Patching up for new electric shower

[foxhole]

Plain white tile cut to size .

 

[endecotp]

To re-iterate, I may only have a couple of cm visible on one side only. I guess I could fit a strip cut off a tile to fit there?

Could anyone please express a view on whether filling the main hidden area with (exterior) polyfilla, ready-mixed grout, plasterboard fill & joint compound, or mortar, would be sufficiently waterproof? These are the things which I currently have open bags or tubs of. I seem to spend a lot of money buying products and only using a few spoonfuls…

 

[Scally-Ho]

IMO you won't go far wrong by using a good mortar mix. In the past, tiles were always fixed with sand & cement bed.

 

[blup]

If you don’t want to cut a white tile to fit, consider a mosaic strip around the edge.

 

[endecotp]

In the end, I fitted an offcut of cement board, then a layer of readymix mortar, then a thin layer of polyfilla (because it’s white), and then a couple of coats of white gloss paint to make it a bit more waterproof. Careful positioning - and luck with the plumbing - has resulted in nothing visible from the room and just a few mm of paint visible from when you’re actually in the shower:

The main difficulty was that the four tiles were not perfectly level - unsurprisingly, since they were fitted around the shower so they could not have been matched up with each other. That has resulted in the cover not being perfectly flush everywhere.

P.S. it seems to be exactly the same shower that @pete01 has in post #2!

 

[Scally-Ho]

Thats what I call using your brain. With most problems to do with a property, a long think with weighing up all of the options will usually provide the solution .. well done!

 

[pete01]

In the end, I fitted an offcut of cement board, then a layer of readymix mortar, then a thin layer of polyfilla (because it’s white), and then a couple of coats of white gloss paint to make it a bit more waterproof. Careful positioning - and luck with the plumbing - has resulted in nothing visible from the room and just a few mm of paint visible from when you’re actually in the shower:

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The main difficulty was that the four tiles were not perfectly level - unsurprisingly, since they were fitted around the shower so they could not have been matched up with each other. That has resulted in the cover not being perfectly flush everywhere.

P.S. it seems to be exactly the same shower that @pete01 has in post #2!

Well done looks good, that's not my shower by the way just an example I found

 

[Jahjahbinks]

Some sort of panel?

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where can I find these?