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Bathroom renovation tile and floor transition at doorway

2 years ago

To any bathroom renovating companies or tiling pros out there, is this right?

We're in the middle of a bathroom renovation and the tiler has installed the screed at a slight angle within the door frame. The screed butts up to the door jam on one side and is 15mm short of the door jam on the other side. There is a spacer between the door jam and the screed on one side to secure this gap. When I questioned this, they replied that they were making the room square for tiling purposes and we wouldn't notice it when everything is done.

Once that spacer is removed on th 15mm short side, there will be an obvious gap/hole in the flooring. What am I missing? Why didn't they butt up to both door jams? Are they cutting costs/giving themselves an easier job? Am I right to get them to fix this?

The bathroom floor will be 50mm higher than adjoining room's floor once finished. The adjoining room is a bedroom with carpeted floor. See pics for more detail. Spacer is on the right side of the door looking into the bathroom or bottom of photo looking at it from above. Third pic is looking out just to give perspective.

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HALLETT & Co.

2 years ago

So you have two issues, the step up and the the transition not aligning with the door. The step up had to happen because that’s how they created the recess for the zero entry shower. The transition at the door needs to be parallel to that wall, with large format tile you won’t notice that it’s slightly off from the grout line half a meter away. You will ALWAYS see it’s off from the jamb.

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weedyacres
2 years ago
What size of tile are you using for the floor? If it's large format, then they should just scribe the tile to the out-of-square room. If it's smaller, like 2" hex or something, then that would be more visible cut on the slight diagonal. I will say that I like their attention to detail, as they're planning the tile layout in advance, rather than trying to rectify things mid-tiling.

It's likely that with carpet butting up to the tile will mask the gap, and no one will notice.

The 50 mm step up does give me pause, though. That's a 2" step up, quite a toe-stubber. How are you planning to ease that transition?
rmaunder
Original Author
2 years ago
Thanks for your reply Tiles are large format 600x1200. i’m not happy wirh a gap and can’t imagine adding more height to cover the transition.

Agree with the step up and also questioned this as last bathroom wasn’t as high. Response was walk-in shower required the addional height to accommodate drop for drainage.

Transitioning will be some sort of ramp, will find out more today.
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rmaunder
Original Author
2 years ago
Found out today that bulder is squaring floor angle to room rather than square to doorway. Have been given option to move angle to be square with doorway but he is insisting that cutting the tile at a slight angle to fit space will look weird. Not sure what to do.

Pics of another project he finished with similar squaring issue. Thoughts??

Here is our floor with spacer removed.
weedyacres
2 years ago
You do want the tile to be square with the room, not the doorway. Again, good attention to detail. But with tile that gigantic you'll never notice that it's cut in an ever-so-slight trapezoid. That's what they should do.

IF you get to loggerheads on this, at a minimum shift that metal edging towards the bedroom so that the ends butt up to the center portion of the jamb that protrudes into the opening. It will be less noticeable there than to have a big gap where the spacer is.
rmaunder thanked weedyacres
rmaunder
Original Author
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
Thank you both for your replies, this is exactly what I was thinking but my builder was so adamant that I’d notice the tile cut and hate it. I just needed some ’backup’ advice to confirm my decision.

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