Doing Ceramic Tile Around The Tub
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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2014
- When the old bathroom gets torn down, the new one has to be working to take its place. In order to use the bathtub, the tiles need to be done around it and the fixtures installs. This time, I set those tiles.
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This little czcams.com/users/postUgkxVoi3B4CB6Oygq1-vo4OTL1M_M5JkrXif tub works perfect in our 6 x 6 shower and is easy to get in and out. Also easy to drain.
Nice job.......Can I make this suggestion for anyone starting the same job...When you silicone around the tub make sure it is the mould resistant type, also fill the tub with water until the sealant cures. Doing this will prevent it tearing and pulling away from the wall the first time you use the bath.
never heard of this but Makes A Ton Sense!
Polyurethane-Based Sealants Meeting ASTM C-920 ; Sikaflex®-1A. ELASTOMERIC JOINT SEALANT / ADHESIVE
I always plum a center line on the back wall and center the first tile in the middle to insure the same size tile piece at each side wall, although a little less important for a subway tile. Also, good practice to tile each row (back, fixture side and head side) before starting the next row. This helps to keep all the gout lines lined up and matching as minor adjustments can be accomplished as the tile progresses up the wall, especially if your tile is going all the way up to the ceiling.
Thank you! This is the visual help I was looking for. Your video and directions were great. I have had my cement backerboard up without any tile for a while now and I was loosing confidence in starting the tiling myself. I got my confidence back now. Thanks again!
Thanks for all of the comments and sorry I haven't respnded to any - I'm on a video editing rampage, to try to catch up to the present day. There will be another video tomorrow morning on grouting these tiles, and another on Friday. Maybe Saturday too, if I can get them done.
Slowly but surely plowing forward. Nicely done John!
Well done! Love the subway tile look, and I plan on using them on my next tile project.
As a younger first time home buyer, thanks for the videos!
always enjoy watching this high quality workmanship! thanks for sharing!
This is EXACTLY the job I am about to attempt. Everything about my site looks the same, even my 3x6 white tiles and window. I used more backerboard and less drywall in my bathroom though, so more tiling right up to the ceiling for me! Thanks for the tips.
Am with you on the grouting. Another enjoyable video, thanks.
Great job tiling the bathtub. Looks very nice.
Excellent tips on laying tile. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Great job on the tub surround. I will lay my first tiles tomorrow.
You did an outstanding job, good detailed instructions, I learned a lot.
Excellent how-to. Very nice work. Thank you.
best tiling video I've seen, watched a lot ,laughed out loud a few times "couldn't find my trowel ,got to cut the spaces, I'm going to run out of tiles "nothing bothers this guy that's how work should be not like the other videos people rushing around acting like it's the be all and end all . Nice work thank you.
Nice job John getting there.
"what do real men know about icing or cake batter"
LOL THAT REALLY MADE ME LAUGH
I would say something, but the last time I made icing, I used granulated sugar.
Great job John! I envy you for having drywall as a base. Here in Holland its mostly brick walls.
Dude you rule! Great job!
Great use of bull-noses tiles. I can't seem to get around the look of metal termination strips and I wish more contractors used bull-nosed tiles - great stuff John
Good instructional video, Thanks John. You say, I'm not that guy, made me laugh cause neither am I. Haha
Thanks Mac!
You made that look easy!
Great job, good teaching.
I wish that I could hire you to video call and consult me while I tackle my bathroom tile. You make it looks so effortless!
Very nice job. As usual I learned from the video. One of the things I learned was I don't want to do tile work. However, your video made me realize it is not as hard as I thought it might be, and I could do it if I had to with a little patients and taking my time. Thank You. By the way, the consistency of the thin set looked like pale peanut butter to me. Hey, I sometimes think with my stomach.
Great job. Great detail.
Nice explaintion and video john! When i placed tiles, i applied a little pressure and wiggle or place it with a circular motion to place them. But that was with bigger tiles. For smaller tiles i think that does not really matter much.
nice video John. I just bought some used putty knives and trowels for this type of job, which I was in the process of cleaning up when I saw your new was video up :)
Great result.
Very helpful video, one of the best I've seen, thanks a lot.
Beautiful job. I wish I had watched this before I started my tiling project. I see several things I’ve done wrong already. Sigh. But mortar should hide a lot of my errors lol
The waterproofing membrane we're required to paint 2 two coats of prior to tiling wet areas costs $215 for 15litres! With that said, I'm not going to be banging no nails into the wall to destroy that expensive membrane and risk moisture getting through, just to hold up a little bullnose tile. a well placed plank on the floor (leaning against the wall will hold it there, or nice wide masking tape... or simply start at the bottom first like most other wall tiling. Nice job though, looked pretty good and you sure got going to get it all layed with one mix of mud
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I love the look you have there. I did the Victorian tongue and groove board look in my bathroom when I came here but, despite my over-zealous sealing, water still got down the back at the shower end of the bath. Mind you, it lasted almost 18 years before I noticed damp. Now I've got the modern bathroom my wife liked.
Best Wishes, Brendan.
Thank you 🙏 you are helpful!!!! God bless you
Well done!
Hubert - Germany
Nice job!
Great job.
Great job thank you
Great info.
Excellent job on putting those tiles up on the walls. I find the job of installing tiles therapeutic. I have done a few walls in my time. Will you be grouting the tiles with a white or black grout ?. I chuckled when you mentioned the instructions told you how to mix the powder to the point of it becoming like icing sugar or cake mix consistency,good job i cook as well,ha ha.
i should not of laughed but i dod when you said the tiles wrte a rip off and tjat you hayed grouting thank you for this comedy piece.
Thank you great video
Good job. Here in America we also tape our corners..
Hi John, I have a question regarding the tile backer. Is it sufficient to use for a tiled shower stall with out any type of waterproofing membrane? I have a shower base I'm going to use, but am going to tile everything else.
I am really enjoying and learning a lot from this series. Thank you for taking the time to make and post these videos, they're great.
Thanks,
Colin
I agree with you as a home owner, but in insurance business we are happy when 1000 litres of water goes to the drain than floats on tiles and end up in structures. Our houses are also build to last. When I watch american tv shows like extreme house makeover where they build homes for people in a week, it looks like houses are made from paper and plywood. You did the job nicely and I watched all your videos. Just wanted to write about our strictions. Keep up!
No house is really "built to last." At least, not without consistent maintenance over the years. Everything gets damaged, rots, or corrodes if uncared for. Properly cared for, our houses can last a century, or longer.
Very nice work! :)
Thanks!
Great vid, how about in the inside corners.. Didn't see a spacer. In there.. Did you just bring the tiles from two directions to touch? I'm trying to do corners but am confused... Thanks!
Hi, I am going to do my bathroom using subway tiles and I found your information, I then searched and found your blog and after reading a bit of that, I found a reference to your youtube channel. The point of all of this is that you are in Canada and I am trying to find the coved edge subway tiles that you used for trim in your bathroom. Where did you buy your tiles?? Thank you so much!
I watched the other video about the bubbles in the tub but forgot to comment and now can't remember which video it was. You can fix them with some white resin. All you have to do is sand them out and apply the resin, then sand and polish it.
just curious about a few things. 1) how long did it take you to complete that? and at the beginning you talked about the space between the tub and drywall you filled with silicone.Do you have a video of how you did that?
So what about the wooden window frame? What can you do about that? I have a similar window in our bathroom, and I considering having it removed so I can tile the entire window and create a little shelf. Any ideas and help?
Did you use regular cement board? I’m looking to do the same job and hear mixed reviews about what board to use, what’s waterproof and what isn’t etc. Thanks for the video!
I have a question that I can’t find the answer too anywhere. I’m tiling an old shower wall that was plaster n lathe. The holes in the plaster around the faucet knobs are too big and the plaster has crumbled away leaving no wall behind. How do I patch that so I can tile over it? Thanks.
What do real man now about icing or cake batter? I am a former chef of 20 years that has also remodeled and tiled many bathrooms. I guess I know quite a bit about both.
Nice job
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Wish u could do my 2 tubs. I want to do them myself but I think I'll need to replace some of the board and I don't have a cutting tool so I guess I won't be able to do it
how did u layout the tile to ensure everything aligned?
for tile on shower floor and wall ..what type of grout is needed??
Can anyone elaborate on what the square piece is underneath the toilet flange. My toilet flange is sitting about a half inch above my subfloor. Any tips on how to alleviate this. I know my cement board will be 1/2" but I will have to split it to go around my already installed flange.
Thanks
What kind of soap dish did you use? Where did you get it? The ones I see have a part sticking out in the back.
Hi. Great job! Can you help me with something. You have used tiles that have a rounded,white glazed edges (sometimes called bullnose edging). They make it super-easy to do edges. Normally with many tiles the edges are NOT glazed, you will see terracotta there, so you need an edging. I am finding it nearly impossible to find white subway tiles with this kind of edging. Can you tell me where you got your tiles from? Thanks. Would be much appreciated. I hope you will respond. I know this is years after you posted this, but I live in hope! :)
Haha, I just posted the same question! I can't find it either.
Couple of questions... 1. Is the window trim and sill made of wood? Wont that get wet and rot? 2. What do you do to seal the gap between the tile and tub surface? Do you grout and then silicone?
Looked like it was just a bathtub, so, shouldnt get wet?
Water isolation in US is poor. In Finland you just cant install tubs or showers in a room unless it is first isolated the whole area, walls and floor. All water that is spilled on the floor or walls has to access the drain eventually.
That's sounds extreme and unnecessary. But, if it's your building code, you have to follow it or face the consequences. IF that's in your code, we have to wonder what ridiculous thing comes next, and when will the idiots introduce it here.
As far as I'm concerned, building codes should be stripped down to the basics - the important things like fundamental structure, plumbing and electrical. Reduce bureaucracy and let us live free, like we used to do (and survived just fine) for thousands of years.
BTW, I'm in Canada, not US.
a25751 Oh really? Great, You do that for your kitchens too right? And laundry rooms? You know, any room with water running to it? Gosh. You might as well do it to the entire house! Someone might spill a drink. I assume this applies to all the spaces the pipes run through right? What if a pipe gets damaged! Gotta isolate those too along redundant channels to divert the water out of the structure! If it got wet even once everything would be ruined!
I'm being a little hyperbolous here, but your "water isolation" regulations seem draconian and severe. A little water won't do much lasting damage to anything, and a little water will get into everything no matter how well you isolate it. It's the nature of houses and the real world. What John has done seems entirely capable of preventing water from being a problem.
And while I'm sure building codes are all very well intentioned, at the end of the day, if it works, it's good enough. I mean, it's great that there are base-line regulations mandating that buildings be constructed to a certain standard to ensure the safety of the occupants of any given building, especially when a building is public, or otherwise put to a commercial purpose, but there's a limit where reason ends and we put on our steel-mesh gloves and safety glasses to cut construction paper with safety-scissors at arms length while a medical team stands by.
I Love this explaination!!! it showcases the mind-numbing crap our society is brainwashing the masses with ridiculous do this, don[t do that unnecessary time-consuming and cost-adding hoops to jump through! just like the oh, so not true saying: "Our diversity is our strength" a load of crap that society crams down the throat of mindless people who can't thinkfor themselves.
Excellent comment thread.
I've been doing tile for 30 years and can't do a tub surround and finish building two o clock!!
I'm confused here. Is this just a bathtub or bath/shower combo?
No water proof system is needed on the wall?
He used tile boards. You can see the different colours. Cement based for use in showers and bath areas.
Very nice job John! Im with you dont mind tiling HATE grouting. Great video. JOE
Thanks Joe!
They don't sell soap dishes that are as high as subway tiles are wide?
What about the upper portion? Since it's a shower, isn't it conceivable that you're gonna get water on the upper portion of the wall?
I didn’t see a shower? Looked like just a bathtub.
Real men know how to make a cake.
Very nice tidy job. I'm not too bad at tiling and grouting but I bloody hate doing it, try and avoid it at all cost.
Why wouldn’t you go up higher on the all for when taking a shower
So why not start in the middle and work out? So on the right side you have half tile on the bottom row then you started the next wall with a full tile. Technically you suppose to have even cuts on each side of wall. The average person would never notice however.
Not that this is wrong… I’ve learned a whole different way, I use a Durock system caulk the seams and red gaurd the walls…
Corners not right.and border tile can be set out the same way.
Not cake batter, man! That would be too thin. Icing is a better description, or perhaps meringue, like yours was: stiff but fluffy!
Nic
Real men know a lot about cake batter and icing. Making is making.
Ha, I have always hated grouting too!
cwclifford
suggestion - drape the tub, put more mortar on the trowel and be methodical in spreading it or you won't get full, consistent coverage...and the idea that men can't know anything about batter & icing is silly.
I WANT CAKE! on I forgot, I' diabetic... darn
Lol cake batter...
John, Real men also bake cakes for the wifey
Lol. Is this guy serious?
I can't even begin to describe how many things were done incorrectly here and completely out of logical order..
Short ass shower
Wanna mess up sure better stay away from tile setting because its shame for realpro
I'm a woman watching your video to tile my bathroom and that was a very sexist remark. You assumed men are the ones doing this and that real men don't cook. Some of the best chefs are men. Good video, otherwise.
Lol, does anyone have a sense of humour anymore? Or are you all just on the look out for things to get offended about?
Lighten up, you might enjoy life more.
I'm a very easygoing person, so clearly your comment was offensive. Perhaps you should learn to accept some criticism. Besides, behind all joking is truth about how a person thinks.
I also noticed that you only focused on the negative part of my comment.
See what I mean? Lighten up, lady!
Now, go make me a sandwich, and don't forget the beer this time.
:D
A real man can take constructive critism. I'm not upset. You're just placing your own frustration on me. Be a man and take responsibility for your actions. Have a nice day. 😆