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[Handyeire]

So if you were tiling a wooden floor in a bathroom you wouldn't Silicon where the floor meets the wall?

Tiling on top of a wooden floor or tiling a wall that meets a wooden floor or tiling a wooden floor effect on a floor?

Where floor tile meets wall tile Ive never used sealant all around the room or even sealed my corners with sealent, always flexible grout.

 

[Spare Tool]

If I mentioned that to customers, they'd run a mile. Us Irish are a funny aul bunch and they would think I'm trying to get more money out of them for more work.

I know what you irish folk are like, been overt channel pleanty of times mate, have very good friends in County Mayo...:smilewinkgrin:
The bigger picture...roughly average price on dot and dabing a bathroom £150, you could save a days labour on total cost of tiling not messing about with trackers n levels and bits of tile and wedges under your first row of tiles, and get your battens on and corners square.
Word spreads...my bathroom is beeeaaauuuutiful Patricia, he spent half a day prepping and hiding all the pipe boxing, I kid ye not he made a silk purse from a Capricons' leg you have to get Handyeire in to do your bathroom...:8:

 

[Spare Tool]

Tiling on top of a wooden floor or tiling a wall that meets a wooden floor or tiling a wooden floor effect on a floor?

Where floor tile meets wall tile Ive never used sealant all around the room or even sealed my corners with sealent, always flexible grout.

....it aint that flexible I'm afraid

 

[Andy Allen]

Tiling on top of a wooden floor or tiling a wall that meets a wooden floor or tiling a wooden floor effect on a floor?

Where floor tile meets wall tile Ive never used sealant all around the room or even sealed my corners with sealent, always flexible grout.

Have you never heard of movement joints?

 

[Handyeire]

....it aint that flexible I'm afraid

Its just something you don't see often over here. Over here you rarely see tanking of showers, I've been on many housing estates where its just tiled straight onto plasterboard. 90% of builders or self builders wanted it tiled straight onto plasterboard and just seal around shower with adhesive even after I suggested tanking walls but hey! Its what the customer wanted. Same as last week I tiled an ensuite, I was asked to tile 2 different size tiles and colours into each other. IMO it just didn't look right but its what customer wanted.

 

[Spare Tool]

Its just something you don't see often over here. Over here you rarely see tanking of showers, I've been on many housing estates where its just tiled straight onto plasterboard. 90% of builders or self builders wanted it tiled straight onto plasterboard and just seal around shower with adhesive even after I suggested tanking walls but hey! Its what the customer wanted. Same as last week I tiled an ensuite, I was asked to tile 2 different size tiles and colours into each other. IMO it just didn't look right but its what customer wanted.

Well if all the builders got that attitude you should have pleanty of work for years to come :smilewinkgrin:

 

[The D]

It's also a far better finish if you leave off bottom cut and tile down onto floor
i was taught in my apprenticeship to mark a line and tile down
not for me anymore bottom cut left off,tile floor then put bottom course in,far better finish

it actually does not make a scrap of difference which way you do it as it should not be grouted in wall or floor grout. do you know where this method of leaving the bottom cut out came from ?

 

[Handyeire]

Well if all the builders got that attitude you should have pleanty of work for years to come :smilewinkgrin:

You wouldn't believe the carry-on went on over here. Thankfully everything is changing with building regs.

 

[Ian]

Ok, here's a bathroom I finished last week, did I do the floor first or the walls first? [emoji2]

 

[Andy Allen]

I would say wall first as you didn't need to line the joints. .....

Do I win a prize if im right. .?

 

[Ian]

I would say wall first as you didn't need to line the joints. .....

Do I win a prize if im right. .?

No prize I'm afraid, unless you want a pair of old socks [emoji2] and yes, walls first but, I don't think it's possible to tell after Silicon.

 

[Andy Allen]

your right you can't tell... it was a guess. .

 

[Time's Ran Out]

it actually does not make a scrap of difference which way you do it as it should not be grouted in wall or floor grout. do you know where this method of leaving the bottom cut out came from ?

Yes - I did it on a job in 1973 and everyone just copied me!

 

[Spare Tool]

No prize I'm afraid, unless you want a pair of old socks [emoji2] and yes, walls first but, I don't think it's possible to tell after Silicon.

Nice job but i bet you didn't start with a raked in cut to the floor Bri :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Try levelling the floor out!