Setting out a Victorian Hallway

[Time's Ran Out]

The story so far : Setting out a Victorian Hallway
I answered a couple of posts on this subject in September to an enquiry from a new member.
It transpired that the job was local and I offered to help set out an unusual shaped hallway in a Victorian terraced 'Crescent'.
The customer has had the tiles for over 2 years while redevelopment of the property was undertaken and the job was ready for this interesting challenge!
Having discussed the job with the customer and having been asked to provide a tender for the work, we were asked to undertake the project!

Step 1 - Fix floorboards - fix Hardie Tile backer boards - lay Underfloor Heating.

Step 2 - Lay out alternate design for customer choice.

Step 3 - set out and lay customers own tiles to agreed design

The setting out took over 4 hours with many lines of attack but the difficulty was in having no parallel walls ( being built in a crescent shape the hallway is 600mm wider to the staircase than the front door) However as the customer had many photos /designs of patterns running under the staircase this has helped the eye flow with the tiles IMO.
As this is still a work in progress - I shall update the thread next week.

 

[foxman]

I love victorian tiles mate they look really good, would love to learn how to do this type of tiling, Mick

 

[peckers]

looks very good that john and probably alot of humming and earming and head scratching went on while trying to figure out the best way to lay them?
Cant wait to see the finished pics!!!!

 

[CJ]

I have only ever done the odd repair to these kind of floors. Would love a go at a whole job.

How much of a grout line do you leave........its got to be minimal :dizzy2:

 

[Spud]

its a beauty John

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Gary - Its been a real pleasure to do - the customer is in design and has set ideas on what he would like it to look like - but in discussions he's been open to suggestions (ie I've got my own way so far!)
CJ - the joints are 2mm pegged, fixed with Webber grey fast set flexible over Mapei fibreplan SLC over Thermonet UFH over Harie tile backer boards over T&G boards/chipboard flooring. Grout is Ardurit C2 grey!

The setting out - I took a line through the middle of the Entrance Vestibule (still to show in photos) - through the middle of the top hall area - through the middle of the lower hall area (near the staircase) - stepped it over 300mm so the line went from the front door right through to the back kitchen door. A laser line ensured it was straight.
With a bit of tweaking the area towards the rear kitchen area became straight with the wall and then it was just a case of making sure the half black triangle came up against the white strips on all straight edges.

Thanks for the Questions its easier to explain specifics!

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

hey thanks very much john , its a completely new area of tiling for me to see ,i have appreciated this work ,and shop doorway mosaics for years,mate iv'e even thought of taking pics around the country of shop doorways and compiling a book of pics, keep it up john, your a star m8

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Dave and I had a small 'discussion' about shop doorways a few months ago - but it was all in the best possible taste!
Northallerton is a lovely town to visit for mosaic doorways and I'am sad enough to admit I took the wife there earlier this year for lunch at 'Bettys' only to take photos of most of the shop doorways.
'Bettys' had just undergone a refurb and the entrance has been retiled in a quite remarkable piece of mosaic workmanship.
I have a small stock of tesserae for that rainy day when I've got nothing to do!:lol:
If only my parents had allowed me to do jigsaws!

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

same as john iv'e got about 200 jars of loose colours , the kids used to make some great mosiac pics when they were younger ,iv'e done indervidual murals in pools for peeps as well,but like you when i get my own time ill do somthing for me

 

[Colour Republic]

Starting to look good, I love these Victorian floors I'd love to take on these type of jobs but I don't tile enough so your 4 hours of setting out would take me 4 days on a job like that! Love a challange, maybe one day i'll be up to your speed with this type of work.

Those tiles look very thin, can I ask why you didn't slc to the edges? surely it makes it harder for you to tile? or is it a Northern money saving thing:lol:

And is that Bettys tea rooms (yorkshire tea)?:hurray: I thought that was in Harrogate? or it was when i went:lol: or maybe more than one?

 

[guppy]

This is real craftmanship and skill and illustrates very well why tiling is a stand alone trade where you never stop learning and improving,i would love to produce something like this

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Colour Republic - You are completely right on almost both points!
The Betty's (and shop entrances are in HARROGATE) not where I said (must be an age thing) so I hope I haven't sent Gooner to the wrong place!
The UFH mat in the picture shown was at stage 1 where I overscreed with a rubber float and fast set flexible adhesive to basically stick the mat down. I find this helps at stage 2 when the Mapei fibreplan goes over the top it doesn't lift the mat!
It also means less fibreplan and that saves my northern money!
The tiles are 8mm unglazed porcelain.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

The Hallway is now fully tiled and grouted!

 

[Colour Republic]

Job of the month for me! not least becuase of the setting out. The foyer and the main hall look great. I could set my feeler guage by it

 

[White Room]

What polish is that John