Wet room tiling in Upminster, Hornchurch. Level-access shower floors formed, tanked and tiled so the water goes where it is meant to.
Cut in level with the floor so the fall to the drain is consistent across the whole area.
Taken above splash height, with corners, drain and pipe penetrations taped and sealed.
Tile chosen for a floor that will be wet, not just for how it looks dry.
Where the water will actually go, and where it can be reached to clean.
Joists, levels and access checked before anything is cut - this is the part that goes expensive if it is got wrong.
The waterproofing is checked before a tile goes down, not after.
A wet room is the least forgiving job in tiling, because there is no tray to contain a mistake. The whole floor is the shower, and if the falls are wrong or the waterproofing is incomplete, the first sign is a damp patch on a ceiling downstairs.
It starts with the former - the shaped base that creates the fall to the drain. On a timber floor that means cutting in and supporting it correctly so it sits flush; on concrete it is bedded. Either way the fall has to be consistent, because water finds the flattest spot and sits there.
Then the tanking. Floor and walls both, taken up well above splash height, with the corners, the drain and every pipe penetration taped and sealed. This is the part nobody ever sees and the part everything depends on.
Tiling comes last and brings its own decisions: smaller tiles or mosaics follow the falls better than large format, and slip resistance matters on a floor that is wet by design. Upminster has a lot of properties where the wet room is going in upstairs, which raises the stakes on all of it. Tiles that sound hollow when tapped, grout cracking in the same line twice, or a floor that gives underfoot are worth looking at before anything new goes over them.
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Not if the tanking is complete and the falls are right. Those two things are the job; the tiling is the finish on top of them.
Usually yes, with the floor structure checked first. It is a bigger job upstairs, and worth doing properly rather than cheaply.
Around a week for a typical Upminster wet room, including forming the floor, tanking, tiling and sealing.
It is tiled as one room so the floor runs through. That is what makes it look like a wet room rather than a shower that flooded.
Not required, but it dries the floor between uses and makes a real difference to how the room feels. Best decided before the floor is formed.
Upminster, Cranham, Hornchurch, Harold Wood and nearby.