Mick's Speedy Tiling Tips

[diamondtiles]

Re: Micks... Speedy Tiler Tips..

thanks mick. thats great. look forward to your next set of tips.

wanted to ask how its possible to generate more business...any ideas...

 

[diamondtiles]

Re: Micks... Speedy Tiler Tips..

Mick. Thanks for all your tips so far. keep them coming...

I wanted to ask what if its worth plying a tongue and groove chipboard floor before laying ceramic tiles over it??

Any thoughts??

Michael

 

[Alberta Stone]

Chip board (OSB) should never be tiled over.

As for angle cuts I use a large square to find my marks.
It works, but that Rubi tool looks nice.

 

[cornish_crofter]

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I don't like angle grinders in general and tend to use them when absolutely necessary.

Hence, for tiling I use a Belle Mini Tile

 

[doug boardley]

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Hi Neil,

I too really like the jig tool posted by Sir ramic very handy to have in the tool kit.

Although I don't use one. I use a piece of 20mmx20mm pine moulding with one end cut at a 45 deg angle and place this against the wall acting as the tile edge, then mark with a pencil the other end allowing for a tile spacer, flip it over and mark the other side (Only if angle is greater or in some way differs from 45deg) then place the stick onto tile lining the pencil mark up with the edge of the tile and mark the 45deg cut end the place on cutter and score and snap, should fit sweet.

There are plenty of other ways to scribe tile angles but i find this method quick and inexpensive although I might just get me on of those jigs

I'll try and post a pic of what i'm waffling about as it will be alot easier to visualize.

Glad you are enjoying the posts.

Cheers Mick

I do something similar mick, I place a piece of batten along top edge of full tile, slide it through to wall and mark with pencil,allowing for perimeter and grout joints, swing it through 90 degrees and do same up adjacent length, a lot easier to do than describe tho'!! lol
bonny tiler

 

[MICK the Tiler]

Ok so I haven't given any speedy tiler tips for a while due to being to busy of late,but I was only thinking the other day whilst using my wet saw about a simple modification you might want to do to your bridge saw that will cost you nothing, but with the added bonus of improving the saws cutting ability.

I've done the modification on all my bridge saws for over 20 years so I know it works and I won't go back to the other way again.

A word of warning though this modification is only for overhead wet saws and is not to be done on any other type of saw only tile saws where the saw passes over the tile will be safe enough to modify.

So here goes. Most wet saws will spin in a clockwise direction making the cutting action down into the tile, but what we want to do is reverse the polarity of the motor so that the blade will spin in a counter clockwise rotation or spinning up and away from the tile.

"Why the hell would we want to do that" I hear you all saying. Well I don't know the technical response for the modification, but it works, and your saw will run smoother cut cleaner and the wheel will last longer and so too will the motor. If you have your doubts TRY IT!!! You can always switch it back if you don't like it. This is the beauty of this TIP.


Here's a pick for you to look at of what I mean.

 

[macten]

I'm no ghost buster Mick - How do I reverse the polarity?

 

[MICK the Tiler]

Bear with me................. i'm looking for a pictoral solution as we speak. It's kind of hard to put into words.

 

[beanz]

Talking of slight modifications, i was thinking of welding a bump on my bucket trowels arm (not sure of the technical term lol!) to stop it slipping into the bucket. I know a lot of people lately have mentioned this problem, so thought i'd put it out there.

 

[DHTiling]

MICK!!...Sorry mate but we can not condone that anybody messes with electrical machinery who is not competent to do this.....A machine is designed and built to run a certain way and we don't want people to void their warranties or kill themselves messing with electrics.....

Tilers forums cannot be held responsible if anybody does as mick suggests...

thanks...dave..