Recent Job

[jonnyc]

heres a photo of a tiling job after I took on in Israel. unfortunately the site was not ready , so we took off down the river nile !!!
or I should say up the river nile .big mistake .
the felucca sail boat had no wind to work with and we were marooned !!!!!!!on an island
spent the best part of a week on there in a stand off but ultimately you cant live on an island in the river nile
dancing to madness unless you have a plan .

thanks gary . there was a real problem with the stone . the supplier in oman packed it with string spacers and the wax or oil in the string marked the stone .long story short supplier got an idiot who gave it large about what he could do and made it worse. I ended going in and recified myself

 

[White Room]

Castaway

 

[jonnyc]

Just done some of that limestone from Oman myself. Same size but thicknesses varied from 17 to 23 mm. The stone had string spacers as well but I didn't notice any stains on the stone. The original tiler had started with all the thin stone first though and no decoupling mat. It had cracked all through kitchen and conservatory within a couple of months so we had to rip out lay ditra and get the limestone thinned out at a quarry. Lovely stone though when it's down. Think it comes from ca pietra down south west way

interested to hear you have laid limestone from oman with similar string spacers . in principle I thought the spacing with string good idea but I think that when string got pinched the wax element came out and marked stone. I could not remove it with conventional stone cleaners , I wont get in to the palava of getting it off if you have not had problems but I was not concerned that stone varied between 17-23mm at all . it is a blessing for us as so called experienced stone fixers to get stone with that variance as it helps getting over dodgy screeds does it not !
all in all I think this limestone if we are talking about same is a very good material provided it has no honing marks that can only be seen even in high sunlight.

 

[Old Mod]

Stunning job @jonnyc,
Good to see you posting again mate!
But I'll suspect u been a tad busy!
U good?

 

[jonnyc]

Stunning job @jonnyc,
Good to see you posting again mate!
But I'll suspect u been a tad busy!
U good?

I'm ok mate

 

[jonnyc]

Castaway

Tell you what . We were turned back from the Algerian border for wearing shorts .

 

[Old Mod]

Tell you what . We were turned back from the Algerian border for wearing shorts .

Now that I believe! Haha
When I worked there and walked thro streets with a tshirt or vest on, I'd stop traffic cos of my tattoos! Haha
They just stared!

 

[jonnyc]

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Well I'm getting muddled up but that photo of four of us is walking through no mans land to border crossing between Algeria and Morocco . Think it was oujda. I remember clearly that we had a problem about Algeria . As tourist /backpackers we could of get in and get a reasonable rTe of exchange . I remember buying dinars in the soul in Cueta

 

[John Benton]

Top notch work again Jonny as ever. Not being critical...... but the left hand turn going up the staircase not sure why the skirting painted white runs round the external corner and the white trim across the riser, not your decision I'm guessing it just stands out too much for me.

But your workmanship really is something to behold, I love looking at your work and the houses you work in. Top man Jonny!!

 

[jonnyc]

Top notch work again Jonny as ever. Not being critical...... but the left hand turn going up the staircase not sure why the skirting painted white runs round the external corner and the white trim across the riser, not your decision I'm guessing it just stands out too much for me.

But your workmanship really is something to behold, I love looking at your work and the houses you work in. Top man Jonny!!

John I'm off to bed but will look at your observations about skirting in morning . Good to bAck of sorts . I've had a real tough yEar

 

[goz]

This work blows my mind, awesome

 

[jonnyc]

Top notch work again Jonny as ever. Not being critical...... but the left hand turn going up the staircase not sure why the skirting painted white runs round the external corner and the white trim across the riser, not your decision I'm guessing it just stands out too much for me.

But your workmanship really is something to behold, I love looking at your work and the houses you work in. Top man Jonny!!

John
the timber doesn't look great across riser does it . I did nt notice what they'd done after we finished stone till you pointed it out. In fact that second stone staircase had to be fudged round with winders as originally set out for timber .

 

[wayne]

Different thicknesses not a problem but the guy who started the job used all the thin ones and then we had to try and patch up with thick tiles and he only had abut 2-3 mm bed of adhesive under them. There were a few with honing marks on them,mainly along the short edge of them for about 4 inches.nice heavy tiles though definitely a 2 man job

 

[John Benton]

John
the timber doesn't look great across riser does it . I did nt notice what they'd done after we finished stone till you pointed it out. In fact that second stone staircase had to be fudged round with winders as originally set out for timber .

I think I would have either replaced the skirting with a stone upstand or painted the skirting and wood across the riser the same colour as the stone to make it 'disappear'

You may lose the symmetry with the r/h/s skirting but I still think it would look better than it standing out like it does now

 

[Italy]

I think I would have either replaced the skirting with a stone upstand or painted the skirting and wood across the riser the same colour as the stone to make it 'disappear'

You may lose the symmetry with the r/h/s skirting but I still think it would look better than it standing out like it does now

It is actually the thing I noticed right away.
Thought in uk is normal.
But no.
in any case great work

 

[jonnyc]

I think I would have either replaced the skirting with a stone upstand or painted the skirting and wood across the riser the same colour as the stone to make it 'disappear'

You may lose the symmetry with the r/h/s skirting but I still think it would look better than it standing out like it does now

On left side it would look right with all stone skirting but then not be in keeping with wood skirting around rest of landing.

 

[jonnyc]

Different thicknesses not a problem but the guy who started the job used all the thin ones and then we had to try and patch up with thick tiles and he only had abut 2-3 mm bed of adhesive under them. There were a few with honing marks on them,mainly along the short edge of them for about 4 inches.nice heavy tiles though definitely a 2 man job

Ok I understand now . Really nice stone . Did yours come from artisans or somewhere else

 

[John Benton]

On left side it would look right with all stone skirting but then not be in keeping with wood skirting around rest of landing.

That was my thought but maybe keep the white skirting on the left but paint the white on the riser, to me it just looks like it spoils the fantastic work you have done and looks like it's just stuck on to fill a gap

 

[John Benton]

Just done some of that limestone from Oman myself. Same size but thicknesses varied from 17 to 23 mm. The stone had string spacers as well but I didn't notice any stains on the stone. The original tiler had started with all the thin stone first though and no decoupling mat. It had cracked all through kitchen and conservatory within a couple of months so we had to rip out lay ditra and get the limestone thinned out at a quarry. Lovely stone though when it's down. Think it comes from ca pietra down south west way

@wayne Just found out this week that Tiles and Mosaics are now supplying Ca Pietra, if you ever need it

 

[jonnyc]

That was my thought but maybe keep the white skirting on the left but paint the white on the riser, to me it just looks like it spoils the fantastic work you have done and looks like it's just stuck on to fill a gap

Why cover the riser at all .that is part of staircase

 

[jonnyc]

@wayne Just found out this week that Tiles and Mosaics are now supplying Ca Pietra, if you ever need it

I'll look it up thanks

 

[John Benton]

Why cover the riser at all .that is part of staircase

Exactly, is it to cover an expansion joint, was the floor laid after the tiles were fixed?

 

[jonnyc]

Yes

 

[John Benton]

That strip across the riser must be to cover the expansion joint

 

[wayne]

Cheers John. It's mainly supplied when we get to the jobs but always handy to know I can get it local. The adhesive they send is called stone essentials I think. 6 hour set time and 90-120 minute pot life. Nice gear to use as well.