Okay – this tub will be tiled around the “backsplash”, and continue over to the right into the shower area. Tile will go up under the window sill all the way across the window.
But –
What’s the prettiest way to make the transition on the left, to lower the tile line to the shorter wing wall (wing wall gets a 6″ wide Corian top)? Continue over then drop down? Drop down right at the left edge of the sill?
I left it for tomorrow – I need some answers tonite!
Forrest
Edited 6/28/2007 7:55 pm by McDesign
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I would continue the tile at the same height over to the far edge of the wall- so the reveal from the corian to the tile on top was the same as the reveal from the corian to the wall on the bottom. Is there going to be an border tile that might follow the top edge of the tiles, then go under the window, and down to the corian? That would help, methinks.
zak
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"so it goes"
Continue over then drop down.
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I think continuing the tile line straight across, including the width of the Corian, then dropping down, might look the best ...
... and I'm no tile expert, but ...
I have other concerns. This is a drop in tub but it appears that you are bringing tile down on top of it on the Corian end and along the exterior wall - is this the case or is it an optical illusion? Again I'm not a tile expert but bringing tile down onto a tub usually involves a vertical flange which gets covered by the cement board AND the tile (with a moisture barrier, ie felt or 6 mil, behind it.
You tub should be dropped onto a platform with cement board and tile already on it, right? Is this just a test fit of the tub?
Also note - not to be fussy but as enclosing a tub most codes (IRC) would consider this a hazardous location for glazing and those windows should be tempered glass.
Jeff
Edited 6/28/2007 9:08 pm ET by Jeff_Clarke
Thanks - that seems to be the concensus.
Yes to both - I'll 'glas on a tub flange kit tomorrow, and the windows (all the windows in the house) get replaced, but that's next spring's project.
Tub will have a flange on the back and the left end; on the right end the tile goes up underneath the tub lip, and on the front AZEK beadboard goes up under the lip. No deck to speak of. I've done a similar job a few years ago, stills seems to be fine.
Forrest
Do you have any pics of this tub flange kit you speak of?And, I would have run the tile straight across at the bottom of the wall cap, or, run it under the sill to the middle of the cap, then drop it down<G> Might depend on the bullnose... Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
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She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Forgot to take a pic of the tile flange i mentioned, so here's a description.
I lay out waxed paper on the edge of my shop table, then lay up a three-ply sheet of fiberglas cloth about 10' long and 3-4" wide with the gel-type resin (that doesn't run).
After it cures, I simply grind through the acrylic top layer of the tub edge (back and end in this case), down to the 'glas, then bond on the 4" wide flange with more resin; holding it on with spring clamps til it cures. This thin flange sticks up about 2-1/2"; goes behind the tarpaper and Hardi-backer.
Pix next time.
Forrest
I'd get a piece of cardboard and mock up a taller wing wall to see how it would look to have the corian top die into the window wall at the same height as the sill. Then the tile could transition smoothly without trim .
So what did you end up doing? Any pictures? I was gonna go against the grain and say drop the tile down and then over. Drop down even with the outside of trim, down to the bottom side of corian top.
For me this depends a bit on what is happening where on the other side of the toilet.
based on what I see, I think I would drop down at line with the edge of window casing, then across to the ponywall
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< I would drop down at line with the edge of window casing, then across to the ponywall>
I did do it that way, just 'cuz I'm in your will.
Forrest
u got shaken baby syndrome too!;)
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Did it - still gets trim and grout.
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Edited 7/9/2007 11:41 am by McDesign
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