Hi
I'm new to the forum and just need a little advice with regards to tiling a bathroom floor.
My parents have decided they want a new bathroom and naturally my father wants to do most of it himself rather than pay for a professional to do a proper job. He wants to just take up the current cork tiles and make use of the floorboards if they're in good enough condition. I would much prefer to put down some decent ceramic tiles. I'm guessing the cork tiles have been laid directly onto the floorboards, but I could be wrong.
If we were to go with the floorboard idea, what would we need to do to make them suitable for use in a bathroom? Presumably there is some sort of water-proofing under or on the current tiles which we would loose once they're gone, so we will surely have to treat the floorboards with something. I imagine there'll also be a gap between the boards which will need to be filled.
Personally I don't think using the boards is a good idea and would much rather put down some tiles which leads me to my second question. If we do tile, I'll put down 15mm WBP ply directly on the floorboards as suggested elsewhere on the forum and tile onto that with a suitable flexible powdered(?) adhesive, but should I do the whole floor, even under where the bath and shower enclosure will go? None of the materials will be cheap, so I don't want to do the whole floor if I don't have to. I read on another post that tiling the whole floor has its advantages, but this was in reference to tiling a kitchen. Do the same pros and cons apply to a bathroom too?
On another note, when tiling the walls should I tile the whole wall first THEN put the bath, shower etc in or tile AFTER they're installed. Tiling before would seem to solve the problem of cutting tiles to odd shapes to fit around the appliances.
I apologise if this has been answered elsewhere. From reading the forum I think I have a pretty good idea of what to do, but I thought it prudent to ask after explaining my specific situation.
Thanks for reading.
Toby
I'm new to the forum and just need a little advice with regards to tiling a bathroom floor.
My parents have decided they want a new bathroom and naturally my father wants to do most of it himself rather than pay for a professional to do a proper job. He wants to just take up the current cork tiles and make use of the floorboards if they're in good enough condition. I would much prefer to put down some decent ceramic tiles. I'm guessing the cork tiles have been laid directly onto the floorboards, but I could be wrong.
If we were to go with the floorboard idea, what would we need to do to make them suitable for use in a bathroom? Presumably there is some sort of water-proofing under or on the current tiles which we would loose once they're gone, so we will surely have to treat the floorboards with something. I imagine there'll also be a gap between the boards which will need to be filled.
Personally I don't think using the boards is a good idea and would much rather put down some tiles which leads me to my second question. If we do tile, I'll put down 15mm WBP ply directly on the floorboards as suggested elsewhere on the forum and tile onto that with a suitable flexible powdered(?) adhesive, but should I do the whole floor, even under where the bath and shower enclosure will go? None of the materials will be cheap, so I don't want to do the whole floor if I don't have to. I read on another post that tiling the whole floor has its advantages, but this was in reference to tiling a kitchen. Do the same pros and cons apply to a bathroom too?
On another note, when tiling the walls should I tile the whole wall first THEN put the bath, shower etc in or tile AFTER they're installed. Tiling before would seem to solve the problem of cutting tiles to odd shapes to fit around the appliances.
I apologise if this has been answered elsewhere. From reading the forum I think I have a pretty good idea of what to do, but I thought it prudent to ask after explaining my specific situation.
Thanks for reading.
Toby
