why are you one of the only tilers that are happy to publish your photos?

if your tiling is as good as this you should show the world your work

Lee

as with all your work you've shown its very hard to pick any fault with. Attention to detail and finish is in a class of its own. It is difficult to say what set out would be possible without seeing the room in its entirety but to me the tiled bath panel looks a bit strange to the left of the bath, would it have been possible to line it up with the end of the wall behind the bath maybe? And the slice above the doorway i spose is the only set out sacrifice in the room, i assume it could not have been lowered for a reason. Lovely looking work though, dont get me wrong!

cheers

Rich

Another stunning job Mac! How do you do the window reveals? Do you get the get the returns in first? I only done a few porky jobs on walls and i dont think any have involved a window - crazy really when you think ive been tiling for around 3 years!

Lee, I think part of the reason that Macs jobs are so good as he does the whole lot - plumbing / boarding / joinery / tiling etc so he can plan everything how he wants it which makes the tiling job much better and easier. This is all credit to Mac as he has gone out and learned all these aspects to the job.

Personally a lot of the jobs that I do are in the lower end of the market were the prep work is awful and the tiles are usually cheap. No matter how good the 'tiling' actually is the job is never going to stand up against jobs where you are working with expensive materials fitted with top of the range fixtures and fittings

I should really go out and market myself in the better areas but for some reason never get round to it. I should also have more confidance when disussing tiling jobs with the client and give them a nudge when it comes to tile choice and preperation. I know I could do the prep work but again I always just let them get on with it and most of the time it comes back to bite you.

Not taking anything away from Mac as he has got the bo!!ocks to go out and take on these jobs and the results are there for everyone to see

hey i take back what i said about the slice above the doorway, seeing the two windows are the focal point of the room and horizontally they are perfectly centralised, i would say the slice above door which would be out of view when you walk in would be a fair enough sacrifice in getting windows spot on. Still dont like the bath panel

Rich

Top work Mac.
That seems to be a popular tile choice.

I reckon that's what I should have done their Rich. Was that focused on matching the panel with the bath wall with the taps centered that when I got to the chimney stack corner I thought - bo***cks - that don't work!

Sometimes if i can't get a plastic trim to match,an L shaped polished chrome trim is classier and more discreet
What colour grout did you use on the floor?

If I have to use trim I always go for brushed aluminium square as the mitres are neat and the shiny chrome effect stuff scratches and marks so easily.

The grout and silicon was Mapei's Ultra colour Chocolate for the floors and Jasmine for the walls.
Used to use Brown for these type tiles but always thought it to look too reddish. Was worth ordering it in as it matches so much nicer.

I do the reveals last Steve just like how we were trained. Find the highest bit of the cill, lowest bit of head and widest bits of uprights with my laser.
Then I lay an off cut on the reveal at the highest/lowest or widest point and add about 3mm for bedding and adjust the laser to this line. Then cut and stick the wall tiles to this line so when I put the reveals in they will never be too proud.
Just read that back and it sounds confusing

picky picky how did the customer react thats the bigest acolade

I do the reveals last Steve just like how we were trained. Find the highest bit of the cill, lowest bit of head and widest bits of uprights with my laser.
Then I lay an off cut on the reveal at the highest/lowest or widest point and add about 3mm for bedding and adjust the laser to this line. Then cut and stick the wall tiles to this line so when I put the reveals in they will never be too proud.
Just read that back and it sounds confusing

Yeah, understand that. So when the reveals go in the tile that was cut and fixed up the wall will have a cut edge on show. Do you just rub these edges down.

The only reason I ask is ive never done a reveal in porkies so always use trim!

Also if your furthest out point on the upright reveal is at the bottom and you carry that line up and your only tiling half way up you always get a big gap at the top. In this case I just cut to the line of the wall

Again, its all in the prep

Top quality work wish i could do plumbing as i always get annoyed with plumbers that they know their goin to be putting up chrome towel rads that they still put in copper tails! Really good work keep posting up the pics think it inspires us all to do better!

That certainly looks like a top quality job Mac, very impressive!

I had one very similar, just before Christmas, where I had to do the same thing of knocking the toilet and ajoining bathroom through into one.
Was my first full bathroom refurb after my training. Came across a catalogue of problems ranging from the 2 windows being of slightly different heights to the old cast iron bath being higher than the new one, and hence the waste pipe wasn't low enough.
Anyway, I'll be looking out for that next time! We live and learn!

Like I say Mac, a good job well done

Bob