Re-tiling Shower

[diynoob]

Hi,

I had water leaking from the kitchen ceiling, from the shower in the room above. Some genius had tiled up to the shower tray upstand, and then stuck a sliver of tile on the upstand using non mold-proof sealant. Its been moldy and leaking for more than 10 years I guess.

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• diynoob
• 9 Mar 2014
• 1

The whole shower area will need to come out including floorboards and plasterboard. Now the thing is, the rest of the room isn't too bad. It was definitely not done by the same person, the shower has been added some time after the bathroom was built.

The tiles are ok and the grouting and cutting looks fine. I don't want to tile up to the diagonal ceiling if it can be avoided. Also the plaster board will come away if I try and remove all the existing tiles, all the walls are stud. The tiles look old though and I can't find anything similar. The size is not metric either, seems to be 6x8 inches.

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• diynoob
• 9 Mar 2014
• 1

Any hope that I can make a 'feature' shower area using different tiles or is it going to look stupid unless the whole room is ripped out?

Thanks.

 

[footprints]

Looks like you have a nice lip on that shower base I would tile on tile to bring the tiles right down onto the ledge no chance of leakage then.

 

[diynoob]

Yes if only they'd used a full (opr even half) a tile at the bottom it would have been fine. It has to come out now though so I can repair the wall and floor so I'll probably replace the shower tray anyway.

I found the manufacturer of the tiles so I'll see if I can get more, not hopeful though.

 

[footprints]

How about a mosaic border around the shower tray in a complimenting colour?

 

[diynoob]

Thanks, yes that might work. It depends how high up the wall I have to clear. It looks pretty rancid and has rotted through what appears to be 3 layers of plasterboard.

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• diynoob
• 9 Mar 2014
• 1