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    setting out advice for a beginner

    Hi All. Im about to attempt to tile my bathroom floor and unfortunately im falling at the first hurdle of the setting out. The room is rectangular - 1.85*2.5, with the bath on the left wall going the length of the room as you walk through the door, the sink in the far left corner and toilet...
    • Burnz0
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    • advice aus beginner out setting setting out tilers usa
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Wall tiling Setting out Advice needed

    I'v attached a picture of a wall I'm tiling that includes my en-suite door, looking at it from left to write the widt is 940mm to the door, the door opening is 740mm and the other side of the door is 960mm, my tile widtht is 275mm, basically my question is to ensure i dont have really small cuts...
    • PMM9BRO
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    • advice aus needed out setting setting out tilers tiling usa wall wall tiling
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    advice for setting out?

    Hi I am new to tiling. I would like to get some guidance for setting out . My first project is a a single wall in a cloakroom with a central window. I will need to tile around sink waste and soil pipe. Any good videos for setting out and dealing with out of true wall and window reveals? casioman.
    • casioman
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    • advice aus out setting setting out tilers usa
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Floor temp when setting tile

    I am setting some tile on a heated slab in a poorly insulated sunroom. To keep it above 10 in the room the floor must be at least 22. At what temp should I worry about the adhesive drying too fast? I have done it in hot weather but usually it's humid too. Also, getting frustrated with a...
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    Setting up shop

    After 12 years on my knees, I with another tiler have decided to set up a retail tile shop. Our plan is to start slow and set it up as a showroom at first as we have most of the builders in town as our clients. We plan to extend the showroom into a full manned shop at some point within the year...
    • AotearoaBrad
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    • aus setting shop usa
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Tile setting out advice required please

    I'm about to start tiling my bathroom project. Tiles are 600 x 300 porcelain to be laid 'landscape' and in vertical columns (NOT brick bond). There is a also a narrow band of marble mosaic that will be about 2/3 of the way up the wall. I've spent a few hours today assessing the setting out...
    • Chris_911
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    • advice aus out please required setting setting out tile tile setting tilers usa
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Setting up website

    Hi just wondering whether anybody has got any advise on setting up your website i have heard you can do it yourself. any advise would be great thanks Peter. Sorry if posted in the wrong place new to forum
    • ph tiling
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    • aus setting usa website
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Cutting "Envelope" and setting out for diagonal on wet dec

    Hi guys, any and all advice with my first envelope laying would be greatly appreciated and typically it would be diagonal set. I have watched a couple of youtube vids Impey etc, to see whats meant by envelope and I've read some posts re snap and rub with stone as apposed to wet cut but the...
    • derekdickinson
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    • aus cutting out setting setting out tilers usa wet
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Keraquick & Latex plus long setting time??

    Hello! Tiled 4mtrs quartz starlights today - 300 x 300 tile hq ones - on my bathroom floor. 22mm floorboards screwed to joists overboarded with aquapanel, glued and screwed... so far so good... Finished laying at 4.15, just checked and still hasnt set :helpsmilie: All mixed as Mapei...
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    Brickbond floor setting out

    I am starting my aunties kitchen floor on sat and need sone advice, its a galley kitchen shape and only has 1 wall were i can measure off would i be able to measure off the kick boards to find centre of the floor and do i go with the biggest measurement to avoid any deviance?
    • Coppy
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    • aus bond brick brickbond fashion floor out setting setting out tilers usa
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    white quartz setting.

    Hi guys, this is my first post, hope you guys with more experience can help me out. Me and my wife have decided to go for white quartz effect in the porch. I have purchased sparkley white cladding from fleebay. She wants to put mosaic white quartz tiles on the wall (300 by 300mm sheet) and...
    • Moneysaver
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    • aus quartz setting usa white
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Adhesive not setting

    Hi, I am having my bathroom ripped out and swapped for a walk in shower but experiencing a few problems. I am using Midnight Black Quartz Tiles 600 x 300. My builder has fitted the shower and tiled for me as my back doesn't allow me to do these things any more. I was tiling the rest of the...
    • jasta1966
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    • adhesive aus not setting tile adhesive usa
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Setting out a floor

    So I'm finally about to tile my bathroom floor, (43.5 x 43.5 ceramic) and have a dilemma, previously I've always managed to set tiles out so that they're fairly central as you walk through the doorway, if the tiles weren't even running along the walls either side it didn't matter as they were...
    • Tresco
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    • aus floor out setting setting out tilers usa
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Setting out mosaics

    Hi guys I am fairly new to the tiling game. Have been tiling for about 1 1/2 now and yet to do a job and yet to do a job with alot of mosaics execpt for border work. I was wondering how you go about setting out your starting point if a large are was to be tiled with mosaics so you know how your...
    • Nico9387
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    • aus mosaic mosaic tiling mosaics out setting setting out tilers usa
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Slower setting floor Adhesive

    Until now iv only used fast rapid setting floor adhesive like Bal supercover ect but i'm finding it frustrating having to stop and mix half way through floors. Mixing drill gets plastered and i often waste adhesive. (im not the quickest). Does anyone recommend using a slower setting adhesive...
    • danmasey
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    • adhesive aus floor setting tile adhesive usa
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    slow setting rapid set

    Hello all, anyone finding the low temperatures affecting setting times this week and last? We're using a pallet of keraquick white and it's damn slow in a cold house,lol. No doubt into double figures setting time, it is setting well though when done.
    • hillhead
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    • rapid rapid set set setting tile adhesive usa
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Setting out, room not square

    Hi, I have measured from the kickerboard to opposite wall(in two places) it is out by approx 2cm. Should I make a parallel line from the wall? Or will this cause the tiles to look off near to the kickerboard. Have also tried from wall to wall, at it is slightly out as well. The kickerboard...
    • Dsmart
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    • not out room setting setting out square tilers usa
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    2 Setting Out Questions = move centre line and off set brick bond

    Hi All, Been absorbing all you advice and tips on here.... top work guys! I am currently tiling my bathroom in 600 x 300 porcelain floor to ceiling and have two questions which affect two different walls Question 1 - I have sink which is 600 wide and I have already stuck the tile behind it...
    • itidiot
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    • bond brick brick bond centre line off out questions set setting setting out tilers usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    setting out question.

    was reading an old thread and in it a lot of tilers said that instead of using battens they cut the first row of tiles in and tile up the way. How do you set out if your doing this? Been thinking about it and have a general idea of my own but am keen for some answers from the pro's. Thanks in...
    • NorthSeaTiger
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    • out setting setting out tilers usa
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Tile adhesive not setting

    This is the third time i have had the problem that the powdered floor adhesive is not setting after 3-4 hours. I have been tiling for about 4 years now and have never have this happened before. It first happened in the summer tiling outside with rapid set adhesive and has happened again today...
    • little eagle
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    • adhesive not setting tile tile adhesive usa
    • Replies: 30
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum

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