tile spacers and floor tiles

[afright]

When there was just sand & cement fixing to walls the tilers would use a roll of string weaving it along the horizontal joints,at the end of the day it was pulled out and left in water for the next day.

 

[Andy Allen]

spacers for me! they dont slow things down at all!

what if your using cheap nasty tiles that vary in size, how do you keep the tiles from running out?

 

[Diggy]

what if your using cheap nasty tiles that vary in size, how do you keep the tiles from running out?

You need to use measurements and stick to them. So you have your straightedge on paralell line and then your square line. Say you are using 200 x 200 then take measurement of 5 + joints and use this to move away from the square line . If you want to and you are doind a largish room then create chalkline boxes by paralelling in each direction from the square line. Then just keep every 5 tiles inside that box and adjust the tile joints to fit . This comes in handy when you fit so called 'modular' tiles , in tilers speak they mean SIZEY :0).

This is how I used to do large quarry tile floors years ago ,in the days of 300m²/400m² tiled floors.

Hope that made sense.

Diggy

 

[Sean Kelly]

I use spacers (and I take them out when the adhesive is dry. You never know who might walk on the floor after you leave for the night!

 

[Two-Trowels]

I tend to use spacers, don't leave them in though.

 

[White Room]

Spacers........

 

[kilty55]

mostly use spacers only a few occasions i have used eye on floor

 

[Rookery]

One old tiler I worked with always used spaghetti as spacers

Yes but to be fair, he used alphabetti spaghetti and used the X's and T's

 

[John Benton]

Yes but to be fair, he used alphabetti spaghetti and used the X's and T's

He used to use plastic be that was before he was pasta his best

 

[Andy Allen]

You need to use measurements and stick to them. So you have your straightedge on paralell line and then your square line. Say you are using 200 x 200 then take measurement of 5 + joints and use this to move away from the square line . If you want to and you are doind a largish room then create chalkline boxes by paralelling in each direction from the square line. Then just keep every 5 tiles inside that box and adjust the tile joints to fit . This comes in handy when you fit so called 'modular' tiles , in tilers speak they mean SIZEY :0).

This is how I used to do large quarry tile floors years ago ,in the days of 300m²/400m² tiled floors.

Hope that made sense.

Diggy

thanks for that... ive been doing it that way for 30 years.....:lol:

ive never used spacers for floors just stright edges and chaulk lines, i was just trying finding out off those that use spacers all the time how they stop the tiles from running out when using cheap rubbish that vary in size....