Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry 1 Oct 12, 2017 9:45 am Hi All, We are renovating our original bathroom from the 1960's, one of the jobs is to remove the old tiles and re-tile the whole room. The demolition, leveling and waterproofing are all finished and we are now ready for the new tiles to go in. The tiles we chose are plank tiles at 20x120cm, I was told by the builder that to allow proper fall for waterproofing the floor is not completely flat, and therefore we can't avoid lippage with the long tiles. This is our first renovation and I'm a complete novice, is the builder speaking the truth? I would think this is a solved problem for anyone using plank tiles in bathrooms and there should be a way to have a flat finish? Thanks for any input in advance! Tiling in bathroom 2Oct 12, 2017 10:25 am Tiles are flat but the floor is not. You cannot avoid exposed edges unless the tiles are so small that they can flow with the fall, and the problem gets worse the bigger the tiles are. With plank tiles, that have one very narrow edge compared to the long edge, you could avoid the problem only if you had a uniform fall to a long drain and you laid them in such a way that had the long edge going across the fall. However, with a point drain it will be almost impossible to avoid lippage. Looking to tile the facade pillars rather than rendering. Builder is quoting 2500$ laying cost for upto 10msq. The 2 pillars come to be 16msq. So laying costs are 5000$… 0 7431 Hi, I'm clearing the tiles from our horrid 50 year old bathroom and preparing to lay new ones. Bugger of a job getting the old… 0 8076 4 14386 |