A couple of benders

[Spud]

shocking how many benders are around these days with tiles getting bigger ,here are some plank effect porcelain tiles 900 x 150 from a factory called ariostea
please feel free to post pictures of benders that you have been asked to lay :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Dougs Third Go]

did some random bond ones last week Gary, 900 x 150's, I kept joint distance to a minimum they were hellish bent.

 

[Spud]

did my best with these Doug had to go with a 3mm joint and cut some of the tiles smaller to reduce lippage it looked passable when finshed

 

[Stef]

Got asked to lay some benders last year down Canal street Manchester!!

 

[DHTiling]

Benders are not good , they play havoc on the straight ones.

 

[jonnyc]

i saw a job yesterday where client going to buy 800 x 400 tiles called future stone. apparently it has a bit of porcelain in it but called a stoneware tile from italy.
anyone come across this.
my first question to supplier was if it comes bowed as client wants brickbond and i was advised that this was not an issue with this product and it is stainproof without needing sealer.
nice looking tile i have to say.
anyone come across this before.
regarding gary post above i wish i had a photo of a saudi arabian sandstone that i fitted in mark wilkinson and smallbone showrooms some years ago.
they were planks ranging from 1200 to 2000. 20 mm thick and 180mm wide and called wenge boards.
linear markings like wood boards.
in fact i think that this may be the product that porcelain manufacturers have since copied in recent years .
I did these floors about 6 years ago.
you could not lift the pieces flat face up or down as they just broke in half and if you held them on end and gave them a waggle you could get 150mm of movement at end of board no problem.
loads of fixers had a go in showrooms in uk and usa with some horrendous results.
i worked out we needed to use fast set only and had to put weights on each piece as we laid them and leave till set as they curled massively when drying out.
I have never used these lash clips but if ever there was a valid case for them it would be for the saudi wenge board.
the joke was that none of the showrooms ever sold one of these floors before wilkinson and smallbone went bust but they still sit in the showrooms and both kitchen companies do not sell stone any more.
waste of time!!

 

[John Benton]

Flippin eck, if you threw them away, they'd come back to you, more like boomerangs :yikes:

 

[Qwerty]

Becoming all too common!

 

[Peter]

Noticed some tile quality in the last year or two has been shocking, even from reputable Italian manufacturers that I've never had a problem with in the past.

 

[Pebbs]

I have also laid some of these benders from Ariostea....they were just as bad. These benders are everywhere...we put some Mutina large formats in last week which cost literally a kings ransom...they were bent as well.

Lynn

 

[Peter]

Thankfully broken bond is a bit out of fashion now and most customers just want tiles stacked.

 

[AliGage]

Thankfully broken bond is a bit out of fashion now and most customers just want tiles stacked.

Agreed. It's funny how things change. Wasn't that long ago everyone wanted "brick" effect.
Tiles fixed landscape, creating crisp and straight lines seems to be the fashion nowadays.

 

[thompsonbrown]

Laid these 900x150 a few weeks ago. Great tiles really straight thing they were TAU tiles

 

[CJ]

I thought this thread was for a couple of benders coming out of the closet.

:yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:

 

[Peter]

Agreed. It's funny how things change. Wasn't that long ago everyone wanted "brick" effect.
Tiles fixed landscape, creating crisp and straight lines seems to be the fashion nowadays.

600x300 broken bond with an elbow height horizontal border. Fortunately customers are easily talked out of it these days.