Solid surface bathroom walls - quartzite? any experience?
Mary J
last year
Hi all - we're thinking about doing solid surface (I think that's what you call it) walls in our master. Slabs on the walls and small pieces on the floor of the shower. We're considering quartzite for this. Has anyone done this? Did it hold up okay? I think marble would look awesome, but hoping for less maintenance headaches by going with a tougher stone.
Separate question - would you go polished or honed for the walls? And if polished, would it be weird to do honed for the floor? Thanks all!
Here's an inspiration picture. Except we wouldn't do marble and would do smaller pieces on the floor.
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Has any one finished their own solid surface kitchen
Comments (5)Hi, Thanks for the encouragement and suggestions the Corian fabrication site is really great. We are definately going to give this a try. We had heart failure when we got the labor bill for fabricating the countertops $50 for every corner and some outrageous price per foot for the ogee edging.We were too naive. We are just going to cut rectangle door fronts from the remaining material and soften the edges. From the Corian site it looks like the subsurface may need to be cement board which is available but will really be heavy for a door. It doesn't get any better than living on St John. We have been in the house for a year the kitchen is very useable but needs lots of finishing. The backsplash the mantel the dumb waiter and some built ins are holding eveything up. Electricans are $100 plus per hour and we have lot's of electric to finish. Hopefully I can learn to post pictures by the time it is done I am technically challenged....See MoreWood flooring in bathroom - experience?
Comments (23)this is very timely, since we just discovered a toilet seal leak...we have hardwoods in the baths knowing the risk, however the toilet had never leaking in the years we have been here, so murphy's law rears it's head again... that said, i would still use the hardwood as it just 'works' for our home, which is a smaller condo with layout issues and it helps tremendously with 'flow' what we did do however was use a piece of hardward as a door unraised 'threshold' ..we did this in the case of a flooring water related disaster so that we could cleanly remove and replace the flooring with either more hardwood or tile should we change our minds....we purchased quite a bit of extra hardwood because we did the entire level (kitchen included) and we wanted to make sure we could have replacement boards if needed...the leak hasn't done any major damage, we have turned the water off to the toilet and will be reseating it...i may get by without any noticeable damage, we're going to wait about a week to see how the wood responds to being wet... good luck!...See MoreQuartzite in the bathroom
Comments (4)We have been using our white macaubas quartzite counter in our master bathroom since October. We also have it as our shower threshold and on the top of a pony wall in the shower. It is polished and sealed and we've had no problems with etching at all....See MoreBathroom: How to clean/fix moldy/cracked surface, get rid of buildup
Comments (8)Agree with the above and would like to add that in my experience, the dust from toilet paper tearing and the skin cells that we slough off in the bathroom just build up on surfaces around the toilet and sink for those of us who do not wipe these surfaces down every week. I have some things near my toilet that just get covered with dust. Then anything on the toilet itself is sitting on colder porcelain. It is colder because of the cold water it is holding. In the humid air of the bathroom that means that water then condenses on the outer surface of the cold porcelain, mixes with the microscopic skin cells and paper fluff and powder and it just STICKS to the surface. It builds up around the tabs of the toilet seat screws because that is where the dust stops when it is blowing around the room. Any sharp angles on a toilet will do the same thing. The solution is to wipe surfaces more frequently. I had to start buying the disinfectant wipes when I had an incontinent dog. So, now that I have them in the house, I will use them in the bathroom. I wipe the toilet flush handle, the top of the seat lid, the underside of the seat lid, the seat and the underside, then I go behind the seat and get the area you photographed. Next, I get the rim. I might use another wipe and do the door handles, the switches, the faucet and handles on the tap, then the tank lid, then the outside of the toilet bowl and use the last wipe to redo the rim if it was still not perfect. I always move from the cleanest places to the grimiest places. A third wipe would do the windowsill and the counter. Now, I may not do all three wipes at one time, or in one day. I may see an area that is yucky and do one wipe's worth that day, then another a few days later. I also have disposable rubber gloves around and if I am in the mood to clean I will put on one or a pair and scrub the toilet and do all the wiping and vacuum and mop the floor. My goal is to not be embarrassed to let someone use my bathroom if they should drop by. I am a messy housekeeper, but I can still be a CLEAN messy housekeeper, I figure!...See More
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