Tiling in your own house

[Peter]

Following on from Brian and Tony's posts, has anyone done any tasty tiling in their own houses?

Only done my hall and bathroom, both fairly basic but will get pictures of them soon. Half the bathroom was done with stuff I had in the garage :lol:. Plan on selling up this summer but for the next house will definately go for something a little special. Maybe a nice stone bathroom.

Finishing is the hardest part to do, tiled the bathroom about a month ago and still need to do the window reveal. :lol:

 

[DHTiling]

Doing work at home.. lol.. Nah... when do i have time for that.. lol..



But yes the bathroom is due to be done soon... but been saying that for a while now... or is that years..:lol:

 

[Peter]

Hard to motivate yourself, if there were no wives I don't think any of us would have even started anything. :lol:


450x450 polished porcelain with porcelain mosaic feature and brown grout.



Main wall tiles were £3 a box clearance B&Q specials. Sizing was terrible but had some 200x100 travertine in the garage and the 600x300 leftover from a job. Lost the will to live during it. In hindsight, it doesn't really go that well but will tidy it up a bit. 4x4 bumpy white were on the walls before that. :lol:

 

[Gazzer]

My kitchen and bathroom is due to have a refurb. Bathroom is fine actually but i would like to redo.
The kitchen needs a full refit, its only small so shouldnt take too long but apart from making best use of what little space I have , I need to choose tiles .......Nightmare !

 

[Aston]

our house is always the last to get anything done. it contributes to 30% of the wifes nagging ;0)

 

[bugs183]

Both dad and i are tilers,they had a pipe go in the bathroom in their house.
It took dad 5 years to tile and me another 3 years later to grout it!

 

[foggy34]

just finished my kitchen refurb as i was getting mega earache about it coming upto the first anniversary since i started! full skim new kitchen,spots wall and floor tiled breakfast bar,coving etc i thought i d done well --not according to the misses

 

[John Benton]

I have booked off 2 weeks in July. Where you going? You may ask. Well, I'll be up and downstairs at our house doing


The bathroom - no expense spared, apparently - not checked the account yet.

960x480 semi-polished Italian porcelain, walls and floor. I'm actually looking forward to doing it as I'm always going on to the missus how nice the bathroom is I've just done

 

[mz30]

done the kitchen about 3 years ago in porcelanosa eidos amber still not siliconed round the worktops,missus give up asking and am redoing it in a couple of weeks better make sure i finish it properly this time

 

[Topshop]

When I was building my house I needed to put up my steel building garage so I could make my cabinets for the house so my wife decided to set the tiles in the middle of one of our bathroom floors - only tiles she didn't need to cut. Even though I marked out a line to follow in the center she laid the tiles 1/2" out of square over 9 feet and the stone tiles were not guaged to a consistant thickness. After I set the edge tiles it took me 2 days to grind the lippage and re-hone with my Cimex machine..

The moral of the story is don't let the wife's impatience make more work for you later.

 

[Andy Allen]

took me so long to start our bathroom my wife booked it in my dairy, as i was flicking through it to see what i had on, the next avalible day she wrote 'tile our bathroom you lazy git'...rrr:

 

[Daveshadowman]

My ex wife got that sick of waiting for me to tile the kitchen she phone a tiler out off the yellow pages and got him to do it

 

[The D]

My ex wife got that sick of waiting for me to tile the kitchen she phone a tiler out off the yellow pages and got him to do it

now that is bad!!!

 

[Pebbs]

I did the bathroom, took me 4 months and now hate it, so its got to be ripped out. I can cope with chaos on sites, it freaks me out when I have tiles and adhesive around the house.

Lynn

 

[MTiler]

Ripped out the old tiles in my bathroom, then about 2 years later I finally got around to retiling the shower area as I was sick of the plastic sheeting protecting the walls lol. I was given some Bisazza mosaics which gave me an incentive but its still not all done. I'd always wanted to curve the corner and fit a little shelf.


missyT