Tanking and tiling timber batten to bath

[bodgermatic]

I'm planning to tile this over-bath shower with 250mm x 400mm tiles, I also have the Mapei tanking kit. I've no idea of the best approach to dealing with the timber batten in terms of tanking and tiling. Should the tiles be proud of the bath lip? Is it best to slope them down towards the bath so that they drain better? Do I tape and tank across the batten to form a waterproof runoff before starting to tile - i.e.: is it OK to tape onto the bath (which will be subject to some movement, obviously).



Any advice much appreciated!

 

[Deleted member 9966]

hi there

in an ideal world, you could really do with taking out that wooden batten and moving the bath up so it's fully adjacent to the wall. Is there any way you could move the bath up towards the shower head wall? It would make for a better situation if you could. That way, you could tile straight on to the bath edges when you start tiling.

I think you need to sort the wooden batten out first before you do anything else. Wood in a high velocity wet area is not the best.

GRR

 

[jay]

as above i wouldn't tile direct to the baton it need to have cement sheet over it any chance of building the wall out to meet bath edge

 

[bodgermatic]

I've just had a look and I could remove the batten and shift the bath. Shouldn't take long to sort out. The original idea was to centre the bath in the room, but the window it's under isn't centred so I don't think it'll make much odds either way. I think I was just hoping to not have to undo work

Any tips for getting grip-fill off timber? 😀

Thanks.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

by taking the batten out, you can butt the bath right up to the walls, Silicon seal the bath edges to the wall, then tank down the walls to the bath, then tile. and when you've tiled and grouted, you can then run another bead of Silicon to join the bath and the tiles together. that's how I did it in my own bathroom

 

[bodgermatic]

By moving the bath up to the wall at the shower end, I'll end up with a bigger gap at the other end - which will have to be bridged with something. What's the recommended approach there?

 

[jay]

can you post a pic of the whole area of the bath just so we know what were looking at

thanks

 

[bodgermatic]

Here's a bit more context for you:



The original idea with the battens was to centre the bath in the room, but the window isn't central, so the taps look offset anyway 🙂

 

[Deleted member 9966]

hi bodger

by taking the batten out from the right hand side and shuffling the bath along the right, how much of a gap at the left hand side will that leave?

 

[bodgermatic]

The gap will end up about 80mm, it's an 1800mm bath.