Hello from 1st time DIY tiler

[emikomary]

Just saying hello,

I joined so I could pick your brains because I am about to tile my bathroom. Never tiled anything in my life, so here goes!

Am doing white metro tiles with grey grout around three sides of the bath and behind basin.

Just a quick question - should I put up coving first and then tile up to it, or put coving on afterwards, over the tiles? The rest of the room is to be papered/painted and if I do it after tiling, there will be a difference in wall levels which I'm not sure how to remedy.

Emiko 🙂

 

[Old Mod]

Hi and welcome to the forum Emiko.
If you are tiling a whole wall end to end you can cove after. If the tiling stops half way down the wall, like to just one side of a door or window, you will have to cove first.

 

[Qwerty]

Welcome to the forum

 

[emikomary]

Thanks for the reply 3_fall. I think I'll have to cove first then because the wall at each end of the bath will be tiled only for the width of the bath, and then painted the rest of the way. Only the long side of the bath is tiled from end to end.