Do you remember when ....

[steve-tiler]

Reading this thread makes me think about when I started in 2001

One of the tradesmen when I started was 66 and retired about 6 months later, he had a water level and dot dabbed everything, never used a serrated trowel.
He used cardboard for spacers which as 'the boy' you had to rip up boxes to keep him supplied and grouted with his fingers and a damp cloth. He liked using a hand tile saw and an hand wound hole cutter which clipped on to the rubi ts-60.


He too used to have the bag of sawdust for cleaning the floors.

 

[Spud]

Nothing wrong with the old methods , still the most economical way of fixing tiles in my opinion 10 sqm floor fixed in sand and cement at 25mm bed depth will cost under £20 for the sand and cement
how much would it cost for levelling compound and adhesive with that type of build up 20 bags of leveller and 2 bags of adhesive around 300 pounds

 

[Simons70]

Nothing wrong with the old methods , still the most economical way of fixing tiles in my opinion 10 sqm floor fixed in sand and cement at 25mm bed depth will cost under £20 for the sand and cement
how much would it cost for levelling compound and adhesive with that type of build up 20 bags of leveller and 2 bags of adhesive around 300 pounds

Not just cheap method but never have the flat and level tiles with adhesive like with sand and cement after vibration....

 

[enduro]

I remember when builders paid you on time..... :lol: only joking!!

 

[Andy Allen]

I remember when builders paid you on time..... :lol: only joking!!

Thats going back some years........2 shillings a yard was the going rate..lol

 

[Brian the Tile]

I remember when builders paid you on time..... :lol: only joking!!

Bloody hell enduro that must have been a long long time ago

 

[SJPurdy]

I still carry my old tipped chisel and pin hammer, in the spare tools box, on my van!
In my garage I even have an old notched trowel that has ~6mm notches spaced every ~25mm - it used to be the norm and the tiles didn't fall off.

 

[afright]

Would carry a tilley lamp as lot of jobs had no electric it was a pain riding along on my moped with my tool bucket strapped on the back and the tilley lamp swinging on the handle bars my, boss only supplied one mantle a week so if it went then it was down to you to buy them,also remember using pitch for the joints,did a few battery rooms at telephone exchanges,did not have a pitched pot had a old copper boiler,one day left it on to long melted the bottom the pitch caught alight and set the ceiling alight.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Would carry a tilley lamp as lot of jobs had no electric it was a pain riding along on my moped with my tool bucket strapped on the back and the tilley lamp swinging on the handle bars my, boss only supplied one mantle a week so if it went then it was down to you to buy them,also remember using pitch for the joints,did a few battery rooms at telephone exchanges,did not have a pitched pot had a old copper boiler,one day left it on to long melted the bottom the pitch caught alight and set the ceiling alight.

Problem with Tilley and camping gaz lamps were they would sweat the walls and if you were grouting the white cement wouldn't go off. On damp dull days we often had to create a wind to help it dry enough to polish off.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I don't remember any of that ha ha.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

You used candles!

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Lol candles would have been a luxury.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

..... Matchsticks were used for spacers.

 

[afright]

I used dried spaghetti as spacers in the 70s.

 

[Andy Allen]

Anyone use spinks tiles....they would come with perforated cardboard sheets that you broke off to use as spacers....