Show Us YOUR Work Thread - Tilers Pictures

[Dave]

Edit May 2024: THIS is a New Show Us Your Work Thread for 2024 Onwards

This is the new Tilers Showcase Forum where we want new tiling work added, with each tiling job you complete having a thread of its own so people can see what kind of work you do, and potential customers can find your work

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I thought it was about time we had a thread dedicated to all members of Tilers forums to show us any work that they do.

Be it from installing a kitchen to garden decking. Show us your work! Get those pictures taken, but then do something with them! Actually add them to a thread and some facebook groups with your website link in them etc and it'll help spread the tile love.

If you have done a job then please do share it with us.

Pics are a MUST as what is the point of sharing a job without them..:smilewinkgrin:.

So if you do a job and you take a few pics then please do share it with us.

Lets make it a big thread for all to view and input in.

Thanks Dave ..

 

[bobbynz]

Very nice and tidy work MG. When I had a break from tiling a few years ago i started to miss it so I worked on a few mosaics and ended up being at it for a few years.Like you wasnt long before i had a few requests and on it went. As you well know the hours pass like seconds before you know it. I think I might dig up some pics most of my work is south pacific orientated and NZ birds etc.

 

[user123]

Very nice and tidy work MG. When I had a break from tiling a few years ago i started to miss it so I worked on a few mosaics and ended up being at it for a few years.Like you wasnt long before i had a few requests and on it went. As you well know the hours pass like seconds before you know it. I think I might dig up some pics most of my work is south pacific orientated and NZ birds etc.

Yes, Bobby, I would love to see you work and we all like pics here!! Let's have them!! :hurray: It's a limitless art which needs artisan abilities, and an eye for detail and perfectionism, all things good tilers need, too! There are (relatively speaking) as many bad mosaicists who cut corners out there as there are bad tilers, but some are outstanding, and like all outstanding tilers here I strive to perfection all the time, forever trying to improve and expand my abilities. In the end the customer determines what they like, but I determine the quality, and that's what turns me on and what makes the end result happen every time.... and nobody ever knows the hours that go into it unless they do it for themselves.

 

[bobbynz]

Hi, guys and girls, i had a good search for some pics of some mosaics i've done over the years and thought you might want a look see.
I haven't been into it lately but after digging these up i think i might start something soon. I cut all the tesserae from glazed 150mm ceramic tiles and one inch glass mosaic pieces all on a little rubi t300. Then cut and shaped with nippers.
Most have gone to friends and family some sold, some commissioned and a few i've kept for myself.There are a few around the country that i dont even have photos for as i sometimes forget to take one before they get picked up.
I'd hate to work out how many hours i've spent in total on all the work i've done. Most of the time i'm happy with the result.
The bitter sweet moment is when i've completed one and about to start on another, i think any one who tackles this kind of work would know what i mean.
I haven't tried to compare with anyone else.I dont think you can really, its just that what you produce is really got to be for yourself and nobody else. If in the meantime somebody likes what you produce and its for sale or if a friend or family member shows some delight in it well it's theirs.
Anyway here you go

 

[murf]

Bobby nz that work is stunning and an absolute pleasure to look at.

 

[Gazzer]

Superb stuff there Bobby.

 

[Spud]

wow Bobby what lovely work! bet you loved doing those

 

[Ian]

Stunning. The 3 frogs are my personal favourites

 

[jay]

Very nice Bobby

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Amazing work Bobby, I love the frogs also. But all really good, thanks for sharing

 

[Qwerty]

Mind blowing mosaic work Bobby :drool5:

 

[Colour Republic]

The 3 frogs are outstanding! I was really impressed by the painting of the clouds too until it dawned on me they were morrors and you'd taken the pictures outside pps:

 

[paul damian]

Bobby mate , what can you say, stunning work. well matched colours. Top.

 

[doug boardley]

great work bobby :drool5:

 

[kilty55]

i prefer the 4 frogs:coolgleamA:

pure cheek i know

 

[doug boardley]

the apocalyptic red horse is my favourite

 

[Colour Republic]

Only just seen your latest G, Gecko's are fast becoming your signiture pieces aren't they, always look great

 

[user123]

Woweeee!!!!! :hurray: Stunning stunning stunning, Bobby!!! And plenty proof that mosaic is limitless, absolutely! I love the Kereru sunrise best, that is really something and to me the most difficult, the funky mirror, inspired. Lovely to see, get back to it an once! :lol: and yes, the bitter sweet moment, I can relate, but also when favourites have to be passed on to their new owner... I am working on such a piece right now, and it's going to be so good... thanks for sharing, Bobby

 

[user123]

Only just seen your latest G, Gecko's are fast becoming your signiture pieces aren't they, always look great

A commission from America, Rob, thanks, and you know, I really like working onto stone... love it. but watch out for the next thing, not finished yet but soon(ish) ....

 

[user123]

The 3 frogs are outstanding! I was really impressed by the painting of the clouds too until it dawned on me they were morrors and you'd taken the pictures outside pps:

Yes, the three frogs, they are so good!! Mosaics rock...

 

[kilty55]

4 frogs :coolgleamA:

 

[Ian]

4 frogs :coolgleamA:

Oh yeah, so there is! I was about to give you the specsavers line! :lol:

 

[kilty55]

lol....

 

[bobbynz]

Thanks for all your wonderful and encouraging comments everyone. Sometimes i get to close to my work and forget to see it for what it is and end up not really appreciating how good they are. My wife tells me they are really good and that i'm just too fussy, so its good to recieve feedback from people that dont know me so well. So once again thanks guys and girls.
Oh and MG you are right i really should start something new and all this encouragement has motivated me so my next one will be a portrait of my wifes cat it will be a belated 25th wedding anniversary present which we will be celebrating next tuesday.:yikes: I'll put up a pic as soon as it is completed.

And i really have to comment on the quality of work that you guys a producing, just absolutely superb and a real pleasure to look at. I always look forward to checking out some latest work on this thread, thanks for sharing

 

[user123]

Thanks for all your wonderful and encouraging comments everyone. Sometimes i get to close to my work and forget to see it for what it is and end up not really appreciating how good they are. My wife tells me they are really good and that i'm just too fussy, so its good to recieve feedback from people that dont know me so well. So once again thanks guys and girls.
Oh and MG you are right i really should start something new and all this encouragement has motivated me so my next one will be a portrait of my wifes cat it will be a belated 25th wedding anniversary present which we will be celebrating next tuesday.:yikes: I'll put up a pic as soon as it is completed.

And i really have to comment on the quality of work that you guys a producing, just absolutely superb and a real pleasure to look at. I always look forward to checking out some latest work on this thread, thanks for sharing

Bobby, that's the artist's curse, I feel exactly the same, for ages just seeing the tiniest of imperfections and it also takes me ages to actually finish faffing with any one piece, always yet another bit of grout that needs smoothing, or even taking a bit out again and recutting or replacing it with another. And in one light I am happy, oh it's smooth, and then the next day under different light or with the close-up of the camera, oohh darn it's still not quite smooth enough, usually pretty invisible to the naked eye. I have got into the habit now of taking progress pics and look at it all on my pc as I work, as that gives me a much better overall idea, first seeing it from the distance and then being able to zoom in, almost to a microscopic degree, to see what bits might be tricky for grouting, like glass touching or just being too tight or too wide in relation to other pieces. The camera exaggerates things that may not be visible while working, but it's really helpful.

Looking forward to seeing your next piece, it's nice to see men get into mosaics, too, and each individual has a different style, there is enough space in the world for all of us.. go for it!!

 

[DHTiling]

Couple more jobs from this week.

Kitchen splash. 5 Mtrs

And tumbled crema beige marble onto lafarge cement pourable screed , overlaid with Dural CI +. 43 Mtrs

 

[DHTiling]

And some more pics from the big house up in the dales..

The marble bathroom is straight onto tanked block walls and then skimmed to stone.. and floor is Dural CI onto Gyvlon..

The wooden travertine is onto backer boards and skimmed either side and again floor onto Dural over Gyvlon..

Included some pics of the size of this house.. only pics i cannot find are the down stairs one of 170 mtrs of wooden trav..

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no wonder they can afford that tiler if the house is only a grand ???

2.5 million they recon... mad..

 

[Colour Republic]

Just finished this today, Bastille limestone.

Stone is from PHG. And kitchen fitted by strummerman.

Typical tiler! takes a picture of the floor when the real beauty is the fitted kitchen :lol: I need more pics!

 

[DHTiling]

Rob, the kitchen was real nice...

 

[user123]

Typical tiler! takes a picture of the floor when the real beauty is the fitted kitchen :lol: I need more pics!

:lol: .....

 

[probester1]

This is the first paid job i have done since finishing my 1 week course