Kitchen floor and wall

[Varley]

Good luck with your job, mate. Suspect it will take longer than two days though. 3.5m of 4" tiles is about 350 tiles to fix, you may need to grout the wall at the beginning of day 2 unless you are going to use rapidset on the wall. A lot depends on how may obstacles you have to cut around.

It is a good tip from PJC to try and get some tiles on the floor and have them set overnight so you have something to walk on. Again, rapidset would help if you can't do it the day before.

Grumpy

Great advice there grump, couldn't agree with you more, I would have allowed 3 days for this.

As the other guys have said, walls first then floor.

 

[guy1976]

The optimum use of time is to either let the floor dry overnight, or lay enough of the floor on day 1 so that you can access the walls on day 2. What you want to avoid is on day 2 fixing the floor and having to wait for it to dry before grouting whilst doing nothing.

Depending on room layout I would fix wall tiles for maybe 3/4 of day 1. Then fix enough floor tiles so you can gain access to the walls when dry. Day 2 - finish sticking wall tiles if necessary, stick rest of floor, grout walls, grout floor. No wasted time.

i think santa has has a spot on method imop

 

[PUGRWD]

Thanks guys !
I have found out that the job has been postponed for a while due to another problem with kitchen ceiling but I will post back here when its done !
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Good luck with your job, mate. Suspect it will take longer than two days though. 3.5m of 4" tiles is about 350 tiles to fix, you may need to grout the wall at the beginning of day 2 unless you are going to use rapidset on the wall. A lot depends on how may obstacles you have to cut around.
Grumpy

Grumpy

My first "paid" job for a local kitchen company was just under 4 m2 of 4" porcelin (about 15mm thick ) 4 double sockets and 2 spurs edgeing around window etc I had not seen the job but was told its a day. (day rate) It took me 12 hours to fix them then(didnt even stop to eat) I went back the next morning to grout ! I thought it was me being slow as it was my first paid job !( Looked really good tho)So you think I got a rough deal ? or the tilers they normally use are real fast ?

 

[smokey1234x]

i agree with santa do walls first then b4 the end of day 1 put all full floor tiles down

 

[PUGRWD]

Smokey,
Do you think it would be possible to fix that many tiles in a day ? ( i am a new to the "art" )

 

[grumpygrouter]

Smokey,
Do you think it would be possible to fix that many tiles in a day ? ( i am a new to the "art" )

My first paying job was also 4" tiles but was in the region of 7 to 8m2 with 15 sockets and plugs as well as kitchen units and window sills to cut around. Took me forever to finish.

It isn't so much the application of the tiles to the walls but what you need to cut around, how clean you can keep your work and how good your surface is.

I think you did very well on your first job to fix that many tiles in 12 hours, but that is hard graft when you don't stop for a break.

Personally, I would certainly allow more than 2 days for the work.

Grumpy