Not sure how it happened, but the missus was complaining about how much she hated the bathroom today, and the whole lot started to get bashed about, the tatty looking hardboard bath panel snapped into several pieces etc...
I think I sorted the leak - the bath is now slid up hard against the wall furthest away from where it was (plenty of access to the tails!)
- the old Xpelair has been lashed and the hole filled in (we don't suffer from much damp / condensation in there now since we got central heating - and it hadn't worked for a couple of years anyway) but i'm wondering what to do next...
She's talking tiling, and i've only ever done it once before - given that tiles are fairly cheap, and marble tiles are only a little less so nowadays, the question was posed about using marble (my fault...)
Apart from cutting the damn stuff, is it any harder to work with ?
One small "issue" I might have is how I now fill in the gap at the tap end of the bath - it's never going to hold much weight other than shampoo bottles, so what I was thinking was a batten against the end wall, a strip of wood stuck to the bath (no more nails jobbie), and laying large-ish tiles onto them - they could sit on a bead of silicone to seal, with more run up the back of the tiles where they'd meet, and normal grout on top.
Does this sound feasible ?