First time large project shower reno
Decided to renovate our shower since I had some time between jobs. The old black and white tile combination was 10+ years old, lacked character and doesn’t match our style. Very happy with how it turned out - lots of lessons learned and practice tiling. The design was done by my wife and she helped out too. I did almost all of the work except some plumbing. It took 6-7 weeks (some delay because of the plumbing and I hurt my back). Some reflections… The demolition took longer than expected. There were 3 layers of old tile. It is also a concrete floor which was a pain to drill up and remove. I used a membrane for the shower waterproofing. Not sure why I ended up choosing this over a paint-on tanking kit. It wasn’t much cheaper because I had to buy extra tile glue for it. Pouring the self-levelling cement floor was easier than expected. I used a pre-sloped tileable shower tray with envelope cuts. This was really hard to make look good and get perfect cuts. Also the shower tray itself was very expensive for just being a shaped piece of foam. I wasn’t confident doing my own slopes using sand cement screed - hence the purchase. I decided on a small step up into the shower. This is because levelling the rest of the floor would use much more material and delay the project because of drying time. Tiling took way longer than estimated. I’ve done a couple of small jobs before but nothing of this scale. And finally, I loathe doing silicone. Just the worst thing to work with. submitted by /u/steelpopsicle [link] [comments]
| | Decided to renovate our shower since I had some time between jobs. The old black and white tile combination was 10+ years old, lacked character and doesn’t match our style. Very happy with how it turned out - lots of lessons learned and practice tiling. The design was done by my wife and she helped out too. I did almost all of the work except some plumbing. It took 6-7 weeks (some delay because of the plumbing and I hurt my back). Some reflections… The demolition took longer than expected. There were 3 layers of old tile. It is also a concrete floor which was a pain to drill up and remove. I used a membrane for the shower waterproofing. Not sure why I ended up choosing this over a paint-on tanking kit. It wasn’t much cheaper because I had to buy extra tile glue for it. Pouring the self-levelling cement floor was easier than expected. I used a pre-sloped tileable shower tray with envelope cuts. This was really hard to make look good and get perfect cuts. Also the shower tray itself was very expensive for just being a shaped piece of foam. I wasn’t confident doing my own slopes using sand cement screed - hence the purchase. I decided on a small step up into the shower. This is because levelling the rest of the floor would use much more material and delay the project because of drying time. Tiling took way longer than estimated. I’ve done a couple of small jobs before but nothing of this scale. And finally, I loathe doing silicone. Just the worst thing to work with. [link] [comments] |
