Levelling System

[J Sid]

Yes I understand,
Get yourself a good rubber mallet. I like these
http://www.kwiksplit.co.uk/cgi-bin/...&PN=Rubber_Mallets___other_Products.html#a512
Halfway down page.
You will find you can tap the tile to close joints up and help with getting a good bed coverage and level before inserting the wedge.

On smaller floors such as bathrooms I nearly always dry lay with cuts first. Then mix up a bag of adhesive and lay.

 

[TheNamek]

Yes I understand,
Get yourself a good rubber mallet. I like these
http://www.kwiksplit.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?WD=mallet rubber&PN=Rubber_Mallets___other_Products.html#a512
Halfway down page.

I have several. Mostly used to keep my two year old at bay! (Just kidding! - * in case people can't take a joke these crazy, politically correct days!)

 

[Dan]

I didn't know you could use them on walls! That just brings a whole host of other scary thoughts in my mind!!!

 

[Old Mod]

I didn't know you could use them on walls! That just brings a whole host of other scary thoughts in my mind!!!

Oh they've helped me pull together a few difficult walls!
Not sure about the choice of new emoticons tho!

 

[J Sid]

Great on walls when needed

 

[Dan]

There's a kid more smilies coming I just didn't have time screw around it uses a cool new but awkward way to install them that uses less server load and yada yada yada lol

 

[xlilgemx84]

As a fellow newbie (at tiling), I wouldn't worry too much about it. When I set to do my bathroom I bought the lash levelling system and thought it would solve most of my problems! Truth is, in use, they can help to give a quick level between tiles but can also be fiddly and cause their own problems, particularly if the adhesive bed is thinner in patches (uneven surface). They can also cause loads of problems if not tiling all in one hit. They were great when I did the largest wall in one day. The wall was good n straight n flat and the clips worked well so I could speed along.

In the end, I stopped using the lash clips because i felt that they caused me more problems than without, that and I just got better at tiling in the (very long) time it has taken me to do a bathroom. I've just done the floor using 600x300 in herringbone without using the clips. I did consider it but gut feeling was that they'd give me more problems than solve.

In short, I wouldn't lose any sleep over not having used a tile levelling system. I can't speak for them all but the lash clips can introduce their own problems that you could do without. At the end of the day, best thing is learning to do it properly oldskool and with patience. At least, that's what I discovered.

Aw great thanks for that feel a lot Betta now as before thought that I could have made it so much better with the level system!

Maybe next time they can be used I can then see the difference.

Seems like you have really learnt a lot.

 

[AMC]

H

Hi

I'm new on here and just had my floor tiled with 80x80 porcelin tiles.
I knew it was a hard job and would not get it perfect. After the job had been done I have now heard about the tile levelling spacer system and am now gutted that this could have been used as there's some uneven tiles!

Would it have made a huge difference?

One room had been self levelled first and the others had the small red quarry tiles underneath.

Thanks

hi , I've just started using the porcelanosa spacers on 1000 x 315 wall tiles , they're class and would definitely recommend them

 

[Just Rizzle]

just grouted a bathroom we tiled yesterday 21 mtrs on the walls 6 mtrs on the floor 600x300 tiles half bonded.
ripped out on Tuesday back to the brick, plumber first fixed all in copper with machine bends Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday allday Thursday reboarded the walls in wedi boards 12mm 600 x 2,4 mts using bal rapid and mechanical fixings and tanked out area above bath tiled Friday 21 mtrs on walls and 6 mtrs on the floor. floor screwed and glued with hardy backer board. grouted this morning then plumber fixed all sanitary wear. we were able to do this due to peace of mind using a lech system even though all the walls totally plumb and flat using rectified tiles.
the leveling system gives me piece of mind knowing that once in place they arnt going any were.we use a 500mm12mm notch trowel and back butter the tiles.just me and my son working in perfect harmony and all in tilemaster addy grouted using tilemaster 3000 beige the only thing was we couldn't get the shower screen fixed as was taking over 15mins to drill each hole the tiles were like bell metal 8 holes alone to hang the hanging sink which was over a grand the lady came in from work as we were rapping up at 6 absolutely over the moon and even though we were not 100 percent finished offered to pay us befor we left. my perfect customer

 

[cam_low]

Great work there, I will give the rubi ones a go next time I get some unforgiving planks in !

 

[macten]

No, always suggest a dark grey.
Reason being, when have u ever seen brown joints in a timber floor?
Every timber floor I've seen has dirt between the joints after a while. So I try to mimick that with the grey

I've always used a dark grey too but on my last job (porc wood planks in a hallway) I used Mapei's UC Mud (136) and it really suits it.
Mixes up looking like mapeis chocolate but dries a dark grey with a slight hint of brown (like dirt!) - this colour will be my first choice now if I'm asked what grout I would recommend for these tiles.

 

[Old Mod]

I've always used a dark grey too but on my last job (porc wood planks in a hallway) I used Mapei's UC Mud (136) and it really suits it.
Mixes up looking like mapeis chocolate but dries a dark grey with a slight hint of brown (like dirt!) - this colour will be my first choice now if I'm asked what grout I would recommend for these tiles.

Cheers Nick, I'll have to have a go at that!

 

[AliGage]

I've been on a site where nor only the builder instructed another tiler to use 1mm joints in planks over UFH. But it was grouted in Mapei Maron and looked awful!
I use grey 99% of the time too but have a look @marten as I have a 13sqm plank floor to do in a conservatory coming up soon.

 

[J Sid]

Ardex grout 16 Organic Earth looks good on some of these planks

 

[Old Mod]

Ardex grout 16 Organic Earth looks good on some of these planks

Yeah there's a few planks I wouldn't mind grouting up! Hehe

 

[LM]

massive difference m8 on large format tiles I use themall the time


started to use the genesis system 2yrs ago, I found a factory in china that makes them and imported 200 bags of then clips at a cost o f £2.00 PER BAG we now use them on all most every job we use large format tiles on but like he says you have to have a wet mix. there not for the amature as they don't know how the addy reacts under the tile i still check that the tiles are giving the right coverage by lifting one or two near the end of a mix just in case. pease of mindlast year me and our kid did 80 mtrs using this method in a beauty salon in darlo in 2days must thank phil at ctd for the recommendation as the guy had been droped in it at the last minute due to an over lap of jobs

Hi Ray, any chance you could pass on the link for the supplier in China please. I use the same system and wouldn't be without them on those kind of jobs, brilliant once you know what your doing with them. How many are there in a bag?