rockmonkey
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Good evening everyone.
I've been tiling and working Marble and Granite for seventeen years and I still have lots to learn. Usually after I finish a challenging job someone tells me something that would have been really helpful if said a week before.
I subcontract for a reasonably large Marble Works in the Midlands when they get an unusual site fit and work very closely with the boys programing the CNC's.
Don't get me wrong, I started with a standard bosch grinder and a car polisher with the owner and four farm laborers in 1994 and could carve and polish a corbel set in an hour or so. I loved the therapy of creating and practicing a craft but I know that the only way an Architect, designer or client of some sort will ever get something as awesome as the Victorians created with near slave labor in today's world will be with CNC, not me on a rail saw then standing in wellies for hours with a wet flex.
Sorry to rant straight away.
I wish there were more adventurous clients out there .
I do have a question for the forum regulars if anyone has time to answer. Tis a silly question too.
When I bed marble or tile onto concrete I use sand and cement with additive. Not too fussy about additive as it must be on hand, make the mix creamy, stop slumping and advance the curing time if it is cold. I use white cement on pale limestone's and try to seal Carrara the day before if I get the chance.
Am I committing a tilers Cardinal sin by not paying through the nose for bagged "Tile Adhesive" from one of the well known manufacturers? (BAL, Granfix, Mapie and the rest) I get really bored with all the pretentious reference numbers and silly names that the overpaid sales reps reel off and think so cool.
Is it only really river bed sand, cement and a particular polymer additive for the application intended or am I missing something?
Please advise . Thank you
rockmonkey
I've been tiling and working Marble and Granite for seventeen years and I still have lots to learn. Usually after I finish a challenging job someone tells me something that would have been really helpful if said a week before.
I subcontract for a reasonably large Marble Works in the Midlands when they get an unusual site fit and work very closely with the boys programing the CNC's.
Don't get me wrong, I started with a standard bosch grinder and a car polisher with the owner and four farm laborers in 1994 and could carve and polish a corbel set in an hour or so. I loved the therapy of creating and practicing a craft but I know that the only way an Architect, designer or client of some sort will ever get something as awesome as the Victorians created with near slave labor in today's world will be with CNC, not me on a rail saw then standing in wellies for hours with a wet flex.
Sorry to rant straight away.
I wish there were more adventurous clients out there .
I do have a question for the forum regulars if anyone has time to answer. Tis a silly question too.
When I bed marble or tile onto concrete I use sand and cement with additive. Not too fussy about additive as it must be on hand, make the mix creamy, stop slumping and advance the curing time if it is cold. I use white cement on pale limestone's and try to seal Carrara the day before if I get the chance.
Am I committing a tilers Cardinal sin by not paying through the nose for bagged "Tile Adhesive" from one of the well known manufacturers? (BAL, Granfix, Mapie and the rest) I get really bored with all the pretentious reference numbers and silly names that the overpaid sales reps reel off and think so cool.
Is it only really river bed sand, cement and a particular polymer additive for the application intended or am I missing something?
Please advise . Thank you
rockmonkey
