I tore everything out down to the studs, replaced some of the studs, built the walls out to fit the new shower pan, and put in hardyboard and new water resistant sheet rock throughout. replaced and updated all the electrical and plumbing too, to include adding a fart fan.I'm using a pan, way easier than building my own shower floor, and three coats of mapei aquadefense in the shower and anywhere that may get wet. I might have gotten little overzealous with things, as I not only put two coats of kilz inside the walls and on the interior of the room to seal the sheetrock/wall skim. Talked senior management into approving vertical orientation on the wall tiles, I think its gonna look better and waste less. I appreciate the advice guys!
They are flat but all the tiles have a crown in the middle. With the tile flat on the table, measure and end for thickness. Then measure the middle for thickness. It could be up to 1/8th of an inch off. I just learned about this as our tile jobber did it the 50% brick wall method. If you do the 1/3rd method the edges of one tile will better match in thickness to the next tile offset to it because the thickest part of all the tiles is in the middle of the tile. All of our tiles stick out a 1/16th to an eighth of an inch from the tile above and below.
Horizontal/vertical doesn't matter as long as wifey is happy.
I was at my Son's house over the weekend and noticed they have 12x24's installed horizontally, snapped a pic so you could see(and show the SO) what it looks like.
Whichever way you go on this, I commend you for doing it yourself! A lot of people wouldn't undertake such a project and it is easy.
Not if you are a perfectionist. Try to cut a tile so it doesn't chip. That's why they make diamond files.
