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The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP
Does anyone remember the floated coat method? This was usually used on Shaws twin tiles. Twin tiles as the name suggests were glazed tiles made back to back, so each tile required a sharp blow with a well aimed gauging trowel to split the two tiles.
The substrate concrete/ brick would be keyed using a scutch hammer to give a rough surface, this was before SBR primers etc. A scratch coat of sand and cement would be applied followed by a top coat, set by dots and screeds as TF Ed has explained many times on TF. this finished render was then marked out using a staff and levels. A grid could be formed using plumb and level lines onto the render.
Using this method you could have one tiler start in the top far right of a wall, and another tiler start at the bottom far left of the same wall, and every thing worked out spot on. The twin tiles had quite a deep key/ frog on the back, this was back skimmed with 1:1 sand and cement.
I had a phone call last week from my old mentor Tommy Milne mastercrafstman now 73yrs old, asking me if I remembered placing a time capsule in a scum channel at Oldham baths 35yrs ago, I told him I did the tiles were fixed using floated coat and are still rock solid. They are talking of demolishing the baths, I want to be there when they do, the time capsule had a record of the front page of the Daily Mirror plus the names of all the fixers on the job, Park Drive *** packet. Kit Kat wrapper sad maybe but It shows the old methods worked.
The substrate concrete/ brick would be keyed using a scutch hammer to give a rough surface, this was before SBR primers etc. A scratch coat of sand and cement would be applied followed by a top coat, set by dots and screeds as TF Ed has explained many times on TF. this finished render was then marked out using a staff and levels. A grid could be formed using plumb and level lines onto the render.
Using this method you could have one tiler start in the top far right of a wall, and another tiler start at the bottom far left of the same wall, and every thing worked out spot on. The twin tiles had quite a deep key/ frog on the back, this was back skimmed with 1:1 sand and cement.
I had a phone call last week from my old mentor Tommy Milne mastercrafstman now 73yrs old, asking me if I remembered placing a time capsule in a scum channel at Oldham baths 35yrs ago, I told him I did the tiles were fixed using floated coat and are still rock solid. They are talking of demolishing the baths, I want to be there when they do, the time capsule had a record of the front page of the Daily Mirror plus the names of all the fixers on the job, Park Drive *** packet. Kit Kat wrapper sad maybe but It shows the old methods worked.
