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The 'greenneedle' bathroom
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26th July 2010
The project became somewhat urgent! Water dripping through the kitchen ceiling and therefore the shower became unusable. We both hate baths so this project commenced earlier than expected.
For a year or so I had noticed that the original tiles (the bath splashback) sounded like they were pretty hollow and you could actually push them backward!!! The tiles I had laid above the splashback for the shower corner were still rock solid.
I set about removing the whole lot ready to re-tile. The pictures at the end tell the story but just some detail;
Behind the original tilework the previous 'tiler' had gobbed some 'hard as nails' or similar (probably sealant.) and then pushed some plasterboard onto it. Then the tiles were laid with the old 5 blobs method and jobs a good 'un.
Trouble being that what I removed was wet, mouldy and black plasterboard. That of course meant the tiles came off in sections rather than individually. The grout on the rear of the tiles was not hard, more like goats cheese, and I could use a dinner knife to slice it off in a single 'swipe'. I could have reused these but they were old imperial measurements and therefore a few mm larger than the 148 x 148 (150 x 150 for some retailers) that are common place these days.
So now added to the job and eating into the budget is replastering.
They had also 'bodged' the windowsill with plasterboard and that left me 2 areas at each end to sort out.
This made me understand the advice on the tilers forum regarding the importance of tanking.
28th July 2010
I am currently letting the brickwork and rest of the 'disaster area' have plenty of time to dry out thoroughly before plastering the area. In the meantime I got bored and made a little 'mock up' of the bath/shower area for the wife to vilsualise.
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