Tile or wood for tub surround
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weedyacres
15 years agoRelated Discussions
Tub won't fit?? Use 6.5x13 tile surround for tub?? HELP!
Comments (6)Thanks for all the replies! This is our first house, not our "forever" house. We are planning to finish the bath update so we can put our house on the market within the next 8-10 months. Then hopefully we'll be in our "forever" (or at least for a long time) house. :) The tub in the master is somekind of old, original cast iron tub. So I know it will be a pain in the butt for our GC to remove! I'm not much of a bath person except for occasionally, but my hubby likes to take them a little more than occasionally. Really this update is to make our home more attractive to potential buyers and hopefully secure us a fast sale. The master is one of the only things we haven't updated in our home, and we're not planning on spending a fortune. What I DON'T want to do is spend this amt of money period, and then wish I had done the tub. It's in really good condition, but it's so narrow and shallow. I wanted to potentially put in a deeper, wider one, but the walls are an issue. The non-plumbing side is my husband's closet, which is the same size as mine (not very big, but a "walk in," which is the plumbing side.) Moving a wall is an expense I'm not willing to undertake, so that's why I was wondering if we could hack into the wall just a bit where the tub is against my husband's closet. I havent talked about this with my GC yet. I'll do that this week. But y'all have seen that done?? Removing the tub and taking the time/money/effort to create a big walk-in shower is not what I wanted to do. We do have another tub in the hall bath, but not having a tub in the master might make someone not want our house. It's all about resale at this point! At the lowest remodel cost. :)...See MoreWWYD- Tiling the Tub Surround with Tricky Sized Tiles
Comments (4)I prefer odd numbers of courses. If you want larger tile with an odd number of courses, and would prefer rectangles over squares, let's go with three courses. Figure three courses, each tile being 6.5-ish inches high, grout will fill it to the full 20" height. To use fibonacci to determine a pleasing rectangular ratio for the tile, 6.5" high times 1.62 is about 10.5" for the width. So I'd cut each 13 by 20 tile into three 6.5" by 10.5" tiles. You could cut a 13" square into two almost 6.5" by 10.5s. That would give a decent looking running bond type of pattern. If you wanted five courses instead of three, your 20" of height would require a slightly smaller than 4" tall tile. Smaller due to material you'll lose when you cut the tile, and smaller to also allow for the grout joint between the courses of tile. 4" times 1.62 is about 6.5", so your tiles would be 4" tall by 6.5" long, less the grout joint width. Say 3-7/8" tall by about 6-1/4" wide. While you might still have to fudge the dimensions a bit due to material lost when cutting on the wet saw (blade kerf width), you can see that you could take a 13" by 20" tile and get 10 nicely proportioned 3-7/8" by 6-1/4" tiles out of each large tile with pretty much no waste. Just another idea. If you want squares, sure stacking the squares an infilling with mosaic would work....See MoreGlass tile transition to tub surround for undermounterd tub
Comments (1)Does the joint where the glass wall tile meets the deck need a special glass molding? I would prefer none just glass tile to solid surface. You can run the wall tile right to the tub deck, and caulk the intersection with color and texture matched caulk. Borders/liners are added for aesthetic and transitional interest. Sometimes it's purely design, sometimes for function, sometimes a combination. If your glass tile can stand on its own, and you'd prefer it to do so, then let it. I've not ever seen a glass grab bar or hand rail. Clear polycarbonate (I think it was PC) yes, but glass, no. Mongo...See Moretub surround for Kohler Archer soaker tub?
Comments (1)Cultured marble or Swanstone solid surface (expensive) tub walls. Really, tile surround for tub is one of the easiest DIY. It is also one of the most affordable tile jobs to hire out. Alternative Sterling Bath/Shower 18 high, 58 gal, 13 1/8 depth. Here is a link that might be useful: Sterling Accord Bath/Shower...See Morebill_vincent
15 years agoMongoCT
15 years agobill_vincent
15 years agoMongoCT
15 years agobill_vincent
15 years agoIf you want to meet up with him for real, shoot me an email, and I'll give him a call and hook you up. He's been all over the country this summer meeting up with and talking to forum members. He stopped up here a couple of weeks ago, and we got together along with Jim Carlin, the NE rep for the National Tile Contractors Association.
As I posted in the thread below, John's the "HIPPIE" in the middle with all the HAIR!!:
Here is a link that might be useful: RV Summer Excursion 08
susanlynn2012
15 years agobill_vincent
15 years agomalhgold
15 years agoMongoCT
15 years agoThat bathroom is the one that was used for the "Kerdi Shower" thread. Please, no additional posting on the Kerdi shower thread. It'll disappear if it hits 150 posts. So yeah, I have a few hundred photos of that bathroom being put together. Everything from building the cabinets to installing the trim.
The main part of the bath floor in that photo isn't tiled, it is brazilian cherry flooring.
The black tiled area that you see a raised platform that is used as a drying off area (shower/tub), it also serves as the curb for the shower and as a step to get in and out of the tub.
Here's a better photo:
I've used that black tile several times, it's a good product. Daltile Continental Slate, Asian Black.
The tile has good color, good texture, and I forget how many stamp patterns are in the series, but it can be installed without a repetitive pattern being noticed.
Not much of a problem in that bathroom, though as the black tile came in 12" squares and the cream in 13" squares. Every piece of tile in that bathroom is cut, so it was really easy to avoid any sort of pattern recognition.
On the outside edges of the curb I mitered the corners, then eased the sharp edge with a stone, then colored the grout in the joint to match the color of the tile. The goal was to make the side of the curb look more like solid blocks of "stone" instead of seeing a grout joint at the outside corner.
Mongo
patkel3_hotmail_com
15 years agoMongoCT
15 years agoThe face frame consists of the top rail, the bottom rail, and the four vertical stiles. In the cutaway drawing above, you can see that when the frame is bottomed out on the tub platform (nested between the baseboard and the cleat), there is a gap or clearance between the top of the frame's top rail and the bottom of the tub deck.
The frame can be lifted up, and when the top of the top rail hits the bottom of the tub deck, the bottom of the frame can be swung out in front of the baseboard, then dropped down and out of the assembly.
Each panel works the same way within each panel's hole in the face frame.
Clear as mud?
Mongo
pepperidge_farm
15 years agopatkel
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15 years agoMongoCT
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