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Tiling Bathrooms To The Ceiling Is Remarkable

When tiling a bathroom you always want to tile to the ceiling in my opinion. I have been tiling bathrooms for over 20 years and my advice can be broken down into three reasons why you should tile to the ceiling and three reasons you might want to avoid.

Come on this journey of bathroom tiling heights to learn more and make your decision.

There are three types of common bathroom tiling. They are the below types

  • Basic Tiling (Looking at a skirting tile around 300mm around the room and 2.1m high in the shower)
  • Half Way (1200mm roughly around the entire room, works out about one tile high about the vanity and 2.1m in the shower)
  • Full Height (To the ceiling around the room with often cornice removal and replacement for clean finish)

Tiling To The Ceiling In Bathrooms Makes It Look Bigger

Taking those humble tiles from the floor to the ceiling in your bathroom will make the room feel much bigger.

Your eyes follow lines and shapes so if you have a nice vertically laid tile and you run that bad boy up the walls you will create a feeling of height in your bathroom.

Honestly you may not have the biggest room but most ceilings are standard height so why not make an emphasis on those above standard walls and show them off.

Ceiling Bathroom Tiling Makes Your Space Feel Finished.

When I speak about bathrooms being finished what I am talking about is that feeling when you see a space and there is nothing left to do.

Additionally, when a client selects half or basic tiling they will change their minds mid-way through as they feel like the space does not feel finished.

When you take that tiling full height to the ceiling you will get a sense of finished bathroom space.

Getting clean lines finished at the new cornice allows you to get that stunning feature into the bathroom you always wanted.

Most of the time the feature tile is run high so you want it to finish at the ceiling, not three-quarters or it kills the feature.

Finally, Full Height Tiling Is Easier To Clean.

Lastly, we have the real reason most people tile to the ceiling, they want a bathroom that’s a lot easier to keep clean.

By running those tiles up the bathroom walls you eliminate mold traps and paint that flakes off after a while.

No more grubby hands ruining that bathroom paint or mishaps getting all over those nice clean walls.

Bathroom tiles that run up to the ceiling in a gloss finish make the cleanest room possible with just a simple white down from the non porous shiny surface the easiest to keep clean.

A matt finish works just as well but it needs to be patterned in my opinion.

Why you wouldn’t want tiling to the ceiling in bathrooms.

Below are the reasons why you won’t want to run bathroom tiling up to the ceiling and you might want to avoid these factors

Tiling To The Ceiling Can Be Costly

Let’s face it spending money is not everyone’s favorite thing to do so the idea of spending a fair bit more to tile to the ceiling is not for everyone.

Tiling to the ceiling of a bathroom will set you back anywhere between $2000 to $7000 depending on if its supply and installation.

That is a lot of money to fork out to have finished looking space and if you are already near the budget it can definitely be a deal breaker.

You are someone who changes their mind

Lastly, we have the second reason you might not want to tile full height in your bathroom. That reason for the mind changers out there.

If you change your mind a lot then committing to a tile all the way to the ceiling might be a daunting task.

The solution to this is only tiling basic or halfway, the reason is you can paint.

Changing the paint color is a lot easier than changing tiles so if you do not like to commit the painting is a much better idea.

Your Walls Are P%%%ed

Often with older homes and some poorly built new ones, the walls in your bathroom could be out of square and not level.

All this means is if you take say a rectified tile with is straight and try to tile it on a crooked wall you will have tile that sticks out further and further as you attempt to keep the level.

To break it down you will need to often remove the cornice which is a lot more work to finish it and you may have tiles still out passed the door frame.

So it’s important to chat with your tiler to see if full-height tiling will work with your walls.

Final Thoughts

So there you have my breakdowns on why you should tile the ceiling in the bathroom and why you might want to steer clear of full-height bathroom tiling.

For me I always go to the ceiling, you can just do so much more with full-height tiling and you can create something that is really grand.

If you are reading this and you weighing up what to do with your bathroom let me leave you with this as someone who has seen thousands of bathrooms.

Tiling full height in your bathroom will give you a wow factor and a feeling that you have actually finished the project that no other tiling height will give you.

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Importantly our advice is general in nature so it is very important you speak with a qualified local tradesman before making any decision

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