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This is how I got covered in Celotex dust in the image from Simons post. It wasn’t much fun, nasty stuff that.
This is the less glamorous side to fitting ex large formats.
Trying to squeeze 3.2’s x 1.6’s in to a very small space.
They were cutdown to 2.4m first, and had to go in to a shower that is only 1800 long.
Sounds straight forward enough, until you realise you have to turn a 1.6m slab 90 degrees within a shower only 1200 wide.
Again, seems feasible, until you realise there’s a copper pipe dropping 500m in to shower.
First order of business, turn off water and cut it down to 50mm cos there’s no way you’re putting slab on opposite wall first so that you can spread tile and wall and then moving it to opposite wall to fix.
Second problem, having to slide a 1600 wide piece in to the shower space, which is 1200 wide and rotating it thro 90 degrees as you go in, when there’s a skeiling only 50mm away from the end of the shower wall.
Effectively giving you a piece of slab with 400mm negative swing about its fulcrum point at 1200mm.
Solution, cut a big hole in the skeiling to accommodate it.
Third problem, holding a full width slab with a large 140mm hole for a divertor and a 3 sided niche at one end, then pushing the bottom of it 800mm away from the shower wall at an angle to effectively shorten the slab so that skeiling damage is kept to a minimum.
Fourth problem, supporting a 60kg slab at an angle while lifting it in to place with no room to move and of course not actually breaking it.
And not damaging the mitred slab already in place outside the shower.
Resulting in 3 guys doing 90 mins work, just to get the actual slab in to place on opposite wall and it’s not even fixed in place yet.
And that takes up to an hour for 2 guys.
We’re now at 6.5 hrs, plus almost a day to fabricate with 3 sides niche mitred, large cut out for oversized divertor, one water feed pipe for a hand wand, and a full height mitre of 2.4m on the back edge so it can be wrapped around the end of the shower wall and in to the main room.
And lastly, doing it all over again for the piece on the other side too.
You can see the slab half way round the end of the wall, cutting the skeiling with that in the way was fun. That’s why I got the 6’ 4” painter to do it.
This is the less glamorous side to fitting ex large formats.
Trying to squeeze 3.2’s x 1.6’s in to a very small space.
They were cutdown to 2.4m first, and had to go in to a shower that is only 1800 long.
Sounds straight forward enough, until you realise you have to turn a 1.6m slab 90 degrees within a shower only 1200 wide.
Again, seems feasible, until you realise there’s a copper pipe dropping 500m in to shower.
First order of business, turn off water and cut it down to 50mm cos there’s no way you’re putting slab on opposite wall first so that you can spread tile and wall and then moving it to opposite wall to fix.
Second problem, having to slide a 1600 wide piece in to the shower space, which is 1200 wide and rotating it thro 90 degrees as you go in, when there’s a skeiling only 50mm away from the end of the shower wall.
Effectively giving you a piece of slab with 400mm negative swing about its fulcrum point at 1200mm.
Solution, cut a big hole in the skeiling to accommodate it.
Third problem, holding a full width slab with a large 140mm hole for a divertor and a 3 sided niche at one end, then pushing the bottom of it 800mm away from the shower wall at an angle to effectively shorten the slab so that skeiling damage is kept to a minimum.
Fourth problem, supporting a 60kg slab at an angle while lifting it in to place with no room to move and of course not actually breaking it.
And not damaging the mitred slab already in place outside the shower.
Resulting in 3 guys doing 90 mins work, just to get the actual slab in to place on opposite wall and it’s not even fixed in place yet.
And that takes up to an hour for 2 guys.
We’re now at 6.5 hrs, plus almost a day to fabricate with 3 sides niche mitred, large cut out for oversized divertor, one water feed pipe for a hand wand, and a full height mitre of 2.4m on the back edge so it can be wrapped around the end of the shower wall and in to the main room.
And lastly, doing it all over again for the piece on the other side too.
You can see the slab half way round the end of the wall, cutting the skeiling with that in the way was fun. That’s why I got the 6’ 4” painter to do it.
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