rubi batten holder or tiletracker

[Andy Allen]

Bit like if you tile a wall facing you and cut the two side walls into it....yes it looks better to begin with but once siliconed you can't tell the difference..

 

[Spare Tool]

I'm getting the dewalt dw088k in a few weeks. The reason why I'm wanting a rubi or tile tracker is that most of the work I'm getting now is in old Irish houses or cottages made with stone and plastered over and when I bang a masonry nail in, its bouncing off or when I do eventually get them in, most times it ain't in properly. Its a pain in the hole most times. A y new houses I do, masonry nails go in not a problem and I get a true level all around the room with my battens but different story altogether in these older houses. 🙁

Would it not be easier to spend half a day dot and dabbing plasterboard around the room and making them old walls nice and flat and square and easier to tile on, marking up easier, screwing battens into plaster board easier, tiling easier, finish job spot on, just a thought...

 

[Handyeire]

Would it not be easier to spend half a day dot and dabbing plasterboard around the room and making them old walls nice and flat and square and easier to tile on, marking up easier, screwing battens into plaster board easier, tiling easier, finish job spot on, just a thought...

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.

 

[Handyeire]

That's assuming all tilers do Silicon
I know loads who dont

I don't and have never had any problems not siliconing. Ive also never seen it done here in Ireland on any bigger jobs I've been on.

 

[Andy Allen]

I don't and have never had any problems not siliconing. Ive also never seen it done here in Ireland on any bigger jobs I've been on.

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

 

[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.