Help!!!!

So every time you take a shower water is going to build up on the tile between the tub deck and the lip of the tub? Make 100% sure that is caulked properly or you will have moldy framing quickly. Is the floor just dry laid currently or are the sheet outlines optical illusions?

In this picture the floor was just dry laid. It is now grouted. That floor will also be in the shower.
Thank you for your input!

Harley & Co
I forgot to mention,that is quartz on the tub deck.

It does seem that …aesthetically ….it will be a challenge to use so many tile sizes …colors…and finishes with such a variation of angles ..sisizes

(Sorry) sizes of spaces to cover and plethora of surfaces…let alone be sure of the waterproof element ..i would simplify at least size or color

Since all of the materials have been bought. Are there any thoughts on how to pull this together. Due to many many delays .. tile was bought some time age and I’m not sure if it can be returned. Feeling overwhelmed!!!

I'm sorry to hear. Do you think you have enough of the white tile for the walls and tub?

Or how about doing the tub in the quartz and the rest in the white tile?

What's the orange grid stuff? I've seen water proofing stuff before, I just don't remember orange. I can't quite make out what the writing says.

Surprised you are not familiar with the schluter shower waterproofing system. Do your research.
Thought this site would be helpful. Just seems like a lot of snarky ppl.

I never asked for advise on the construction of my project..just tile advice. Once again!!! Do your research pro. You clearly aren’t up to date on the best waterproofing systems available. I’m sure someone would be so lucky to hire you and your bad attitude.

Wow Michelle…I am beginning to think that attitude may be the root of all these problems🤷🏻‍♀️.. keep in mind you are asking for free advice…

Michelle, you are the one who is not well-versed in waterproofing. The shower itself might be waterproof, but the tub installation is not. Are you seriously going to rely on a caulk joint at the tub and faucet to protect your structure?

You asked for advice (not advise) on your tile. You got that advice, but weren't happy with it. That's ok, you don't have to like it or act upon it.

You all do understand this job is not complete s

Thanks for all your unsolicited mansplaining!!! If any

If anyone else would like to discuss tile design… I’m open

I'm not a pro. I posted here years ago asking about tile installation. The pros on here saw in the pictures I posted that the waterproofing was done all wrong and saved me from a very expensive mistake. I asked the contractor about the waterproofing and they quit. I hired a real pro, recommended by folks on this site, and the new contractor fixed all the wrong-done waterproofing and built me a wonderful bathroom.

I know it's hard to hear bad news, but I'm forever grateful to the pros on here that saved my a**. After you think about things for a bit, if you are willing, I'm sure the pros on here could give you specifics to ask your contractor about. You're spending a lot of money and it would be a shame to build something that might fail and damage your home's structure. That could lead to having to do it all over again and including fixing the structure.

Who has wood framing anything inside a shower? Much less wood framing not covered with waterproofing? Then gets mad that their ”one of every column” tile choices isn't thought of as one of as the best design choices since subway was invented?

Don’t forget about grout colors and how that effects the busyness (or not) of the look.

Just regarding tile choices - it’s just too many. There should be 2 materials not 5. That is the bottom line. I like what @cpartist advised at the top of this thread.

I am sorry, but you are going to have to lose money on the tile, and that’s the truth. It’s not what you want to hear, but it will be worse to live with a cacophony of surfaces that you will have to look at each and every time you use the bathroom.

Plus when you go to sell the home with that bathroom, a buyer might want to reduce the price by what it will cost them to rip out and replace the 5 different surfaces.

See if you can sell the tile on Craig’s List or FB Marketplace, and recover a little something.

Surprised you are not familiar with the schluter shower waterproofing system. Do your research.
Thought this site would be helpful. Just seems like a lot of snarky ppl.

Well no, I didn't recognize the waterproofing system. That's why I asked, to find out. I wasn't being snarky. I figured it would be easier to just ask in the thread than try to research what it was. It happens sometimes in threads around here, someone does not know and asks. It isn't meant to cause harm or be unhelpful to the OP topic. Often it can bring up points that might not have been thought of or noticed that could also be helpful beyond the OP.

I learn something new every day. Today it was the orange stuff is Schulter Kerdi. And that you are apparently extremely stressed about your bathroom situation. I feel it would probably be the better part of wisdom to not proceed to offering an option about the actual tile situation at this point. May you have luck in your endeavors.

If anyone else would like to discuss tile design… I’m open

I offered a solution but obviously you didn't like it. And that's ok. I don't have another solution for you because I agree. It's too much as you designed it, but if you're happy with it, go for it. I don't have to live with it. You do. :)

Plus you were offered some advice that you really should look into with your tile "pros" to make sure you won't have water damage in the near future. Trust me in that if you have to redo the wet room area because of poorly done waterproofing, it will be a very big hit to your budget in the not so distant future.

Now having said that, it's possible the pros on here are wrong, but now's the time to find out for sure.

You have too many tile choices. Save more than half of the tiles for another project. Use the same quartz from the tub deck for the shower walls, and calm that down some.

Keep the patterned floor tile as the pattern. If it looks better than what you show. It looks badly set in those pics. I fear that with the shower building skill shown that you will have a full redo to plan very soon. Or home damage from water penetration.

I see a red flag in the way the floor tile is laid out in the fourth picture-I can tell where the hex tile sheets are just laid next to each other versus offset (?)-so when the floor is grouted, there will be a thicker grout line in between the tile sheets: the grout lines will not be even. A professional tiler would be able to address that via layout. If the tile installer doesn’t know this, what else do they not know? I encourage you to pay attention to AJCN’s insight.

pieballerina, above she said the floor tiles have not been set yet. She just laid them out to check the pattern arrangement.

My apologies-thank you cpartist!

Michelle, send me a PM