Tiled Shower Floor

[tdvit]

Hi guys! I want to renovate my bathroom and in it my shower I want to take out the standing unit and just tile the floor. Is this job as easy as it sounds. My biggest worry is do I need to layer the floor (as its upstairs and its a wooden floor) with anything before I tile it? any advice would go a long way! thanks a mill tdvit

[woofgang]

Tiling a floor is no big deal...making it reliably waterproof is! You sound to me asthough you want to make a kind of wet room, where there is no shower enclosure as such, just a floor which slopes towards the shower drain. To do this, the whole floor has to be waterproofed and made rigid (all wooden floors flex just a little bit when walked on) Really posh bathroom shops can tell you what is involved, also if you have a Total Care shop near you (equipment for people with disabilities), then they may also be able to give information. As I speak, we have a hole in the plaster in our kitchen ceiling caused by a teeny (about half a pint a day) leak in our bathroom floor. I worry that you will be storing up grief for yourself if you do this....

[sft42]

The other big downside to a tiled shower florr is that you are liable to go skating around like a pi55ed up torville and dean on the surface......B&Q do a newish product called tile on timber which stay slightly elastic and flexes with the wooden flooring.

[woofgang]

sft42 is right, the wet rooms and level access showers that I have seen have a special flooring that looks a bit like mezzanine without the shine and is totally non slip

[robber1]

I have the type of floor you mention. It is like a linoleum but modern and extends in a curve up the wall for about four inches (10cm). It is stuck to the floor with a waterproof adhesive. The wall tiles come down and overlap the flooring that is on the wall. The whole area is then waterproof. Ask most bathroom Co, suppliers and they will advise.

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