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  • Impressively neat tap alignment, very jelly, I forgot about tap alignment (with tiles) when planning mine.
    I thought tiling straight on t oa wall was a big no no though? Especially around the wood window (which looks very nice btw).

  • Thanks.
    The alignment isn’t ‘perfect’ but only I will notice - probably.
    The positioning of the mixer and 3 way diverter was nightmarish - if I’d used large format or mosaic it wouldn’t have mattered so much.
    Absurdly complicated piping didn’t allow much adjustment - would definitely do differently next time (make a jig to hold fixtures in place or something)

    The Douglas fir window I built myself- I wanted a plain casement with no frame showing inside and which closed slightly proud of the tiles-so the sash is massively thick as the frame is buried in the wall and tiled over.

  • Tiling directly onto a wall ...

    Depends on the tile and the wall and the substrate.
    I stripped all the plaster off the brick and plastered with a thick cement reeder - the tiles (which are literally the cheapest you can buy) have been up for years (without grout 😖) and there have been no problems.
    When I removed some to change the mixers and fit a hand held shower they were stuck on forever.
    The repair after the plumbing was also cement render - but I tidied it up with bonding to get a smoother surface for tiling onto.

    IMO outside walls should always be cement render - especially next to a window.

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