Bath Surround / Boxing In, and concealed pipework

[Construction Channel]

please tell me the waste pipe is a hula hoop.....

[Onoff]

  On 29/12/2017 at 12:14, Construction Channel said:

please tell me the waste pipe is a hula hoop.....

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Yellow insulating tape!

[Construction Channel]

  On 29/12/2017 at 12:40, Onoff said:

 

Yellow insulating tape!

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Shame. Very impressive all the same though  

[Onoff]

  On 29/12/2017 at 12:52, Construction Channel said:

Shame. Very impressive all the same though  

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This is 1:10 scale. Hula Hoop probably good at 1:5?

 

Can't stop, off to get print more tiles! 

 

 

[Barney12]

I don’t like that small tile cut on the left of the main wall. 

I think you should move the wall  

[Construction Channel]

  On 29/12/2017 at 13:08, Onoff said:

 

This is 1:10 scale. Hula Hoop probably good at 1:5?

 

Can't stop, off to get print more tiles! 

 

 

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I was going to say that I’m sure you could have mocked this up on cad and made any alterations a lot quicker. But then again who am I to say about doing things quickly. ?

[Onoff]

  On 29/12/2017 at 13:58, Barney12 said:

I don’t like that small tile cut on the left of the main wall. 

I think you should move the wall  

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Nor me. It gets worse when I tile the stub wall, I get another line of small tiles:

 

 

Half debating more vertical mosaics in that corner?

 

I wonder if stretcher bond all over rather than stacked would work better and get me round the problem corners?

Edited December 29, 2017 by Onoff

[Nickfromwales]

I think a few slaps across the face may be in order. ? The fact is that nobody makes tiles to fit your bathroom. Get over it and you'll soon see that cuts are normal. 

On the window wall simply bring the two tiles in the centre together, then cut the mosaics out of the tiles. That'll give the illusion of continuity with the grout lines and give you bigger rips on the right hand side.

You've just got too much going on in one room to be this particular, so compromise at least a little or you'll never get it tiled. Oh, and putting extra vertical strips of mosaic in instead of smaller cuts of tile will look ? I promise you. ??

[PeterW]

  On 29/12/2017 at 13:58, Barney12 said:

I don’t like that small tile cut on the left of the main wall. 

I think you should move the wall  

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I think he should just make some 6.973mm tile spacers (Waterjetted from 316 stainless...) and that would work fine and get rid of the cuts .... 

[Onoff]

  On 29/12/2017 at 15:46, Nickfromwales said:

On the window wall simply bring the two tiles in the centre together, then cut the mosaics out of the tiles. That'll give the illusion of continuity with the grout lines and give you bigger rips on the right hand side.

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Ta. To the rescue as per usual! You mean like this?

 

 

(There's an art to this, can't just start blindly slapping tiles on! )

[MikeSharp01]

The old chicken and egg problem - what comes first the tiles or the walls.. have you thought of switching from landscape to portrait for the tiles they may create a better layout - I dimly recall there is maths for this but I can't find it. It's something to do with the aspect ratio of the tiles matching the aspect ratio for the walls - all of which look like they are higher than they are wide. 

[Nickfromwales]

  On 29/12/2017 at 17:56, Onoff said:

You mean like this?

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Yup. ?

[Onoff]

  On 30/12/2017 at 00:03, Nickfromwales said:

Yup. ?

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So that line of rips up the rhs of the window and at cill level is "acceptable"?

Edited December 30, 2017 by Onoff

[Nickfromwales]

  On 30/12/2017 at 00:21, Onoff said:

 

So that line of slivers up the rhs of the window is "acceptable"?

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Yes. Nowt wrong with them. When it's grouted up you'll wonder what the fuss was about. . 

The cuts under the window will soon mellow too, but that's about as thin as you'll want. You cant really do anything about that as it'll screw you for the bath if you do, and that's not what I'd do. 

Edited December 30, 2017 by Nickfromwales

[Onoff]

  On 30/12/2017 at 00:23, Nickfromwales said:

Yes. Nowt wrong with them. When it's grouted up you'll wonder what the fuss was about. . 

The cuts under the window will soon mellow too, but that's about as thin as you'll want. You can really do anything about that as it'll screw you for the bath if you do, and that's not what I'd do. 

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Most of that area under the window will be covered by the heated towel rail which might help take the eye off things! 

[Nickfromwales]

  On 30/12/2017 at 00:25, Onoff said:

 

Most of that area under the window will be covered by the heated towel rail which might help take the eye off things! 

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Yup. Good thing to remember, that things can be used for obscurity . 

[Onoff]

The heated towel rail looks like it will take the eye of that area under the window. Need to rethink as madam had decided the rips up the rhs of the window will annoy her!

 

 

Thinking the basin will hide any small rips to the right of the towel rail if I revert to that.

 

Basin...how to model?

 

Idiot nephew saw the model and said "Doll's house, have you turned?". Daren't tell him I had 18 Action Men and one Barbie! 

 

[Nickfromwales]

Jesus. 

If we're against you AND the better half, now could be a good time to shut BH. ?

[Onoff]

  On 30/12/2017 at 19:54, Nickfromwales said:

Jesus. 

If we're against you AND the better half, now could be a good time to shut BH. ?

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What and miss all this?

 

 

 

[Onoff]

This could be our winner. Trying to sell it that the rips to the left of the window, adjacent to the mosaic will be offset by the mosaic which will draw your eye. Also there'll be a blind on that section above the window.

 

 

[Nickfromwales]

Is that a hand towel or a bath towel?

Take me now Lord. 

[dpmiller]

must be a hand towel, it's not folded.

 

also: no kids in that house else it's be in a crumpled heap anyway...

[MikeSharp01]

I think he should immediately start work with the welder to create a shrink ray then he could shrink the kids, or perhaps the nephew, into the model to get the complete impression. I guess creaĺting a shrink ray and finishing this bathroom are close bed fellows in terms of the time horizon. BUT the one big advantage of the shrink ray is that you can adjust the tile sizes to fit exactly so the problem goes away. Wonder what else would go away!

[dpmiller]

hopefully not the towel. Everybody needs to know where their towel is.

[Construction Channel]

  On 30/12/2017 at 22:09, Onoff said:

This could be our winner. Trying to sell it that the rips to the left of the window, adjacent to the mosaic will be offset by the mosaic which will draw your eye. Also there'll be a blind on that section above the window.

 

 

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looks like you have used the rest of the tile you cut before the mosaic to carry on which IMO looks fine. only suggestion would be to mirror the same cuts on the left-hand wall.

 

you cant rush perfection, but as Nick said earlier once its grouted you will be the only person that cares