Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the back

[Tony73]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

chek if they all out of square, or just few. Or even if most are out, you could recut. would not lay them as it is

 

[Tony73]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

can we see some pictures?

 

[White Room]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Probably why they were skipped....

 

[c james]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

OK image here i hope,

I just did some mosiac tiles from fired earth a real headache as no lines ever matched, just checked with pregnant gf with her parents away all ok.

So at the end of the day another question is can skill make a crap tile look good to the friends visiting......?



Thanks

CJ

 

[c james]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Dammit I dont think pound land would have sold these lol

 

[Tony73]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Just watch diamond jubilee concert on tv tonight :8:, relax. tommorow will be more members here to advice . And check few more tiles if they same

 

[White Room]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Not somethink I've tried but if you do try and make them square a bridge cutter would be required....

 

[c james]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Has anyone ever done the garden random paving slab with squares, rectangles and small square in a tile design before?


For walls


Cheers
CJ

 

[c james]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Thanks WB

CJ

 

[c james]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Thanks Deno

CJ

 

[Ian]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Has anyone ever done the garden random paving slab with squares, rectangles and small square in a tile design before?

Cheers
CJ

Yeah, it's called opus/French/modular pattern, there are a few names. What size are the tiles (or what size are they meant to be!) if you set a wet saw up, recutting them to a uniform size won't take as long as you think.

 

[c james]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Ok think if I do a brick design then I can trim the edges and loose the verticals as long as the horizontals line up.

Think quickest easy option as my house not customers, but want to sell it eventually, know what i mean Harry.....

Point of view appreciated

CJ

 

[c james]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Thanks Bri,

I have 600 x400 and some 600 x 600

Cheers
CJ

 

[c james]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

I have a rubi 250 lps and 2 x nd 200 with mono DNA blades and flex circular wet with a great fence.

Just more worried about setting out as never done before to creat the frenchie or the brazilian.....

Cheers

CJ

 

[Dan]

Re: Rescued limestone from the skip, advice on whether to seal the bac

Trying to make them square will be a maul IMO. Can't you just buy some cheap 6x6 and stick a cheap border in there to liven it up?

You'll need to find which edges are not square for each tile as some may be a parallelogram. Which means measuring the tile from corner to corner diagonally to find the shorter measurement. Then you're cutting each tile down to it's smaller size. Which might be a different size for each tile as some might be more out than others.

If you set up just say 590 on a table saw and cut both ways, you may still end up with a parallelogram, just smaller. So you'd still have the problem just now with smaller tiles.

Try measuring a few from corner to corner diagonally and see if they do seem to be shaped like in the picture.