Laying Wood Effect Porcelain - Advice and grout selection

[Buckfast]

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Which grout colour do you recommend?!

 

[Old Mod]

Obviously it's personal choice, for me, I'd go for a darker contrast.
Reasons being that with a darker colour it won't as a rule change colour with wear,tear and washing.
Also if you look at the average timber floor,there is a noticeable joint between the planks, which in a lot of cases appears very dark.
If you have a lighter colour it instantly looks like tiles.

 

[Tile Shop]

Can you draw me a diagram of a short random bond Paul please, don't quite follow.

In this, the tile is 1200x230. The stagger is random between 100 and 300mm (quarter). You could go longer if the tile is flat enough. but this is my preferred layout.

 

[Italy]

In this, the tile is 1200x230. The stagger is random between 100 and 300mm (quarter). You could go longer if the tile is flat enough. but this is my preferred layout.
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these, straighten with rls 🙂 there is a trick 😉

 

[LM]

I wouldn't be bothered tiling planks now without clips, so much quicker, better and a God send for bowed tiles 😉

 

[Italy]

someone knows the trick?
because for me it is too difficult to explain.
otherwise later on I design

 

[LM]

someone knows the trick?
because for me it is too difficult to explain.
otherwise later on I design

Well I'm always keen to learn Antonio, hopefully you can show me a trick about bowed tiles that I never knew. I look forward to your design 🙂

 

[Italy]

I think that someone know already ...
it's just the procedure of pulling rls.

NO. 1 2 3
YES. 1 3 2

the pocedure NO, because after the second, the third becomes too low and rls, fails to level good.
the procedure YES. first pull one, then pull 3, finally the second, including supporting one knee, succeeds to level embarking the tile.
while rls number 1 and 3 remain precise.
I posed 100x50 boarded, brick type, same procedure, however, to pull the number 2, I went up standing to the tile. 65kg, to straighten tile. (The story must remain between us) 😉

 

[Italy]

already they knew all...................🙁

 

[LM]

I think that someone know already ...
it's just the procedure of pulling rls.

NO. 1 2 3
YES. 1 3 2

the pocedure NO, because after the second, the third becomes too low and rls, fails to level good.
the procedure YES. first pull one, then pull 3, finally the second, including supporting one knee, succeeds to level embarking the tile.
while rls number 1 and 3 remain precise.
I posed 100x50 boarded, brick type, same procedure, however, to pull the number 2, I went up standing to the tile. 65kg, to straighten tile. (The story must remain between us) 😉

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Yes Antonio I have done this before, but only on a very short staggered bond with a plank at least 900mm long. By doing this your splitting the resistance in half because points 1 & 3 are clamped the distance point 2 has to travel to be flush is halved and easier to achieve.
You explained that very well, bravo!

 

[LM]

Before I discovered clamps like rls I achieved this with small wedges carefully positioned under certain points of the tile and heavy weights on top of the opposing tile, much slower and heart breaking 🙁

 

[Italy]

Before I discovered clamps like rls I achieved this with small wedges carefully positioned under certain points of the tile and heavy weights on top of the opposing tile, much slower and heart breaking 🙁

;(

 

[One Day]

I just finished these today. 60sqm and before tiling i installed 10mm insulation boards and ufh...

 

[Italy]

I just finished these today. 60sqm and before tiling i installed 10mm insulation boards and ufh...
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I prefer photos with laying horizontally, not vertically 😉

 

[gamma38]

Where did you get your pump suction cup from @impish ? i've been after one like that for a while.