Bathroom tiling quandary

[RogerS]

Not sure how to proceed on this one.

The shower tray goes hard up against the studding. The tile-backer board is then screwed to the studding and ends just above the tiling upstand on the shower tray. So far so good. I'd planned to fit the tile-backer board on the wall and finish at the front edge of the shower tray...vertical line in red. This line is down the middle of that vertical the idea being that plasterboard would fill in gap.



The idea is plastered and painted to the left of that vertical line, tile-backer and tiles to the right (ie inside the shower area). But do I fit the tile-backer board before he plasters the lefthand side ? What about overspill of the plaster onto the tile-backer board? Tile adhesion...that sort of thing?

Or do I take the tile-backer board all the way over to the blue line and so not mess about with a thin plasterboard strip? If so then what's to stop him plastering over the tile-backer board and into the shower area (which will be tiled).

There's an even bigger puzzle I can't get my head round namely that the tile-backer board will have tiles on and so there will be the shower door assembly fitted into the tiles space but that door assembly will then leave a visible edge of the tiles going down that wall ...


Ditto at the top of the wall inside the shower itself. That room is tall and I'd rather not tile all the way to the ceiling so again there will be a lip where the tiles end and the plaster begins.

 

[timothyedoran]

I would put tile backer to the blue line as long as it is the same depth as the existing plaster. You don't want a kerb edge at the blue line. Then I would attach a batton where the red line is. This would stop the plaster from going past the line.

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[timothyedoran]

And I would put a horizontal batton where the top of the tiles will be.

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[Deejay]

there will be the shower door assembly fitted into the tiles space but that door assembly will then leave a visible edge of the tiles going down that wall ...
Afternoon Roger

Make a feature of it by studding inside the shower area, leaving a 3 or 4 inch tiled strip (at right angles to the main wall).

Or bring the wall out all the way to the door casing and tile all of it, including round the return.

If the backer board is the same as plasterboard, I believe it will support a greater weight of tiles if left unplastered.

Cheers

Dave

 

[RogerS]

there will be the shower door assembly fitted into the tiles space but that door assembly will then leave a visible edge of the tiles going down that wall ...
Afternoon Roger

Make a feature of it by studding inside the shower area, leaving a 3 or 4 inch tiled strip (at right angles to the main wall).

Or bring the wall out all the way to the door casing and tile all of it, including round the return.

If the backer board is the same as plasterboard, I believe it will support a greater weight of tiles if left unplastered.

Cheers

Dave

Hi Dave...any chance of a diagram as I'm struggling to picture what you mean?

 

[Deejay]

Hello Roger

PM me an address and I'll email a jpg.

Cheers

Dave

 

[RogerS]

Hello Roger

PM me an address and I'll email a jpg.

Cheers

Dave

Thanks Dave

 

[Deejay]

Afternoon all

This might work. I've just tried to resurrect a Photobucket account. What a palaver.

This should be the sketch



Hurrah!

I now realise that what I thought was a doorway isn't one so ignore that.

If the wall isn't too long you could run the studding right into the top left corner.

Cheers

Dave

 

[RogerS]

Thanks, Dave...interesting possibilities there.

 

[RogerS]

I've been recommended to take a look at Schluter for trims etc.