Island/Drop in Bath - please help

[Aidex]

Hi Everyone

We (wife) want to fit a bath in a box. Basically tile the box and drop the bath in leaving about 3" of tile around all edges of the bath.

i though to make the box out of 2x4 treated CLS with the 4" facing up. Then clad it all in marmox (with access panel), tile and drop bath in. The bath would sit 10mm from the edge of the timber all around the box leaving about 80mm of tile visible all around the bath. I thought that with the weight of the bath spread around the box and the feet fitted and screwed to the floor that this would be ok. But I checked on Google and all I found are US and Australian "tips" and these guys use a bed of cement or plaster "mud" to set the base of the bath on. I hope to avoid this and would be grateful to know how local guys go about this! 🙂

thanks a lot for your help!!!

 

[SimonG]

A real shin shredder that 3" gap. Plenty of support and legs on floor.

 

[Chalked]

Sounds like you've got a decent grasp of what to do.

Heres one I did before christmas. Only difference is your tiling. Make sure the feet takes all the weight.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Very smart mate, what have you used to edge the bath with?

 

[Chalked]

Very smart mate, what have you used to edge the bath with?

Hi, it's called silestone ! Basically a resin and stone mix. Very easy to cut and polish. ( not cheap though)

 

[Aidex]

Hi Guys

Thanks for your advice. 🙂 Noted on the feet.

i liked the shin point...hadn't considered it tbh (don't really have baths either so it's someone else's shins at risk I guess!) 😉 But we're having our first baby any day now and bathing him with that edge is worrying me a little.

Chalked nice job! 🙂 Not sure I'll do quite as well (but I'll try and I hope I do tbh). BTW, what are the wall tiles you fitted? They're the sort of thing we're thinking about but have to narrow it down a little.

 

[Chalked]

I think the tiles were porcelanosa "Kali pulpis" (not cheap @£53 per m)
they look good in contrast to the other colours they do.

 

[Aidex]

Hi Chalked thanks for that.

Wife likes the lighter one so unless she's having the baby we might try to get to a porcelanosa shop next weekend. We'd narrowed things down to a couple of marbles - 1. Light polished emperador (hard to find), 2. crema marfil and 3. cappuccino (in that order I think but I don't always listen and I'm often wrong 😉 )

is is it hard to polish up cut marble edges? I have a festool rotex and was wondering whether that might be up to the job. Would you tile and polish after or cut, polish, then lay?

 

[Chalked]

Hi Chalked thanks for that.

Wife likes the lighter one so unless she's having the baby we might try to get to a porcelanosa shop next weekend. We'd narrowed things down to a couple of marbles - 1. Light polished emperador (hard to find), 2. crema marfil and 3. cappuccino (in that order I think but I don't always listen and I'm often wrong 😉 )

is is it hard to polish up cut marble edges? I have a festool rotex and was wondering whether that might be up to the job. Would you tile and polish after or cut, polish, then lay?

you will need a decent wet tile cutter for cutting marble. For polishing the edge your better off with a variable speed angle grinder on slow. But you would get away with sanding pads in your festool sander. You can do a final finish with a diamond pad dipped in water.