dot and dab

[Ste450]

If your method works for you and you're achieving solid bed without exceeding adhesive depth limits then good for you mate.
The bathroom you've posted looks like a very nice job but as for people on here being 'gobsmacked', i think not. Also, compared to some on here, 13 years tiling is not a long time.

I do the all the plumbing, joinery and plastering, not just the tiling and my old man's been in the game for 40+ years and is a highly mutiskilled builder. 13 years is plenty long enough but to be honest, it doesn't matter how long someone has been tiling, I know lads that have been tiling for 30 years and they're *****. As for people being, "gobsmacked" I was referring to one person in particular as apparently I was living in "cuckoo land" using this method. It would be interesting to see some of the work from the lads on here...see if some of them can they're put their money where their mouth is...

 

[hmtiling]

I do the all the plumbing, joinery and plastering, not just the tiling and my old man's been in the game for 40+ years and is a highly mutiskilled builder. 13 years is plenty long enough but to be honest, it doesn't matter how long someone has been tiling, I know lads that have been tiling for 30 years and they're *****. As for people being, "gobsmacked" I was referring to one person in particular as apparently I was living in "cuckoo land" using this method. It would be interesting to see some of the work from the lads on here...see if some of them can they're put their money where their mouth is...

so you do all the joinery and plastering and still dot and dab...
I'm gobsmacked now pal!

 

[Andy Allen]

That's what I was thinking...lol
You reel off a list of things you do yet you can't prep a wall or floor for tiling using a notched trowel....lol

 

[Andy Allen]

Who is that Andy ?

StevieBoy was the one that blobbed everything , even packed old tiles under the tiling to pack them up rather than leveling the floor with slc..

 

[Flintstone]

Steve, you don't need to come on here all billy big balls, there are a lot of highly skilled and knowledgeable tilers on here, most of which I would think your not impressing

 

[Ste450]

Steve, you don't need to come on here all billy big balls, there are a lot of highly skilled and knowledgeable tilers on here, most of which I would think your not impressing

Couldn't really give a damn what anyone thinks of me on here and I've certainly not come here to impress, I've come on here simply to defend the validity of the way I tile. Some of you have been pretty nice and have some common sense, while others including yourself "Localtiler," have had a rather ignorant attitude! I've just flicked through a few photos of your work and it seems pretty neat at a glance. Look a bit closer and well, your wetrooms don't look up to much mate, one especially. And what's with recess? Can't you build it so you can get a full mosaic instead a tiny slither of a cut! Both these photos look a mess...and you're...ripping into me lol!

 

[Tile Shop]

*** pop-corn ready ***

The defecation is about to hit the oscillation!

 

[Ste450]

Steve, you don't need to come on here all billy big balls, there are a lot of highly skilled and knowledgeable tilers on here, most of which I would think your not impressing

This is how neat a wetroom and recess should look

 

[Flintstone]

It'll look great then when there's water gathering in them voids!

I just tile I don't build voids and stud walls out.
You are supposed to Silicon to the drain, not grout. And the moisture you see around the drain is soapy water. Not that I should have to explain!
I can see more chips than my local chip shop in them elvelope cuts of yours.
It all comes down to you arguing that dot and dabbing is a perfectly fine method, when it's not. No need to get your knickers in a twist about it

 

[Andy Allen]

 

[Ste450]

It'll look great then when there's water gathering in them voids!

I just tile I don't build voids and stud walls out.
You are supposed to Silicon to the drain, not grout. And the moisture you see around the drain is soapy water. Not that I should have to explain!
I can see more chips than my local chip shop in them elvelope cuts of yours.
It all comes down to you arguing that dot and dabbing is a perfectly fine method, when it's not. No need to get your knickers in a twist about it

What, you mean you just tile...and that's the standard of work you do!? haha!!
Picking faults in my work is like picking peanuts out of poo, there are no chips in my work mate, well maybe half a mm chips at the most, wow, get your microscope out lad. There's one on yours, top right it's a big one as well!
Theres no point blaming something else "the soapy water" anyone with half a brain can see its as rough as a bears arse. Why on earth would you even put a photo like that up on here to start with. There's nothing like a dirty looking, soap ridden wet room for your portfolio Apart from that its still look bad.
You dont have to seal to the grid with Silicon...watch the DVD. You do realise that water gets underneath the tiles in a wet area...that's why it's called "a wet room" and that's why you Tank it out. If you use Silicon, it looks like a dogs dinner... There's no shame in admiting you've be taking the mick out of a better tradesmen, seems the joke is on you in this case

 

[Flintstone]

Whatever you like. I haven't seen anyone with such a bee in there bonnet for years, you need to chill out blobby

 

[Old Mod]

Ok so enough is enough!!
You can have as many lively discussions about techniques as you like, we all enjoy that.
However, what I will not witness is a personal slanging match, period!
You want to play like that, go do it on FB!
This is a public forum, and I will not have you making the forum look like a joke, you're supposed to be professionals, act like it.

 

[Ste450]

Ok so enough is enough!!
You can have as many lively discussions about techniques as you like, we all enjoy that.
However, what I will not witness is a personal slanging match, period!
You want to play like that, go do it on FB!
This is a public forum, and I will not have you making the forum look like a joke, you're supposed to be professionals, act like it.

Fair comment and I apologise for my part. What I don't like about these forums is that people are telling others that this method is bad or is cowboyish. You can tell from the standard of someone's work wether a job has been done with pride or not. I posted earlier an article of a new new method of spot tiling which everyone has conveniently seemed to ignore. People don't like to admit that maybe sometimes they can be wrong and that's the problem. I don't want customers coming up to me telling me I'm doing my job wrong because they've been looking in a forum such as this! I don't use "5 spots" but how would they know that, they would just see me spotting the back of the tile and presume the worst. I'm going to write to the British Standards agency myself to express feelings on the matter, how far I get I'm unsure. I didn't intend to come here to cause trouble...

 

[AndY mac]

Well said Marc. But I did enjoy that. I'm sick.