Terracotta tiles

[Perry]

Enlighten us then pete.. boiled linseed thinned and applied to saturation and buffed off before drying isn't the way then.?. must be a terracotta i have not seen or used then... but saying that a lot of years since i used boiled linseed oil and bri-wax.... modern methods for me nowadays..

mex carillo you couldn't use oil on them they were to porous had to use different sealers on them those were the days lol i didn't use wax IMO it just attracted the dirt and made it hard work to maintain

 

[DHTiling]

Never used them pete, hence asking what you do.. all the cotta i used was Jamie pott's specials ... lol those were not bad to seal... normally 7 coats min.. even the days when we used CTD stock they were fine.. the day's before CTD sold out to Sain gobain..lol..

 

[Mike Mike]

Tomettes is the local name for hand made terracotta tiles.

Yes. And Tourettes is what one develops when laying tiles manufactured in Thailand...

 

[Perry]

i have laid thousands of mtrs of all sorts all i laid for years did nothing else at one time

 

[DHTiling]

How fashions change hey!....

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

i did an orangery a few years ago ,was the last time i did any,with the odd sheet of mosaic terracotta two different depths the field/mosaic,i had to set a ceramic-floor tile under the mosaic to build them up to the correct level ,

 

[Perry]

even tiled quiet a few shop floors with them :yikes: even grouted some before they were sealed

 

[Cafourques]

We grout ours before we seal them - don't like the idea of loosening any whilst crawling around oiling them - so we lay them, grout them, clean them,oil them (many times!), wax them, polish them and THEN we can walk on them. Guess it is hard work but it's worth the effort to get the authentic look. Off for a lie down now!!