Hi,
I realise that what I'm asking is generally not a good idea and you should generally fit the bath first and then tile afterwards, however, we recently moved into a new house and the bathroom was only a few months old and therefore like new. The only problem is that it had a walk in shower but no bath which is not ideal as we have 2 young children.
As the whole bathroom has been tiled floor to ceiling I don't really want to have to rip the tiles off the walls and start from scratch. I thought about channeling out a strip of tile to slot the edge of the bath into but am worried about cracking the tiles (as we only have 1 spare tile that was left in the garage by the precious owners and no tile shops stock anything like it).
This leaves me with the slightly worrying option of butting the bath up to the tiles and trying to get a good watertight seal (especially as the room below has an artex ceiling containing asbestos so we really can't afford any leaks from a safety aspect), so I was just wondering if anyone has any ideas/advice on the best way to get a good watertight seal with the bath butted against the tiles?
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks,
Ian
I realise that what I'm asking is generally not a good idea and you should generally fit the bath first and then tile afterwards, however, we recently moved into a new house and the bathroom was only a few months old and therefore like new. The only problem is that it had a walk in shower but no bath which is not ideal as we have 2 young children.
As the whole bathroom has been tiled floor to ceiling I don't really want to have to rip the tiles off the walls and start from scratch. I thought about channeling out a strip of tile to slot the edge of the bath into but am worried about cracking the tiles (as we only have 1 spare tile that was left in the garage by the precious owners and no tile shops stock anything like it).
This leaves me with the slightly worrying option of butting the bath up to the tiles and trying to get a good watertight seal (especially as the room below has an artex ceiling containing asbestos so we really can't afford any leaks from a safety aspect), so I was just wondering if anyone has any ideas/advice on the best way to get a good watertight seal with the bath butted against the tiles?
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks,
Ian