Botched bathroom installation ?

[steggles123]

Hi folks,

I have wandered into a new to be bathroom after the tiler left for the day and noticed some questionable tiling.

Have a better look I see the shower tray gap - is it too thin for silicone? Cut tiles above tray.

Grouting in the corner join of shower

The gap (inch) were the ceiling meets - is there a remedy to be suggested for this?

Any ideas appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[richw]

I wouldn't worry about the shower tray line, but the boxing (pic 1) looks out of alignment at the vertex - maybe it's a trick on the image. You should ask what he's planning to do at the top.

 

[simplesteve]

First the bad news :- The gap around the top is entirely due to pp layout planning; he should have taken 75 mm off that bottom row to give 100mm around the top. There’s no fix that will look good imho. The worst looking option is to tile it. The second worst will be a pvc strip ( which is when you’ll find out how level your ceiling is). Depending on how well ventilated your bathroom is ( extra fan ?) you might consider puting up a cornice……..
The good news is I wouldn’t worry about the bottom row cuts, assuming the tray was was siliconed along the outside edges of the two contact walls before being shoved in.
But that box ( stack ? ) does look badly misaligned - and I don’t see any trim in it ?

 

[steggles123]

The pipe boxing is square although tiling less so. Your eyes are not playing tricks. Just took these now.

I can deal with slightly funky tiling in places.

Can you suggest a remedy?

Ie Fit some backerboard/drywall and cut tiles in to fit?
Fit bathroom ceiling ladding and Fit coving and be done with it?

 

[steggles123]

First the bad news :- The gap around the top is entirely due to pp layout planning; he should have taken 75 mm off that bottom row to give 100mm around the top. There’s no fix that will look good imho. The worst looking option is to tile it. The second worst will be a pvc strip ( which is when you’ll find out how level your ceiling is). Depending on how well ventilated your bathroom is ( extra fan ?) you might consider puting up a cornice……..
The good news is I wouldn’t worry about the bottom row cuts, assuming the tray was was siliconed along the outside edges of the two contact walls before being shoved in.
But that box ( stack ? ) does look badly misaligned - and I don’t see any trim in it ?

Hi SS,

Thanks for commenting on the dreadfullness.

I dont have the stomach to fight with a tradesman at the minute and not the finances to start over. I get it's s**t. I have asked him to stop. A bit embarrassed about getting someone else in to fix retrospectively.

There is no trim on either corner.

The room is 3mx3m-is and there is an extractor fan and a separate wall vent hole - I cannot be certain about the tray being siliconed when fitted - best if I assume it was not.

Am I best to have shower enclosure and tray removed and put back in or can the gap be siliconised, cleaned up and a shower sealant strip put over. Look awful I know.

 

[pete01]

Coving at the top maybe?

 

[steggles123]

Indeed. My first thought was some cornice/coving and move on from the eyesore.

 

[pete01]

Indeed. My first thought was some cornice/coving and move on from the eyesore.

You could even get some sort of profile and put an LED strip in the gap, pretend he meant it

 

[steggles123]

Interesting idea ... Concerns about moisture from a shower though.

On the flip side - glad I turned up before floor tiles were started ... Lord knows how that would turn out ‍

 

[simplesteve]

I could add an option4, though not cheap and a bit of work in it :- CLS batten the roof, run in a new ring of lighting, then put in a new ceiling with new lights.
And don’t let him anywhere near the floor !

 

[steggles123]

First the bad news :- The gap around the top is entirely due to pp layout planning; he should have taken 75 mm off that bottom row to give 100mm around the top. There’s no fix that will look good imho. The worst looking option is to tile it. The second worst will be a pvc strip ( which is when you’ll find out how level your ceiling is). Depending on how well ventilated your bathroom is ( extra fan ?) you might consider puting up a cornice……..
The good news is I wouldn’t worry about the bottom row cuts, assuming the tray was was siliconed along the outside edges of the two contact walls before being shoved in.
But that box ( stack ? ) does look badly misaligned - and I don’t see any trim in it ?

Just noticed there is a magnetic tile down below which leads to the pipework in the boxing in. I'm guessing that's a reason for no trim - maybe.

Can you suggest a solution for that or a type of trim?

 

[simplesteve]

as the trim has to go behind the tiles, I would remove the entire column of the ‘narrower’ tile and re-do with a trim put in. This still allows the magnetic tile to be remove. ( though I wouldn’t have put one in - I’d have tiled in a white plastic hinged access pane )

 

[steggles123]

as the trim has to go behind the tiles, I would remove the entire column of the ‘narrower’ tile and re-do with a trim put in. This still allows the magnetic tile to be remove. ( though I wouldn’t have put one in - I’d have tiled in a white plastic hinged access pane )

I somehow knew you were going to suggest that on both. Ha there's not enough room for a hinged door one as there's a WC close by. Maybe a custom sized one is available.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

As for the top I'd just go with tiles, without removing and redoing all of the tiling the unlevel grout lines and narrow strip can't be overcome but once everything's grouted up it'll be less noticeable.

 

[opps]

I have zoomed in on the images- my laptop screen has a 2k resolution. I cannot see any evidence of SBR or similar on the plasterboard boxing.

I hope he didn't just tile over the paper face on the plasterboard.