Tiling Downwards

[Graham Bright]

Just wondered how you guys do this.

Using 10mm marble tiles large format. I set my battons up above the bath and round the room and then tiled all the walls upwards to the ceiling.

Then I have to take the battons off and tile downwards finishing with my cut to the floor.

while I am buttering up the next tile the first one is sliding down the wall. It seems really time consuming to do the battons a tile lower, wait for the addy to go off then move battons down again.

Is there a quicker and easier way to tile downwards with out having to wait or growing extra arms?

 

[jay]

re baton or do cut first then tile up to existing tiles

 

[kilty55]

Just wondered how you guys do this.

Using 10mm marble tiles large format. I set my battons up above the bath and round the room and then tiled all the walls upwards to the ceiling.

Then I have to take the battons off and tile downwards finishing with my cut to the floor.

while I am buttering up the next tile the first one is sliding down the wall. It seems really time consuming to do the battons a tile lower, wait for the addy to go off then move battons down again.

Is there a quicker and easier way to tile downwards with out having to wait or growing extra arms?

set out your room mate,baton either walls off the bathleaving just your cut to the floor to do,once you up to bath height add batons to ajoin the bath and tie in,

 

[White Room]

Do your lower areas first, then fix the batton around the bath from the tiles you have already fixed.

If you see what I mean

 

[mikethetile]

I was going to say that :lol::lol::lol:

you only leave the cut tile to fix after the battons are off

 

[doug boardley]

use rapid set for your first course sitting on the battens, ( although I hardly ever use battens these days)

 

[Graham Bright]

If you set your room up with cuts on top of the bath, What is the best way of calculating where you start tiling on the other walls so I can batton at the bottom. If you know what I mean.

 

[mikethetile]

do you use a gauge rod and a datum line around the room

 

[White Room]

Do you use a datum line around the room and a gauging stick

 

[Graham Bright]

Ahhh, this is hard to explain what I mean. lol

 

[sstilingservice]

I've taped tiles befor now to stop them sliding. Although I tend to use battern stands for the first full tile round the room then I run a spirit level across the top of the bath tile and cut the tiles to the line then tile up from that. Then I remove battern stands tile floor if requiered then pop your bottom cuts in easy peasy

 

[sstilingservice]

Are you tring to go with a full tile off the bath ?

 

[Graham Bright]

Do you use a datum line around the room and a gauging stick

At the moment I get my lines drawn in using an array of spirit levels lol.

I draw my centre lines of the walls and then plan my cuts to the edges. I then look at windows and baths etc and plan my tiles floor to celing. Once I know all that I set my battons up above the bath and tile upwards to ceiling. I do that on all walls then remove battons and start tiling downwards.

I always tile from the centre of the wall to the edges whether that be a centre grout line or centre tile or what ever works best. So....

If I have a basic square room and assuming I am tiling from centre on all walls. If I am looking at the bath wall and its tiled to ceiling and I am moving on to the wall to my left, I have to start at the same height as the bath wall so I can put my battons on correctly.

How would I calculate starting at the bottom ?? I always dred getting to the edge and the joints not meeting which is why I do iot this way

 

[The D]

when you remove the baton fix the next tile and use masking tape to stop it sliding.

 

[Dan]

do you use a gauge rod and a datum line around the room

Do you use a datum line around the room and a gauging stick

Is there a parrot in here? lol