How to tile a house with nothing in square ? How to clean old tiles ?

[werner]

1) How I tile a house out of square , like on the first picture ? The entrance is at the small wall on the bottom. Obviously one can't use the direction of the door and square to it as reference, intuitively I'ld use the direction of the middle of the longest direction

2) How to clean dirty tiles ? Is there any liquid where one can put them in overnight so that the old paste or ciment goes off ?

 

[Spud]

Re: How to tile a house with nothing in square ? How to clean old tile

your set out diagram looks good to me ,the tiles on the other hand do not look like they will be easily cleaned ,it may be worth buying some new ones

 

[DHTiling]

Re: How to tile a house with nothing in square ? How to clean old tile

Pic 1 looks good to me ..

Pic 2 ... don't be silly and buy some new ones

 

[werner]

Re: How to tile a house with nothing in square ? How to clean old tile



I tiled that already.

However, as I'm still in the fase of learning, this is an example of a case what I don't know to deal with, so for learn and for make the next work better, I ask.

I used the middle of the long wals as reference. And because the inhabitant didn't clean the tiles (nor me), I used them dirty. For absorb the old joint paste on the tiles, I made bigger joints. However, with the very variating amount of old past at the backside, some tils are higher than others.

Pls see the pictures and inform what is wrong, or what I could do better

 

[afright]

Re: How to tile a house with nothing in square ? How to clean old tile

Looks like youve wash them off with water from a muddy puddle.

 

[m3fitter]

Re: How to tile a house with nothing in square ? How to clean old tile

should have used spring water lol... may be some left over from the grout !

 

[Eduardo]

Re: How to tile a house with nothing in square ? How to clean old tile

Should have be fitted directly on the screed.a lot easier, and the result was a flat surface whit this tiles.

 

[werner]

Re: How to tile a house with nothing in square ? How to clean old tile

The tiles came from another house what broke down. I set them on the fresh chap with a cement-water barbotinha. The dirtyness at the surface is no problem, but the old paste, at the backside and at the joint's side, very variating from tile to tile. The inhabitant don't clean them, nor me, what would not be rentable. If there isn't any liquid to put them in which dissolves that, or any other trick what I don't know to clean easily used tiles from paste or ciment.

The old joint's ciment/paste at the sides was only absorbed by setting the bottom with larger / varying new joints, and the different thickness of paste at the backside (even varying on each plate) was not absorbed completely by the fresh chap and barbotinha.

Also, how I deal with a house where everything is out of square ? See the map at the 1st post. I can't use the direction of the door and square to it, because then all tiles would be one-side inclined to the long-direction walls. But using the middle of them, as I did, I get the tiles inclined to the entrance door. What's the best solution for this ? My own idea would be, tile this (approximately) diagonally ( I didn't this just in this case, because I had to cut all edge / corner plates with the angle-cutter because of the old paste at the backside, what would be much more work if to cut everything diagonally )

Beside of learn better to treat with tecnical problems, I also need to learn what kind of work is better to refuse. F.ex. if the material isn't good.

The inhabitant was satisfied, but not me.

So, if someone has experience with this problem, let me know what to do