Gutted Bathroom

One of the last rooms I have left to renovate in my house is the upstairs bathroom and over the last few weekends I got around to gutting the room. All the old bathroom fittings were removed and the old plaster stripped of the wall.

  

Prior to bonded plasterboard sheets to the wall I rerouted all the piping as I intend to hide most services and have the shower feed from the ceiling and a bath with no taps and filled via an overflow bath filler. I also replastered the ceiling.

The old floorboards were in poor condition with rot in some areas so I replaced the entire floor with new OSB T&G sheeting as I needed a solid base prior to tiling the floor. One of the concerns I had with tiling onto a wood substrate was movement and eventual breakdown of adhesion of the tiles to the floor. To address this I installed a tiling backing board, opting for a 6mm Jackoboard to minimise the change in floor height when entering the bathroom from the hall. The Jackoboard is laid at right angles to the OSB to minimise joint overlap and fixed to the sheeting with screws and fixing discs.

   

I came across an unusual tile layout pattern that I really liked on the Vives website for their range of  Aston Bolney Gris tiles. The tiles are 12 x 28 cm and arranged in a random quarter length offset on each row. The tile size and colour worked well in the small space and I am particularly happy with the way this job turned out. One of the hardest parts was trying to maintain a random distribution of tile colour and offsets as I worked my way across the floor and up the walls.