Protilers - tiling in Acton, W5

[Protilers]

I had to start another job today!!!!.........this one is in Acton, W5......

The job is 500 x 500 on the floor and 200 x 100 on the walls....brick fashion.......
the last time I was here the plasterer was scratch coating the wall off a scaffold board!.....
and nothing else existed in the room!!!

I presumed that he would flat float the wall (as per my prep request!)....
but he has not, and now.............. I cant!.......so I have a bit of a hill to climb!!!!

never mind!

here is the start!

all the best

Lee

 

[charlie1]

Nice work lee! Your slc looks very tidy, what's your method when going over wires? What slc do you use and how thick?

ps, I usually go over the wires in two goes as I like to use my pin rake

 

[Protilers]

Nice work lee! Your slc looks very tidy, what's your method when going over wires? What slc do you use and how thick?

ps, I usually go over the wires in two goes as I like to use my pin rake

Hi Charlie,.....I use a plastering trowel.....a midget trowel.......a margin trowel and a pin roller at the end!.....the SLC is whatever I need for the situation...Depths etc...

all the best

Lee

 

[White Room]

Acton, have'nt up that way for a number of years.......

 

[m3fitter]

nice prep !! i find the loose wire warm up system better than the mats as thinner, less slc, height issues to doorways, wetdecks etc...

 

[m3fitter]

also for height issues, UFH onto sound primed existing boards, plastic trowel sloppy flex adhesive and lay ditra straight onto it UFH & uncoupling approx 8mm off original substrate

 

[Protilers]

Evening all!!!!!.......


hope you are well!!!!........


just got home from work and decided to upload some piccy's of this job so far.....


I put a level on my screed today and as suspected it is flat.......not level......oh well.....that is a result IMO........ so I started tiling:

The set out is center of door (whole tile) and good size cuts all round.......almost identical around the bath and along the first part of the shower wall (the main focal point!......

job done.........


I started checking the datum for the wall tiling that the builder has set........its good!....but not "perfect" (I will explain with pictures later!).....i am thinking small rip to the floor at the mo..............but,


Tomorrow is another day!


all the best lads


Lee

 

[Protilers]

Evening all.......

Well I guess I should tell you what happened today.........well here is the challenge on this job:

the builder (great guy) has built a datum in which the tiling must be recessed.....can you see the lip?

and he requires whole tiles up against the lip.......(so would I)......problem is the datum is not perfect and the tiles leave a sloping cut to the unlevel but flat floor......

so I decided that on the shortest wall I would tile downwards from the top and then transfer the levels to the other walls......seemed logical to me......

first wall up and I am over the moon......(other than the slither cut to the floor!).......when I transfered the lines across......I put a batten on the wall and tiled in the normal fashion.....and guess what......I came up short of the datum!!!! gravity had got the better of me!!!!!! and the tiles had slipped by a mm here or there and there is no room for errror (at all!).................DOH!......

A little bit of thinking and re measuring......and I think I have sussed it out......major problem is the datum loses 2mm around the room..........and I dont want to trim the upper tiles.....

think I have it sussed now!!!!!

I still have a way to go............cross your fingers for me!!!!!!

all the best

Lee

 

[charlie1]

This is exactly where a dw089 would come in handy!

 

[John Benton]

This is exactly where a dw089 would come in handy!

And give it to the builder!!!!