Thread: Tiling all the way to the roof??

Originally Posted by Bin J

What is your opinion on tiling all the way to the roof (in a bathroom)? I think it gives a pretty schmick looking finish, but is it a waste of money?

If you don't tile all the way to the ceiling, should the paint above the tiles match the colour of the tiles or could it be a completely different colour? Or would this look silly?

If I tile all the way to the ceiling, do I butt the tiles to the underside of the cornice (picture 1), or cornice over the top (picture 2)? (I've attached pics of what I mean).

Does the normal cornice adhesive adhere to the tiles, or would it require builders adhesive or somthing similar?

Thanks!

Hi Bin,

Tiles all the way to the ceiling may look "of a piece", and in the right circustances will be the right thing to do, IMO; However, there is the other option of using stippling or sponging of paint above the the tile line to create an added interest layer - can be very effective, especially above essentially plain tiling.

Cheers!

we did a small bathroom with tiles to the ceiling with Rondo shadowline as the interface with the ceiling and it does look very good.

were planning to now renovate the main bigger bathroom (3x3 metres and 3.1 metres high )
and here I'll follow Auld Basoons advice.

If you can afford it get a tiler to do it. Its painstaking to get it perfect.

Cornice over tiles can get really ugly!

Hi, We did that in our ensuite, where the whole end of the room is a shower enclosure. It looked much better I think than cutting them off, but then we also had no cornice, so the tile edging went all the way to the ceiling and looked pretty cleanly finished. I agree that tiling/cornice may not work - depending upon your cornice. Cheers Justine

A mate of mine is a real estate agent and he reckons that houses with wall to cileling tiles tend to stay on the market a bit longer than those without.
His reasoning is that a new purchaser will often look for the cheapest way to add a new "look" to a room, with medium level tiles a new coat of paint can make all the difference, much harder to do when tiled up to the cieling.

For what it's worth, very few houses/apartments in the upper end of the market are not tiled full height.

It's a matter of style though, and sometimes we will tile three walls full height and leave one painted in a strong feature colour.

Don't tile "under" the cornice, they will be impossible to replace and there's no need for it.

Cheers,

P

Thanks for all your responses !

Okay, so what do you mean by . . .

Originally Posted by renomart

Cornice over tiles can get really ugly!

Do you mean it's hard to get a nice straight line, or do you think it is just ugly full stop? Or do you mean it in this context:

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

Don't tile "under" the cornice, they will be impossible to replace and there's no need for it.

What about, instead of having a full cornice, just some kind of beading. Maybe timber painted? :confused: Or that tile edging? :confused: (that is usually for the top of tiles when you don't tile all the way to the ceiling) What other suggestions are there???

(thanks again!)

I deleted the cornice altogether at the Home of the Biting Midge.

Just set the tiles out from the ceiling down, and plonk a bit of elastic grout in the join at the top!

Be careful though, not all ceilings are created level, and it's not all that flash when you have to run your tiles out over 10 or 20mm! :eek:

Cheers,

P

My dissenting opinion is that a) it's a waste of time and money (unless you partake in unusual activities in your bathroom) and b) it makes the bathroom look like it should be in a motel. There's also a hell of a lot of grout to go mouldy.

But then I've never been in the bathroom of an 'upper end of the market' house. They rarely let me through the front door of those places, let alone use the bathroom.

I did our bathroom to the ceiling, tiles butted under the cornice. Looked so good we did the on-suite the same. If it is a large bathroom a feature strip looks good. As for grout getting mould, we haven't had any problem, and on the other hand I have seem some very mouldy paint above tiles.

Before renovating we looked at a number of display houses (middle range), and they all had tiles to ceiling, seems to be the current trend. Which did not sway us, as trends change.

I have seem some very mouldy paint above tiles

You want to try putting some mould shield in the paint then.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it looks very flash. I just think it's a waste of time and money and also expensive to change when you get sick of those lovely yellow and brown arabesques that looked so quaint in 1972.

Originally Posted by silentC

My dissenting opinion is that a) it's a waste of time and money (unless you partake in unusual activities in your bathroom) and b) it makes the bathroom look like it should be in a motel. There's also a hell of a lot of grout to go mouldy.

I suspect you would have to be partaking of very unusual activities indeed for the grout in a well-ventilated bathroom to go mouldy, and if you did have that situation, you'd have mouldy, peeling paint long before it became a problem!

It can't be a waste of money.... all the bathrooms in Belle magazine are done like that! :eek: :eek: :eek:

P

I suppose the people in those high-end houses employ cleaners, so it's not a problem for them anyway.

OK, I've changed my mind. Full height tiling is the ONLY way to go.

Originally Posted by silentC

I suppose the people in those high-end houses employ cleaners, so it's not a problem for them anyway.

OK, I've changed my mind. Full height tiling is the ONLY way to go.

I don't know who actually employs the cleaners, we have a chap to take care of all that.

P