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jonnyc
I have tried to get answers to this question before and the answers have been mixed.
i have just started a good sized floor in a domestic house which is about 260sq mts 736 x736 polished porcelain.
the tiles were not cheap and came from Italy.
inside the boxing there was a very detailed statement on how to fix tiles but absolutely no mention of directional arrows on back of tile that may need to be followed in installation.
anyway the tiles have been very difficult to fix as they flex as do a lot of large format porcelain but also the corners curl up on some tiles or bow up or down from centre tile out.
we have ended up with a proportion of tiles that are flush at the ends but with an approx 0.5mm lip at centre to adjoining tile. Tile joint 2mm
or flush for 650mm then flick up 0.5 to 1mm in last 100 mm of tile length.
frankly this is embarrassing and makes us look like we cannot fix a tile flat to someone who does not understand the bowing in tiles.
we are only talking 0.5mm deviation over 738mm but in my company this is unacceptable fixing
i have to say that up until now we have been able to cope with the usual problems of porcelain but on this job I am so disappointed and worried about taking on further large format porcelain in future.
i don't want to turn down work like this as my company is set up for large format stone and we are very experienced in bedding large tiles and I am thinking that if we are struggling then there must be many others as well.
am I alone in having problems with bowed tiles which are square laid?
are we missing a trick during installation?
Does the arrow on back of tile if followed Negate lipping as tiles will all deform and bow in relation to how they enter the firing process ? I don't believe this as there are 4 axis options if you have to follow arrow and therefore we should have 25 percentage lippage and we don't have any where near that.
i have just started a good sized floor in a domestic house which is about 260sq mts 736 x736 polished porcelain.
the tiles were not cheap and came from Italy.
inside the boxing there was a very detailed statement on how to fix tiles but absolutely no mention of directional arrows on back of tile that may need to be followed in installation.
anyway the tiles have been very difficult to fix as they flex as do a lot of large format porcelain but also the corners curl up on some tiles or bow up or down from centre tile out.
we have ended up with a proportion of tiles that are flush at the ends but with an approx 0.5mm lip at centre to adjoining tile. Tile joint 2mm
or flush for 650mm then flick up 0.5 to 1mm in last 100 mm of tile length.
frankly this is embarrassing and makes us look like we cannot fix a tile flat to someone who does not understand the bowing in tiles.
we are only talking 0.5mm deviation over 738mm but in my company this is unacceptable fixing
i have to say that up until now we have been able to cope with the usual problems of porcelain but on this job I am so disappointed and worried about taking on further large format porcelain in future.
i don't want to turn down work like this as my company is set up for large format stone and we are very experienced in bedding large tiles and I am thinking that if we are struggling then there must be many others as well.
am I alone in having problems with bowed tiles which are square laid?
are we missing a trick during installation?
Does the arrow on back of tile if followed Negate lipping as tiles will all deform and bow in relation to how they enter the firing process ? I don't believe this as there are 4 axis options if you have to follow arrow and therefore we should have 25 percentage lippage and we don't have any where near that.
