Please help: tiling floorboards
Johanna Green
7 years ago
Hi everyone. A friend has been helping us redo our bathroom but made a bit of an error when it came to the flooring, thinking it would be fine to tile over our floorboards.
The main problem now is that our bath is in place and tiled up... so we can't now overlay the floor with something before retiling.
Our current thinking is remove floorboards up to the bath legs and place boarding down. We'll build up to the same level as the floor boards. In theory you won't see any difference as the bath panel will hide any transition.
Does this seem realistic? Or do we have to bite the bullet and take everything out and lay boarding over the existing floor?
Many many thanks in advance!
The main problem now is that our bath is in place and tiled up... so we can't now overlay the floor with something before retiling.
Our current thinking is remove floorboards up to the bath legs and place boarding down. We'll build up to the same level as the floor boards. In theory you won't see any difference as the bath panel will hide any transition.
Does this seem realistic? Or do we have to bite the bullet and take everything out and lay boarding over the existing floor?
Many many thanks in advance!
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