Okay fellas, I'm laying down hardieboard for my bathroom remodel (this was from the ROT threads a few months ago, I've repaired all the framing damage, re-plumbed for the new shower, and leveled the flooring with feather finish)I'm using 12" x 23.75" smartcore pro LVT. Pic shows the current layout i'm considering, with one full tile centered on the entry from the bedroom. Do any anons have guidance/recommendations on better layouts? I'll show alternate layouts in subsequent pics.
>>2877077Here is with the layout squared to the edges of the shower pan, which leaves a lot of slivers
>>2877081but if i shift it to a 1/3 overlap pattern, it gets rid of a lot of the slivering...
>>2877077Make sure to check the manufacturer recommendations. Sometimes they recommend against 50/50 layout
>>2877083and finally, this is a 1/3 overlap but stair-stepped. don't know how much i like this one.
>>2877085yeah they just say min 1/3, recommended 1/2
just for fun, this is what kicked off this whole project. wanted to re-caulk the shower last fall, and as i pulled the old caulk away, i uncovered a nightmare. luckily, its a very accessible and clean crawlspace underneath, and there was minimal joist involvement
>>2877088tub: gone. this area will just be open now, maybe a folding table / laundy zone for my wife
>>2877089toilet wasn't great either, wax ring was pretty much gone. replaced with one of those green donut gaskets.
>>2877090after completing all subfloor repairs
>>2877091and after leveling with feather finish, which turned into nearly skimming the whole floor. the toilet area was a quarter inch low, the doorway to the closet a quarter inch high, reference point being the floor at the partition wall.
>>2877093threw down some hardiebacker and tiles just to test how it feels underfoot, a billion times better
>>2877089did you really have to cut it in half? That must have taken ages
>>2877122it was fucking colossal and heavy, and my wife is very pregnant so completely impractical to try to carry it out of the house whole. burned through two demo blades on my sawzall but honestly it was only like three minutes of actual cutting. rest was negotiating the pieces out of the house. my neighbor is an old retired dude with an excavator that he used to pulverize the halves into little chunks that we just put in our garbage cans.
here is the current progress of the overall project
got all the hardiebacker cut and placed last night, not fastened though as a couple humps left over from the feather finish have become apparent and i need to hit them with the grinder
>>2877558but here is one layout just for kicks. this puts a full course of tile against the vanity, which i like for a number of reasons. I'm going to be spending a lot of time staring at that area whilst on the toilet, for one. installation of the tile itself (since it has to be tilt-locked together) for another. Yes, i'll have to cut around the shower pan, and it's not 100% square to the vanity, but it's not as bad as i thought.
>>2877077>putting laminate in a bathroomwhat? I wouldn't put that shit in a kitchen
>>2877942I'm not immensely concerned -- for one, it's not laminate, and it's actually rated as waterproof (as long as it's installed properly). two, i'm consciously installing things in a reversible manner, so (with some effort) if something goes ugly i can non-destructively remove all of the layers if something needs mitigation. and three, it's just a crawlspace underneath this bathroom and has really easy access, and i'll be probably obsessively checking for leaks underneath this bathroom for the rest of my life.
bedded the pan in tonight. I'm gonna go with the layout in >>2877559, i think it's the best set of compromises.
>>2877127Why the hell did you make your wife carry it out? Geezus man…
>>2878005He's using Lowes flooring, this is to be expected.
>>2877989>checking for leaks underneath this bathroom for the rest of my life.Hot mop uses tar like the la brea tar pit famous for holding water and confusing dinosaurs into swimming. I highly recommend hot mopping your bathroom, builds a bathtub as part of your rough in. Similar to a torch down roof, but applied with a mop instead of rolled and blow torched.
>>2878012> tar and feather itnah, use a sheet-lead pan liner with soldered seams. it will never grow mould.
>>2878005kek
hell yeah
>>2878557Is that hardie backer or some other boutique shit?I wish I had done my whole house in 1/2” hardie board. Doesn’t sag, waterproof, fireproof, fits in the motherfucking car…
>>2878569if you tilt your head slightly to the left, you will find that it is GoBoard (TM) by Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company, offering such benefits as fast installation, being ultra-lightweight, being easy to use, handle, and install, and being innately waterproof, for applications on walls, showers, ceilings, floors, and countertopsbut for real it's just big foam board like schluter kerdi. really light, you score and snap with a razor knife. leave a 1/8" gap between boards, fill gaps and cover screw heads with sealant.
>>2878660and no it's not boutique i got it at lowes
