another bathroom

[mic-d]

Here are a few photos of a bathroom I finished today. First one shows the mortar floor I've described a few times in posts - a few minor imperfections but overall absolutely flat. The wall tiles are set with a mastic adhesive, starting anywhere since there's no slump (mostly) (With smaller tiles I use a ledger and start one row up from the bottom. The ledger is used with smaller tiles to give a nice straight line of tiles. It's easy with these 400x400 tiles to just follow a line. ) The mosaics are set in mastic from the top down, following horizontal guide lines. The block of mosaics is held by a steel float or trowel below the top row on the block and pressed onto the adhesive bed. Then the steel float is rubbed over the tiles to bed them in. A 3mm notched trowel is used for the mosaics so the adhesive doesn't squeeze through the tiles. The cove on the floor in photo 2 was needed to cover some badly postioned water services.
These tiles were polished porcelain and very hard but I still only used 3 simple tools. A Sigma scoring cutter, an angle grinder fitted with a mini arbortech and diamond blade and an old cheap, dodgy Ryobi tile saw that's done too many jobs already. With these tools I can do everything I need to - even neat bevel cuts on porcelain.

Cheers
Michael

[mic-d]

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[zacnelson]

You did an amazing job with that cove. Cutting all those small slivers of tile must have been a nightmare!

I reckon those mosaic tiles, even though technically they look very neat and well-applied, are actually a bit ghastly in colour. Normally people remove tiles like that from old houses, instead of putting them in new houses! Although maybe the photo doesn't do them justice?

[mic-d]

You did an amazing job with that cove. Cutting all those small slivers of tile must have been a nightmare!

Thanks Zac
Not really small slivers, the floor tile runs under the cove to the wall and the cove sits on top. Makes it look like thin tiles tho which is not a great look.

Cheers
Michael

[Dirty Doogie]

Very nice Mic - I like the constrast between the small mosiacs and the larger tiles - I think it works well.

I'm intrigued by the coving - I've never done that myself but in the pics it seems to create a smooth flow in the line of the tiles from the floor and up the wall.

Isn't the coving going to muck up sitting the vanity and maybe toilet?

Cheers Doog

[mic-d]

Hi Doog
Luckily I thought about the toilet pan before I did the cove and discovered the two would clash. If you have a close look at the photos you'll see that the cove pinches in to nothing at the pan and then back out again. The vanity is wall mounted so no problems there!

Cheers
Michael