Lipage you can trip over (see pic)

[Bathfix Bob]

Would you expect the tile to come loose though if you bolstered it?

 

[doug boardley]

maybe the customer likes the rustic and worn in look

lol Liz, I class this as rustic using uncalibrated slate

 

[Perry]

:yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:

seen worse.

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Forgive my ignorance, was that 'uncalibrated' slate in my picture?

Eg/ slate of differing thicknesses?

 

[doug boardley]

Forgive my ignorance, was that 'uncalibrated' slate in my picture?

Eg/ slate of differing thicknesses?

I'd hope it was Bob!!

 

[hillhead]

Would you expect the tile to come loose though if you bolstered it?

Most definetely not Bob,i'v done this before and it works a treat.
It also means you can lay slate rather quick too.
As long as they are stuck properly there will be no probs.

 

[mikethetile]

Not so handy that handyman!! You've gotta know what you're doing working with slate. It looks like it's been finished ok...clean off and sealed. Just a shame he didn't take the time to sort the thickness of tiles before hand

I dont know , he was quite handy , he only lives round the corner

 

[SandyFloor]

I've always bolstered after grouting. Always feel it won't break of more than I want it to.

 

[david campbell]

whats wrong with it?

 

[Bathfix Bob]

mmm.....

Sounds like there's more to laying slate than I thought, is it normal to bolster then, is that how its done?

I'll happily tile a bathroom in ceramic, porcelain and make a very good job of it etc, but I know my limits, (I'm only a plumber), I've yet to even lay Travertine, if I can't lay it without lippage then I don't lay it.

 

[Fred]

I once saw that when tiling in China!!!!

 

[doug boardley]

mmm.....

Sounds like there's more to laying slate than I thought, is it normal to bolster then, is that how its done?

I'll happily tile a bathroom in ceramic, porcelain and make a very good job of it etc, but I know my limits, (I'm only a plumber), I've yet to even lay Travertine, if I can't lay it without lippage then I don't lay it.

with riven uncalibrated slate it's very difficult to get zero lippage Bob, where these lips occur you just take a hammer and sharp bolster and split the lip off, I always have my bolster pointing up to the surface/ace of the tile so it doesn't knap it downwards.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

with riven uncalibrated slate it's very difficult to get zero lippage Bob, where these lips occur you just take a hammer and sharp bolster and split the lip off, I always have my bolster pointing up to the surface/ace of the tile so it doesn't knap it downwards.

Now we are talking Doug, Knapping, flint, slate, who cares? this is how our ancestors worked with stone.the only difference is we knap slate/ stone to enhance our kitchen floors etc, our ancestors knapped flint to eat/ survive, necessity is the mother of invention

 

[devonmark]

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I would have sorted them in their seperate thicknesses before laying, I wouldn't have left steps like that.

You learn something on here every night.

spot on, that is exactly what you should do

 

[tfs]

the thing is though in my experience, slate can easily delaminte into two peices (20mm piece of slate turns into two 10mm pieces of slate)

so bolstering can also give you a little extra work.

best thing in my opinion is to explain to customer that you will try to sort tiles out into sizes etc or grade but, at the end of the day the type of tile they have choses in of varying depth and will leave some lippage! afetr all it is in fact a feature of that specific tile and that why sheera is sold at 13 or 14 quid per square metre.

Many cusomters do actualy like that effect too