Scheduling plumbing & tiling question

18 years ago

I'm going to just replace the vanity and toilet now and do the shower and floor later, mostly for budget reasons. Are there any scheduling or coordination questions? In particular, if I put in a wall mounted faucet now and later run subway tile up to and above the faucet, does the faucet need to protrude out from the wall an extra 1/4 inch now, or does the tile person just fit the tile around the existing faucet even if that covers up the 1/4 inch, or does the faucet get detached & remounted? Or do you think I'm crazy for worrying?

I can live with a chopped up looking tile floor, which I think is the other drawback to doing this process in stages.

The shower is not "attached" to the sink or toilet in any way, shape, or form, so no coordination issues there...right?

When I look at a pic of the faucet it looks to me like I need to coordinate now to have the faucet protrude out from the wall now to have room to tile behind later. Here's a pic:

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MongoCT
18 years ago
There is a bit of leeway with those faucets. The bonnet can take up some of the variation in wall thickness.

If you needed to pad it out more than the bonnet allows, you could get different sized nipples. Nipples are usually in the 2" to 3" range.

If I were installing this per your plans, I'd see how much play there is in the bonnet. I'd set the faucet so the bonnet could accommodate the drywall only installation, but when it came time to tile, it could also accommodate the added thickness of the wall tile. You'd have to read the installation specs to see how much play is allowed.

If the bonnet does not allow that much flexibility, then just have another set of nipples on hand. Example, set it now with 2" nipples, then when you tile, remove the 2" nipples and replace them with 2-1/4 or 2-1/2" nipples, whichever would give the better fit.

Regardless, when tiling, I'd want to pull the faucet off the wall so the chrome didn't get dinged during the tiling or grouting of the tile.

Mongo
bluekitobsessed
Original Author
18 years ago
Thank you! You rock! As long as the faucet gets removed when tiling (and I can coordinate plumber/tiler when the shower gets done), no problem! oh I feel stupid for even posting, she says sheepishly....
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