Old times reality check.

[Jeff the tiler]

All week this week I have either been tiling 200 x 100 tiles brick bond, or 300 x 300 floor tiles. it feels like i have gone back 20 years apart from the adhesive when 8 x 4 and 12 x 12 tiles were so popular. Unfortunately no round edge and I can not believe how hard I have had to work to achieve the same "yardage"!!! oops! sorry i mean metres.

I expect the next job will provencale shaped tiles or Quarries to be bedded into a screed!!!

How lucky we are currently but i am sure it will go full circle and "topaz vein" will be the next must have.

 

[bugs183]

God, Provencale, thats a blast from the past, we used to fix loads of those, they were always bent!
It does feel weird using floor tiles tht will fit into a Rubi TS40!

 

[Andy Allen]

remember these..... got to love them...lol

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remember these..... got to love them...lol

 

[Dougs Third Go]

it makes me laugh when customers say they've got "massive tiles", turns out to be 600 x 300, now 20 years ago they would've been "monstrously massive" lol

 

[bugs183]

Nice tiles Andy, were those Kitchen Harmony???
Remember those horrible Pilkingtons with the computerised ducks and chickens!

 

[Andy Allen]

yes KH1 or kitchen harmony, used to be my best selling kitchen tile..lol

 

[Andy Allen]

we used to call these chicken tiles....

 

[bugs183]

They were everywhere, fixed miles of them.
Cutting round sockets with no machine, just using a scribe and pinchers.
Ah the good old days!

 

[Andy Allen]

They were everywhere, fixed miles of them.
Cutting round sockets with no machine, just using a scribe and pinchers.
Ah the good old days!

i used to use a rod saw, take an hour to do 1 socket...lol......then it would allways break when you got to the last bit.......:mad2:

 

[bugs183]

Or you'd knock the end of the cut off trying to put it behind the toilet pan or sink that was always fixed.
I can't believe no one had the sense for years to tile first then second fix the sanitaryware!!!

 

[Ian]

we used to call these chicken tiles.... View attachment 49611

I've never ever ripped any of these off, or even seen any, must be because I'm only 23 :lol:

 

[Andy Allen]

I've never ever ripped any of these off, or even seen any, must be because I'm only 23 :lol:

wippersnaper....lol.......you wouldn't belive some of the crap we had to put up with bri, only cutter i had was a pencil scribe and a rod saw, and a grout float looked like somthing you cleaned your windows with....lol

 

[Peter]

Was amazing how many metres could have been fixed in a day 20 years ago when it was 6x6 and not large format rectified. I know old tilers who could have fixed and grouted a 20m bathroom in a day.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Was amazing how many metres could have been fixed in a day 20 years ago when it was 6x6 and not large format rectified. I know old tilers who could have fixed and grouted a 20m bathroom in a day.

I was one of them Peter. KH1, TV/ Textile

 

[Peter]

I bet there's not much difference in price per metre now either Phil. An old hand was telling me how tiling was a specialist trade back then and no one worked for themselves, it was all squads. There were only a handful of tilers in the whole of Belfast and now there's about 15 between my house and my suppliers 4 miles away.