Tiling Floor and Walls in En-Suite Bathroom - Which to Start First? Advice and information on tiling and fixing tiles to a variety of surfaces

[Tony How]

I am about to start tiling an en suite shower room. I have the walls and the floor to tile. I have been given conflicting advice as to which to tile first, the floor or the walls, which would be the best to tile first?

[welsh brickie]

tile the walls first, if you do the floor first, you could drop something and damage it.

[Tony How]

Many thanks, this is what I thought, but I was told the floor should go down first, something to do with water run off, but I think that is only needed (maybe) in a full wet room. As this is not what I am doing the wall will come first then.