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Settled on 12x24 travertine for bathroom floor and.. Walls?
Posted on 4/29/19 at 8:48 am
Posted on 4/29/19 at 8:48 am
Wife wants it on the walls too but it's heavy as shite. Anyone here ever tried running stone up their walls?
I think I threw my back out hauling all that stone upstairs.
I think I threw my back out hauling all that stone upstairs.
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Posted on 4/29/19 at 8:56 am to CAD703X
My master bathroom has it on about 1/3 of the walls. I think our tiles are 16"x16". When we transitioned to the walls, the pattern the staggered floor pattern was transitioned to a diamond pattern with a nice travertine chair rail. I can get some pics later if you are interested.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 8:59 am to wickowick
Yes I would like to see that
Posted on 4/29/19 at 9:08 am to CAD703X
You could do that but if it were me I'd take my sweet time to get it done right. I'd make sure you get the correct type of thinset and mix it correctly, as well as do one row at a time. That way it doesn't all start to slide down the wall and out of place due to its own weight.
That's just my 2 cents though and I may be wrong but that's how I'd do it.
That's just my 2 cents though and I may be wrong but that's how I'd do it.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 9:21 am to CAD703X
A few thoughts on stone up the walls: it's heavier than tile and not quite as easy to clean, and like tile, can magnify sound quite a bit. If you don't like the idea of bathroom as echo chamber, you might reconsider. How bad the echo depends on room configuration and other sound absorbing materials.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 11:09 am to hungryone
i think we're tiling the tub/shower and the back wall only. paint on the side walls and opposite wall.
its about 200sf of travertine (80 for just the floor) and we went with a simple white pebble look for the accent wall.
and yes, our tile guy just laughed and said "i gotta put that up one row at a time and let it set before putting the next one up.
its about 200sf of travertine (80 for just the floor) and we went with a simple white pebble look for the accent wall.
and yes, our tile guy just laughed and said "i gotta put that up one row at a time and let it set before putting the next one up.
Posted on 5/1/19 at 8:18 pm to CAD703X
Bump. We worked on the floor today.
This post was edited on 5/1/19 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 5/3/19 at 10:15 am to hungryone
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A few thoughts on stone up the walls: it's heavier than tile and not quite as easy to clean, and like tile, can magnify sound quite a bit.
i've talked the SO out of putting the floor stone on the walls in lieu of something more 'plank like'. any thoughts or suggestions on something that would contrast well with the floor and not look overly trendy?
i feel like the 'faux wood' tile planks will look extremely dated in 5 years so i don't really want to go that route.
Also discovered if you hold a piece of the stone up to a light you can see through it! as a result I'm thinking of cutting 4 pieces of the broken ones into rectangles and making a lamp out of them to put in the bathroom. how bad-arse would that be to have a lamp made of the same thing as the floor?
This post was edited on 5/3/19 at 10:19 am
Posted on 5/3/19 at 6:45 pm to CAD703X
It's fine to put it on walls. Just lay it over a backer board screwed well to studs not Sheetrock.
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