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<\/a><\/div>\nAs you can see from these pictures, all the wall tiles were held on with a single dot of adhesive in the middle of the tile.<\/p>\n
The first time I updated the shower room was shortly after I moved in in 1995, the plastic shower tray cracked and started leaking onto the floor.<\/p>\n
This was an opportunity to replace the somewhat thin and plastic shower enclosure with a resin base and a glass panelled enclosure.<\/p>\n
I chose to keep with the grey colour for the resin base so as to match the existing items and I also tried to damage as few of the tiles as possible, since I only had so many left by the previous owner.<\/p>\n
Removing any of the tiles was interesting to say the least, since they had all been installed on the dot and dab principle – one large dot in the middle of the tile, then push it onto the wall.<\/p>\n
As such attempting to remove a tile had the tendency of smashing the adjoining tiles as well.<\/p>\n
A year or two later I also had to replace the Mira cartridge shower mixer as I had recently had the boiler replaced and the new combination boiler was not really compatible with the existing shower mixer.<\/p>\n
I tried changing the cartridge for a combination boiler friendly one, but it would not seal properly and just leaked.<\/p>\n
This meant that I had to install a new mixer, along with the joy of different entry points on the mixer and metric vs imperial fittings for the new mixer.<\/p>\n
This used up the remaining few tiles, so any future modifications would involve re-tiling as well.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the completion of the loft conversion, in July 2010, I decided to start on renovating the shower room, and started by removing the tiles from the walls.<\/p>\n