Setting out multiple rooms advice

[Leatherface]

Chaps...............

I hear that NASTY phrase again ----- "Dry Lay" :furious3: :joker: :joker: :joker: :joker:

If you set out you main focal area, then square off into each room ( use a Rubi square and set of straight edges ), you can use a staff to determine position of your cuts in every room. Adjust accordingly.
Recently did a 170 sq m Limestone floor - 6 rooms, 3 hallways, 3 cupboards - Every single cut size was adjusted and determined prior to fixing using this method.
NO DRY LAYING - WASTE OF TIME - TOO TIME CONSUMING.

Used Sculuter expansion joints where applicable.

 

[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

Exactly what I do mate, dry lay a row leading ito each room and cuts can be worked out from there.[/QUOte

Dry laying is not necessary.
Once you have set out main room you can square off into each adjoining room and use a tile staff...
A lot of dry laying and wasted time if you have many adjoining rooms.

 

[andy8758]

Dry laying is not necessary.
Once you have set out main room you can square off into each adjoining room and use a tile staff...
A lot of dry laying and wasted time if you have many adjoining rooms.

Interesting view about dry laying being unnecessary - I believe it depends on what you are taught and how you apply it. I was taught to always dry lay a bathroom especially when fitting around toilet/sink pedestal - but that is rarely more than 4 sq m.

If you are about to lay 40 sq m in 4 rooms etc. then I believe dry laying that lot is just too time consuming, and there may not be many fiddly cutouts to worry about. So yes a tile batten marked out is gonna be much quicker for setting out. Either way I still reckon its several hours work setting out that lot.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I'm with Nick on this, dry laying is OK for small areas. Small bathrooms etc. I have said many times a staff, good square, good straight edges, chalk line, etc. you can set out multiple rooms very accurately. I have laid floors in excess of 3,500m2 with multiple rooms, with no probs. Never fix your first tile until you know where your last tile will be.