Fitting a new bath

[Tennentslager]

I've bought the bath and taps and panels for three sides.

Also two bits of 1m x 2.4m wall panel.

Its a 1700 x 700 bath, old one has mould as it was never an over shower job.

so first Q is if i need wriggle room for taps...is the height of new bath exactly as old? Can i fit a flexy?

Next Q

Its a long narrow bathroom. 

Replce tile area as is, with wallboard...or

As wallboatd is 2400 x 2000 some other shape?

finally, wallboard behind bath or butt against top.

its a new straight shower bath, no lip,

no nothing just square 

[Tennentslager]

@Nickfromwales

[Nickfromwales]

13 minutes ago, Tennentslager said:

@Nickfromwales

You're supposed to say it 3 times....... anyhoo  

 

So, what we see is getting removed and replaced? You've bought a shower bath? e.g. one that can be stood upright in, and has the correct additional reinforcement etc.

[Tennentslager]

Aye

But its used daily for disabled son, he likes a soak.

And very occasionally for his support workers who have the odd shower.

Ergo the shower curtain can be out of matey boys way.

Its 90% for him 10% for staff team, how it looks is secondary to function. 

[Nickfromwales]

3 minutes ago, Tennentslager said:

how it looks is secondary to function. 

Agreed, but a bath that's not meant to be stood in moves and flexes a LOT, which causes seals / silicones / grouts to perish and the same issues to repeat themselves.

 

Most baths I fit with shower 'over' them are Trojan Cast. Bombproof. Even if only occasional use as a shower bath, it'll still need to not budge.

 

I always fit a batten along the wall, 2mm shy of where the underside of the bath will be, and set the bath into a fat bead of CT1, and use the same to bond the back edge of the bath to a tanked or primered wall, before sealing again, and then tiling.