Which Comes First

[tex_surv]

I'm ready to tile around my jet tub. It is on an elevated platform. Question is, do I tile first and then set the tub, or set the tub and then tile up to it? Thanks for the Help
Bill C.

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[tileguytodd]

You Have an Option!!! Do the tile first.I never get that lucky!! :)

[Davy]

Hi Tex, Todd is so right. It's alot easier to tile the deck and set the tub after. Make sure the finish deck is a inch or so extra high and put a few shovels of cement under the tub to support it.:)

[John Bridge]

Welcome aboard, Bill. :)

No fair, man. You gotta tell us where you is in East Texas. Heck, for all I know, you might be in Arkansas or Loosiana. :D

[fishinfarmgirl]

Welcome to the board Bill! You've found yourself a wonderful resource!

L

[Jason_Butler]

John If I remember the lucky guy is from my original neck of the woods in East Texas....around the Lake Pinkston area

If a man had a good arm and the trees would move he could hit Loosiana with a rock from there:D

Jason

[tex_surv]

Fishin girl is right, this is a fantastic forum, thanks for all the help. Jason is also correct, I live on Lake Pinkston, between Center and Nacogdoches, Texas. Land Surveyor by trade, I get to stomp thru those wonderful briar invested, youpon riddled, chupacabra lurking woods of East Texas.

I appreciate of of your help thus far. I still have the shower to attack and I'm scared to attempt the mud bed of the floor. I've been trying to follow all the treads related to them but they all seem to be constructed over wood flooring. Mine is concrete slab. do I still need all the liners, lathing (wire mesh stuff) and all that? I just don't want problems down the road .
Thanks for the help.
:rolleyes:
Bill C

[cx]

Hi, Bill. You don't really believe in chupacabras, do ya? :)


Only difference in building your shower over a concrete slab is the floor attachment: you don't need to put down any metal lath, you just pour some really watery thinset on the floor just before you dump in the mud. The rest of the procedure is identical. Yes, you still need all that other stuff.

[John Bridge]

Chupacabras -- are those the animals that have a head on both ends and are called the meanest animals in the world? :)

[tex_surv]

No, those are my clients.

[Sonnie Layne]

:D :D :D

from Dallas/Maud

[flatfloor]

John, you're thinking of the Crocagator. Lake Pinkston is infested with them :D

[John Bridge]

I'm thinking of an animal with a head on both ends that is the meanest animal in the world. Now someone's supposed to ask me why he's so me.

Okay, I'll ax myself. John, why is that animal so mean?

Well, if you had a head at both ends and no way to go to the bathroom, you'd be mean, too!

Where's the moderator? This stuff is supposed to be in the Mudbox. :D

[Sonnie Layne]

Sir, Yes Sir!!!!

[Rob Z]

Hi Tex

Another method for you to ponder...

I build the tub framing deliberately low, set the tub (in mud, as CX suggested), then float mud up to just under the lip of the tub (allowing clearance for tile and a caulk joint.

[flatfloor]

Rob you're off topic.;)

John a Crocagator has a crocodile's head on one end and an alligator's on the other. :D

[jjwq8]

Damn,

An' allatime I thought a Crocagator was one of them thar barnstormin pilots that drops reptilians into neighbourhoods that obviously lack them :D

[flatfloor]

Jeremy, that's a crock and you know it.:D