My 1st Job Half tiled wall around bath- want to tile the rest as adding shower. Advice on prep please - TilersForums.com

[Waluigi]

Ahhh, same day as one trick pony day

 

[Spare Tool]

Might *just* be room to put a screen in. I think we will probably remove the tiles and tank the whole area for the shower...as you say do it once, do it right! Not worth the risk. Will it be possible to save any of them do you think? Or in your experience is it hard to get tiles off in one piece?

Cheers

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You won't get them off without some breakages and chips and cleaning them up will take forever if you do manage to get a couple or three off intact...just get enough to start from scratch.

 

[Dannnn]

So being a bit worried I’d bite off more than I could chew here, I contacted a tiler for a quote.

He’s coming tomorrow to look but told me it probably wouldn’t need tanking, if the baths been silicones then it would just need a bead of silicone at the bottom of the tiles to seal... and that it’s standard practice to double seal a shower and single seal a bath (whatever that means). I had mentioned it’s so we can add a shower.

Anyway, he’s coming to quote tomorrow... does what he’s said sound right? I don’t want a bodge job. Is there anything I need to be aware of and very roughly what would you expect a reasonable quote?

Thanks