stone cladding

[Tony73]

hope you've been eating your porridge

I don't eat much

 

[Tony73]

Tambo (first blood) :sofahide:

first day, fitted 4 slabs (1000x1000x20) in one bathroom and three (1400x1000x20) in another

 

[Concrete guy]

Nice job, this isn't tiling it's stone masonry.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Great pic's mate !, your a mighty mouse tony lol !!! is this the job you are going to tile the swimming pool on ??

 

[Tony73]

Nice job, this isn't tiling it's stone masonry.

yes it's masonry/fitting. I make templates , drawings, cutting sheets. I do a lot of stone work, and like it a lot

 

[Tony73]

Great pic's mate !, your a mighty mouse tony lol !!! is this the job you are going to tile the swimming pool on ??

No it's not with swimming pool. I have about 3-4 months of work on this site. Swimming pool is just 10 min. away from this one will start in 2-3 weeks).

 

[Freeze]

Hi Tony, are your fabricators producing the tiles out of the same slabs so the veins follow through, or do they just look like individual pieces of stone?

 

[Tony73]

Hi Freeze, the idea is to try to cut as many tiles out of one slab/batch, so veins follow. ideally veins would go same direction on all cut pieces. ( at least I hope, stone suppliers will try to do that)

 

[Freeze]

Looks a real nice job to be doing, crema marfil, and emprador, both nice stones, your do well not to break a few of those mate.

 

[Tony73]

Looks a real nice job to be doing, crema marfil, and emprador, both nice stones, your do well not to break a few of those mate.

yes they do go together , i'll be doing emperador vanity tops there. Crema marfil breaks easy, but I have good record for not breaking stone :lol: so hope not to break any

 

[Freeze]

Out of interest, what's your choice of adhesive mate, looks quite a deep bed on the photos

 

[Tony73]

Out of interest, what's your choice of adhesive mate, looks quite a deep bed on the photos

it's not that deep with 20mm thick slabs you can't do 3mm bed. (stone is 22mm thick on one side and 18-19mm on other) And I usually use Mapei keraquick or webber, some times Ardex

 

[Freeze]

I have done a bit of stone over the years, so know you cant do a 3mm bed, just wondered what adhesive you were using that was all.

 

[Tony73]

I have done a bit of stone over the years, so know you cant do a 3mm bed, just wondered what adhesive you were using that was all.

Understand, you was only asking m8 . I prefer webber for deep bed, but goes off quicker. Keraquick gives bit more time to work

 

[Tony73]

here I found scratch on one slab. I think when guys took sharp edge off with polishing pad, it slipped

 

[jonnyc]

looks like an interesting job tony.
which company are you fxing for

 

[Tony73]

looks like an interesting job tony.
which company are you fxing for

ship shape constraction, I did 95% of tiling , stone work for them over last 10-11 years

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Did you get marble blade jonnyc?

 

[Concrete guy]

View attachment 57217 here I found scratch on one slab. I think when guys took sharp edge off with polishing pad, it slipped

Some silicon carbide pads would buff that out it doesn't look too deep.

 

[Tony73]

Yes it will, but I will let stone suppliers do this

 

[jonnyc]

ship shape constraction, I did 95% of tiling , stone work for them over last 10-11 years

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Did you get marble blade jonnyc?

i gave the montolit blade steff suggested a go and it seems as good as anything else we have in the box so will proceed with that i think,
looked at ship shape site and they look like a good contact for you tony

 

[Tony73]

Yes they are good , jonnyc, pay on time , give me a lot of work. And they getting bigger :hurray:

 

[GMLpaul]

Great work Tony! I look forward to seeing more photos of your work as it progresses...

Paul

 

[Tony73]

Thanks Paul, will post more pictures next week. Will start fun part (mechanically fitting slabs to the wall )

similar way , to this

 

[Tony73]

finished drawing/cutting sheet for two bathrooms. Some stone should be delivered next week

 

[Tony73]

Also fixed wedi boards to the walls in the basement (3 more shower rooms) glued and