Gary and a couple of the other guys test a lot of products both new and old and give feedback on here - usually in the form of a video. Do a search for the testing thread and you'll see what I mean.
Gary and a couple of the other guys test a lot of products both new and old and give feedback on here - usually in the form of a video. Do a search for the testing thread and you'll see what I mean.
Just seems like alot of hassle when at the end of the day you butter your tiles and press them down to get good coverage anyway! It's a lot quicker to ! But Many great inventions have to start somewhere !!
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Diamond Pool Finishers
Thanks for the film Gary, i must say the one you are testing looks like a cheap eastern copy ,of the ramondi (top quality ) can you get one of them to test against it ~~~?
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Spud
Yes it was just a cheap one Ray picked up from a tool market in china costing 20 bucks, we might be meeting Raimondi soon and will look into seeing if they will bring their hand held tool with them, theirs has a nylon base which will protect the tile from scratching, the plate on this device is metal ,vibration tools do play a big part in the fixing of the large format tiles and sheet porcelain products so I will carry on experimenting with this until I have a method worked out
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Ceramico tiling
cool vid but what a mission! If I was forced to use one I would have to have a cordless one!
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Colour Republic
Did you use it for the whole floor Gary? i.e. did you persist or give up and go back to your previous methods?
Scratching would be my main concern, it's grit (or sand from the addy) getting underneath that would be my main concern. Were they Rays tiles? As the ones I saw had a slight textured matt finish which would be harder to scratch than a glossier flat tile. I'm guessing at least.
Scratching would be my main concern, it's grit (or sand from the addy) getting underneath that would be my main concern. Were they Rays tiles? As the ones I saw had a slight textured matt finish which would be harder to scratch than a glossier flat tile. I'm guessing at least.
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Spud
yes Rob they are Porcel-thin tiles they are the new antislip range Ray has just got in with an extremely high pendulum test rating I would be concerned with scratch tiles too but I can honestly say that the machine did not damage the tiles in any way, I used the machine for the first day on the job but was under pressure to get it completed on the friday before xmas so I went back to rubbing the tile in to its bed and using looser adhesive on day 2 the job was 37m2 with Ditra and was tiled and grouted in 2 days with a labourer helping me
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Colour Republic
Cheers. I'm sure if you get the method down then it shouldn't add too much time at all but it's always going to be slow going at the start.
btw how was the floor constructed? It looks like raised access flooring?
btw how was the floor constructed? It looks like raised access flooring?
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Spud
yes Rob raised access flooring ,metal tiles drilled and scewed to the posts overlaid with 18mm marine plywood, ditra stuck with Af 200
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Diamond Pool Finishers
Nice one Gary,there would be nothing stopping you getting some plastic-faced sponge and cutting to size and sticking it to the vibration plate underneath, it will take the risk of damaging the tiles away !i have been thinking of buying one of the ramondi one's for my mosaic work, as you can adjust the vibration rate on them,and this is more appealing to me on a tool so you can change to the different materials we work with,!! but looking forward to more on this m8........
