Tile selection...

[zzr-matt]

Very nice. I'm now torn between a brick bond and non brick bond like you have done.

 

[tommyzooom]

Black border is a 600 x 10 mm porcelain tile cut with a water jet

 

[zzr-matt]

Spent the weekend doing missions to the tip and doing a bit of wood work, so next weekend I should be ready to start on the walls...

As you can see below there are a variety of surfaces to tile on, block walls with multifinish plaster which have tile adhesive residue and or emulsion paint on them and the odd bit of plaster board.

Do I need to blow all the paint away of is it just a case of scoring the walls up, priming then getting going?

Currently I it looks like this...

 

[DHTiling]

Look forward to the finished job........

 

[zzr-matt]

Ta dave, any advice on the best way to prep the walls?score,prime then skim with adhesive over the old lumpy bits of adhesive to give a level base?

 

[DHTiling]

Try and remove as much paint as you can....sanding it can provide a good key if the paint is well and truly stuck...not like you are hanging mass amount of weight to it..

You can prime with an acrylic primer and skim the walls with patch up one coat plaster or cement based tile adhesive..just depends how deep you have to patch..

 

[zzr-matt]

I'm back again...

The walls and wood work etc are all done now and I have enough pennies to do the floor...

Originally we were going to use a real wood floor but this clashed with the rest of the kitchen and we also worried about trashing it if the washing machine leaked etc. This leaves a slight issue with there being 20mm from the bottom of the plinth to the current floor which is leveled with an SLC.

Most tiles seem to be around 10mm thick and I'm guessing the adhesive is 5mm ish for a solid bed. So should I just lay more SLC to bring the floor up a bit more?

The plan is to use a black polished porcelain tile on the floor. We found some we like a the local tile depot store who are always willing to partake in a little haggling.

These are the tiles:
SUPER BLACK FLOOR TILE 60X60CM

Obviously these are 600x600 so there will only be 3 or 4 tiles across the width of the kitchen. Do you guys think this will look ok or would we be better off going for something smaller? We have a sample one of these tiles and it seems like fairly good quality but then what do we know, anyone ever used them?

I was going to put them down with grey mapei keraquick and grout with Manhattan ultracolor plus grout on 2mm joints. Sound about right?

:8:

 

[zzr-matt]

Here's a quick pic of how it looked before I started messing about....

 

[zzr-matt]

Anyone got any advice on the best way to bring the floor up by the few mm it needs to move by?

 

[Colour Republic]

Anyone got any advice on the best way to bring the floor up by the few mm it needs to move by?

How many mm are we talking Matt?

Kitchen looks great, those look very similar to the tiles I suggested:hurray: are you happy with them?

 

[zzr-matt]

Really happy with them,thanks for the suggestion!
The floor has to come up by about 5mm assuming a 5mm bed of adhesive?
Had a look at the tiles today they are made by ceramiche ever heard of them? Thanks for your help so far!

 

[faithhealer]

Really happy with them,thanks for the suggestion!
The floor has to come up by about 5mm assuming a 5mm bed of adhesive?
Had a look at the tiles today they are made by ceramiche ever heard of them? Thanks for your help so far!

you can get 6mm backerboard, don't be tempted to use ply

 

[Colour Republic]

As faithhealer says you can get 6mm backer board. 'Hardi' - 'no more ply'

Or if you've got a concrete base already you could kill two birds with one stone and lay some self leveling compound down, some thing like Mapei Fibre Plan. Builds up the 6mm you need and a nice level surface.

JUST BE CAREFUL! When the kitchen was fitted did you allow for this extra 6mm, the addy and tiles? if you didn't you may find your appliances won't go back into their spaces! More than likely you did, but it had to be mentioned

 

[zzr-matt]

The kitchen was fitted on top of the concrete floor which I had levelled with slc with a 20mm gap allowed for the flooring.if the tile is 10mm and the backer board is 6mm it only leaves 4mm for adhesive.is that enough to glue down the board and then the tile on top?