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What's best practice & what normally takes place

  • 14-05-2014 5:45pm
    #1
    naughtysmurf
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    I've gutted the main bathroom, removed old bath & tiling & had a new shower tray installed, going to get a tiler in to tile the shower area & floor

    Looked at a few youtube videos showing the walls being waterproofed before tiles are fitted

    Is this best & standard practice for a tiler or do they just tend to come and fit the tiles?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Supercell
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    Mine just tiled, best practice or not, thats what he did.
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  • #3
    jameshayes
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    I think this is called 'tanking' - i believe there are 2 trains of thought, 1 for and 1 against.. that's all I know tbh


  • #4
    Buford T Justice
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    Is it a slabbed wall or block wall?

    If its upstairs, then I'd at least use an upstand on the shower tray like classi seal


  • #5
    naughtysmurf
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    Buford T Justice wrote: »
    Is it a slabbed wall or block wall?

    If its upstairs, then I'd at least use an upstand on the shower tray like classi seal

    It's upstairs, two sides of the shower tray are against block walls


  • #6
    Lex Luthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭Lex Luthor


    we recently gutted the bathroom but put in a wetroom and the walls and floor in the shower area got "tanked"
    However its only tanked about 0.5m up the walls and over the former on the floor area
    If you put in a shower tray then tanking is probably not going to help much if there is a leak in the silicon running around the shower tray/tile junction as it will get through
    I think you'll be ok, we had a shower tray in for 18yrs with no tanking and just tiles with grout with no leaks
    I'm no expert so other opinions may differ


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  • #7
    naughtysmurf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭naughtysmurf


    Yeah, meeting a tiler tomorrow, want to see what his plan for sealing the tray to the wall is, it's a large low profile tray, 1400mm X 900mm so want it done right..,not sure I'd have much long term confidence in just a bead of silicone between tile & tray but maybe that's enough if done right


  • #8
    Sleeper12
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    The most modern & best shower seal should have been fitted to the edges of the shower tray before it was plumbed in. This type of seal never fails.


  • #9
    whupdedo
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    In my experience any of the guys I know in building or tiling don't bother with tanking and I've never heard of a problem after, I done 6 upstairs bathrooms in a remodel last year where the tiler never tanked and their was never a problem since, obviously you can have problems but done right it doesn't give any trouble


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