If you are fully tiling a toilet do you usually have a skirting board or do you tile to the floor?
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Don't forget that you can get tiles which are curved at one edge, and if you use these on the bottom row you can continue tiling the whole floor in a 'seamless' fashion much like they do in hospitals. That way, you'll get no build up of muck, germs or dampness in the corners ! ! !
Whatever you think would loook best, personally i would always have a skirting board, you coulld end up kicking the tiles by mistake if they were to the floor and damage them :(
go to the floor cause if you have a tiled wall and skirting board when the tiles are wet they drip water from when your bathroom is steamy and it will rott the skirting board
You can tile to the floor and grout the seam of the wall to the floor. My parents house is set up like that.
That depends on whether or not you want to keep painting the skirting board, looks ok either way if the cuts are even top and bottom, personally i would tile to the floor!
Tile all the way down to the floor. Much easier to keep clean.
If your tiling the bathroom it looks better if you tile to the floor
you can if you want to
Tile the lot, but if you are using different colour tiles for walls and floor you can make your own skirting by using the floor tiles to make it look like its skirting boards. This looks fantastic, especially if your colours really contrast...
I have just tiled a Bathroom and i tiled to the Skirting Board
Hi, You usually need a skirt as joiners say. It looks better.
Mine is tiled to the floor. It looked fine at first, but the bottom couple of inches of grout in the vertical joins began to look grubby after the floor had been mopped a few times. A skirting board would have prevented this. I must check if I can get upvc skirting, ? My tiles are basically white, but white upvc skirting might look odd against some tile colours.
2 the floor
There are clearly many opinions on this, mine is to have a skirting board for 2 reasons:
1. I think it looks better.
2. I had a house that was tiled to the floor in the kitchen downstairs. The tiles prevented the wall from breathing and caused damp. I removed the tiles from the bottom row when I re-decorated, re-plastered, added a skirting board and solved the problem.
So it would probably depend on if the bathroom is downstairs or not.
You can create a skirting look with a tile. I think its more hygienic to tile to the floor..Iprefer the flush finish.(pun un intended)
whatever you feel like doing personally tile to floor looks miles better
Hi, I would definately say to the floor i have a very good friend who works for a large tile shop and he highly recommended it to me especially as i am one of he's very valued customers I have tiled 3 bathrooms in as many years and the end result looks modern and fab!
Always tile to the floor, both for aesthetic appearance and hygiene. There are no dampness issues (if you had damp it would rot a wooden skirting anyway). If you go to a quality tile shop, they will be able to also show you commercial ranges of tiles with proper skirting tiles ( battiscopas) as used in restaurants / hospitals etc. ( look at McDonalds toilets to see what I mean).
If you use ordinary tiles straight down onto the floor, seal the joint with silicone sealant.
if youre going for a wet room type thing go to the flor and make sure there is a seal between the floor and the wall
To keep it clean it is a good idea to tile to the floor especially if the floor has existing tiles as well.
Where there are any water issues whb, shower, wc it is best to tank the area ie tiles to walls and floor and mastic joints to suit.
The choice is yours if there is only the wc use square edge skirting and sit the tile on top of it.
Make sure you use waterproof cement and grouting to wall and floor tiles.
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