One of our shower rooms, finished, and tiled by us floor to ceiling.
The tiles are big marble effect ones, grey with dark veins running through them, and they go all the way up on every wall you can see, inside the enclosure and outside it. The enclosure is sliding glass on a low white tray, with a handset on a riser rail and a round head up at the top. On the right is a white wall hung vanity unit with the basin set into it, and the floor is tiled in plain grey. The timber round the doorway at the front of the shot is still bare.
To the ceiling
People ask whether shower tiles should go to the ceiling, and whether to tile the whole room or just the shower.
In a shower room there is a good case for all the way up, and this room shows why. A shower room is a small space that fills with steam every time somebody uses it, and the steam does not stop at the top of the screen. Painted plaster above a half height line of tiles is the part of a shower room that marks, flakes and grows black spots first, and it sits right where the steam gathers, up by the ceiling. Take the tiles all the way up and there is no painted plaster left in there to suffer, only tile and grout that wipe down. It changes how the room looks as well. A wall tiled to the ceiling in one big tile reads as one surface rather than a band of tiles with a stripe of paint above it, and in a small room that makes the walls look taller rather than shorter. Big tiles mean fewer grout lines too, which is less to clean and less to go grey. What it asks for is more tiles and more cutting, at the ceiling line and in every corner, and that is where a tiler’s work shows, because a cut that wanders along the top of a wall is the first thing your eye goes to when you stand in the shower.
The rest of the room
The sliding door opens along the line of the enclosure instead of swinging out into a small room, so it stays clear of the vanity. The low tray keeps the step in small. And a vanity unit hung on the wall leaves the floor clear underneath it, so the floor tiles run straight through and there is no plinth for the mop to go round.
Plumbed and tiled
This is the shower room on our bathroom page, and the tiling in it is ours as well as the plumbing.
That is the point of one firm doing both. Nobody plumbs the room and leaves it waiting for a tiler, and nobody tiles round pipework somebody else put in the wrong place. When it is only the valve in the wall that needs changing, that is a smaller job, like the concealed shower valve replacement we wrote up last week.
Ring 07546 185778 and say what the room is now and what you want it to be.
