How best to Tile a room?

[mp3wizard]

I've been using the 10mm trowel, what do you mean by method sorry?

 

[mp3wizard]

So basically what your saying is cut in the doorway to keep the grout line, that would be 1 big 1 small tile tile, cut them both until it reaches the wall, and then I can run a row of full tiles, is that right?

 

[Old Mod]

So basically what your saying is cut in the doorway to keep the grout line, that would be 1 big 1 small tile tile, cut them both until it reaches the wall, and then I can run a row of full tiles, is that right?

Yes, you have a short tile, if you will.
But keep the other joint running through, even tho it's off centre, it won't look right any other way.
But make sure you bring it through far enough to give you a few mil at your perimeter in the bathroom, or you'll still have to cut every tile against the wall.

 

[Flintstone]

By method I meant are you putting any adhesive on the back of the tile or just using 10mm trowel on the floor

 

[mp3wizard]

That makes sense thanks, yeah I've been back buttering tiles, I've had to build up adhesive on some tiles and i even put another bag of slc down as the floor was sloping off near bifolds and the adhesive was getting too thick.

 

[Flintstone]

If you need to build up more, I would advise combing the floor and the tile to double the amount of adhesive.

 

[mp3wizard]

thanks, yeah it started off with a normal amount of bed & backbutter but the futher along the room I got the more thicker it had to be, especially on the right handside, so what we did was keep a more flat edge on the trowel on certain sides to build up, the information on the adhesive bag said it's limited to 15mm, so it was getting excess of that so I decided it's best to put some more slc on that section, I'm surprised the levels were that off after using the packers as a gauge, very difficult to get right.

I've read from others that sometimes the levelling system creates hollows underneath, but it's definitely not the case here, it's a thick bed, and it's been more of a case of pushing down and wiping the excess coming threw the grout line several times until it matches the next tile rather than it being pulling up from the adhesive bed, I doubt those clips could pull it up anyway, my brother is a builder and is fairly butch and it took all his strength and a few seconds to pull them up to re level.

 

[mp3wizard]

I'm a bit worried about how much heat will actually be produced with all these thick layers, I've read that thicker slc will take longer to heat up but will retain the heat longer, not sure if the heat transfer threw thick adhesive is the same though.

 

[widler]

Hi Average,

Here's where I am at, I started from the third row on the right working my way to the bifolds, then moved along to the wall, on the left are the cuts, and the 4th row that's due to go on the right will be full sized tile.

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Looks like you have taken the correct advice and centred the room ish and not gone for a little cut ?
As for the rest of you, i got taught to centre the room be it floors or walls, we all get taught different ways, it just looks right to me , and if it does not i move it over, but usually either have a tile centre or grout line.
I was quite upseet about the fact you lot thought its fine to put a slip down one edge and put a bloody settee over it, twas a bit of a joke on your part , i actually had a bit of a laugh with a few chaps on a half a million quid house i was tiling last week reading the thread out

Good buy god bless

 

[average]

Hi Average,

Here's where I am at, I started from the third row on the right working my way to the bifolds, then moved along to the wall, on the left are the cuts, and the 4th row that's due to go on the right will be full sized tile.

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Not bad for DIYer.