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The bathtub is level. Floor is not. What about the gap?

palimpsest
14 years ago

I am renovating a bath in a 1838 house. The bath is on the fourth floor of the house which is so unlevel outside the bathroom you feel yourself walking up hill.

In the bathroom, the tub touches the cement board at the back end but is shimmed about 3/4" -7/8" at the outlet end to make it level. How is this going to be resolved when laying the tile? (Its Daltile white octagon and dot, not a thicker larger format tile.) The tilesetter has about 2-1/2 feet of width to compensate for this, as well as the five foot length of the tub, but this is toward the door side of the room. How is the floor not going to curve up or have a "bump" in it.

Would it be better to use a quarter round radius tile to cover the gap and just caulk it along the tub edge?

The old floor was mortar (on the original wood floor) and there was a thick threshold area at the door and it still went "downhill" a little, but the tub set on the wood floor while this tub is set on the bed. In the old bathroom either the discrepancy was hidden or the tub was unlevel

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