Hello, this is my first post on the forum. A friend recommended it to me when I purchased our new house and I started asking him questions about retiling the bathroom.
The house is a Grollo (F) design which was built after Cyclone Tracey in Darwin as a cyclone proof house. They are a unique design white some unique features such as almost the whole structure is concrete including the roof, floors and most of the walls with 3 levels to the house.
The bathroom is literally one whole room which one half of the room is an open shower and bath next to each other and then the other half is vanity and toilet with two walls that only goes three quarters of the way to the roof. The bathroom on the first level is built over the storeroom on the first level.
When we bought the house the tenants who were in it said that there was a small leak in the store room underneath the bathroom and the landlord put silicone around the for bottom edges of the shower and the leak stopped. As the tiles are still original Commonwealth brown tiles of the day I thought it would be a good idea to retire but now after purchasing the tiles I am confusing myself about the best way to go ahead and start the job.
I purchased 300x600 charcoal gloss porcelain wall tiles and 300x300 charcoal Matt floor tiles. It was suggested to me to use a liquid leveller on the floor and lift up the drain pipe in the floor because the fall is very exaggerated around the drain and would make tiling with the 300x300 tiles harder. Then waterproof over the liquid leveller and old tiles before retiling over that.
I then thought as all the walls and floors were concrete I would rip up the old tiles start from scratch but now that we have moved into the house I realised that some of the walls are cement sheeting in the shower and I didn't want to take the risk of having to put new sheeting up if I remove the old tiles and damage the sheets. On the other hand as I am using larger wall tiles there would be places that I need to tile that don't have tiles.
So any advise or previous experience would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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