(or "How to make a woman happy....")

Picture the scene, we are in a tile warehouse

"How about those ones with the fish?" (he says half joking).

"Oh yes! I do like those..."

Hmmm, rather expensive he thinks.

"What about those, they are not that different and half the price?"

"Well OK I suppose, I would rather have the fish, but you are right, those are OK and much cheaper"

"OK tile merchant, gimmy 13 square meters of those!" (gesticulating toward some nice blue tiles).

"Ah, says merchant, afraid it will be 5 weeks before we get those back in stock..."

"Oh Dear! What about those fishy ones then?"

"Er, let me check... Oh yes you can have them for next Monday"

"Oh, ok then, we will have those..."

The Result

Not much to be said on this really. All the bare plasterboard had a coat of PVA a few days before as a waterproofing measure.

As you can probably tell I forgot to take many photos during the work!

Looked at the price of the tiles and decided that a nice electric tile saw was the order of the day (could not afford to break many!). Got the Plasplugs one from Machine Mart (see Links). These are like a bench mounted angle grinder with a diamond disc sitting in a water bath! Very quick and easy to cut even fine shavings of a tile and they leave a nice smooth edge and don't make any dust. At about £32 pretty good value as well.

Used Nicobond waterproof adhesive and grout.

Finished off with some Lithofin KF Grout Protector to keep it looking nice.

All the wall to wall joins will be filled with silicone sealant rather than grout to prevent any cracking.

Once the shower is fitted, the panel and door can go on. The side panel will run to the white edging strip you see here. (The edging strip hides a slight change in wall level as we switch from the rendered 3/4" ply walls of the shower, to the thinner 1/2" plasterboard walls of the rest of the room).

The wall to ceiling joint will have a narrow cove fitted just to finish off.

TaDa! All done

(well if you forget about minor details like not having the woodwork in place or the painting being finished,or the pile of tiles on the windowsill waiting to go on the boxed in section over the shower waste pipe that needs to be built....!)