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doug boardley
there seems to have been a bit of disussion lately about the merits (or lack of!) of laying out floor tiles prior to fixing. A few eyebrows,I feel, have been raised my way as I tend to favour dry laying prior to fixing.I'll try and clarify why I prefer to do it this way.
1.customer can visualise finished job better, and make ammendments if they wish, once tiles are stuck down this is,virtually, but not, impossible.
2. I don't like to think that I've had a day getting the metreage in and having the following day doing nothing but cuts, I find this very disheartening.
3. If you're having to use wet saw for cuts ie for stone, slate etc, it gives the tiles more time to dry out prior to fixing.
4. Any deviation in the substrate ie humps, hollows etc will be noticed prior to fixing allowing me space to tip/flatten trowel accordingly, especially crucial when doing brick bond. A substrate may look flat and even, but in my experience they very rarely are.(unless you're lucky enough to get isocrete/power screeded floors all the time)
5. Not having to walk over tiles to get your cuts in later,thus minimising debris that invariably gets into joints prior to grouting.
This is my opinion only and I'm certainly not trying to tell anybody to do it this way, it's just how I prefer to do it.
Hopefully it may lower a few eyebrows! Thanks for taking time to read and please feel free to comment without fear of offending,
Doug
1.customer can visualise finished job better, and make ammendments if they wish, once tiles are stuck down this is,virtually, but not, impossible.
2. I don't like to think that I've had a day getting the metreage in and having the following day doing nothing but cuts, I find this very disheartening.
3. If you're having to use wet saw for cuts ie for stone, slate etc, it gives the tiles more time to dry out prior to fixing.
4. Any deviation in the substrate ie humps, hollows etc will be noticed prior to fixing allowing me space to tip/flatten trowel accordingly, especially crucial when doing brick bond. A substrate may look flat and even, but in my experience they very rarely are.(unless you're lucky enough to get isocrete/power screeded floors all the time)
5. Not having to walk over tiles to get your cuts in later,thus minimising debris that invariably gets into joints prior to grouting.
This is my opinion only and I'm certainly not trying to tell anybody to do it this way, it's just how I prefer to do it.
Hopefully it may lower a few eyebrows! Thanks for taking time to read and please feel free to comment without fear of offending,
Doug
