Small outside step

[charlie1]

Dave / Doug... I take your points!

Kilty, I will have a look at your pics

Thanks for the idea Alanm, I do have a small fan heater in the van that I could use.

Afright, I was beginning to wonder what tilers do in the winter there untill you replied! Ive never worked with sand and cement before although i was talking to TF ED about the methods of dot plumbing / levelling! You see, Im not one of the old school fixers on here, only really used cement adhesives. I would like to learn this way though, i will be on youtube this evening!....at least i know i will have a job 12 months of the year ;-)

 

[Diggy]

S&C fixing is a great way to do falls , needs to be screeded and not dotted though. Screed down , sieve on neat cement , trowel lightly with a plasters trowel to bring up moisture this creates a good glue , lay on the tiles ( tap in slighly individually for intial contact ) , lightly brush on dry S&C mix , 16" beating blocks ( with rounded end ) to bed them in , wash off , let dry then grout.

Ah the good old days.

Diggy :0)

 

[White Room]

Could brush some sbr onto the back of the tile then push into the screed....

 

[Diggy]

No need tbh

Diggy

 

[steve187]

in the old days! we used semi dry sharp sand and cement screed, then a cement slurry on top, laid the quarries and then beat with a lump of 4x2, washed off and then sand cement grout a few days later. If a wet screed was used, then exactly as diggy posted above.


I would be with most of the previous posters and leave until the spring, i have just put off a 15 metre outside area due to frosts

 

[afright]

As I have said before theres no need to put it of till spring if covered,have done loads of steps & porches thru the winter months its only when its really bad that I would not fix, at the moment the weather is not that bad if you using sand & cement.