Tiling tips 2015

[Old Mod]

A way of assisting yourself to achieve full coverage of a tile in conjunction with Ray tt's adhesive tips above ⬆️⬆️ is to trowel your area from right to left or left to right (if you're South Paw!)
Making sure all ribs run in one direction. This way after u've back buttered and laid your tile, if you move it forward & backwards or up & down it will break the ribs and spread the adhesive at the same time.
If your ribs run up & down (perpendicular to the tiling) and you move your tile in the same direction as the ribs you are unlikely to achieve full coverage.
So I spose simply put.
Which ever way you prefer to trowel your adhesive, all the ribs must run in the same direction.
Then after u've back buttered and placed your tile, u must move it in the opposite direction to the ribs so they're broken, thus aiding full coverage!
See, got there!

 

[Dan]

Isn't that basically what I said?! lol

I think BS stats twisting motion but doesn't mention size of tile lol

 

[Old Mod]

Isn't that basically what I said?! lol

I think BS stats twisting motion but doesn't mention size of tile lol

I dunno?
Have u read what u said? Hahaha

 

[Dan]

Pmsl alright alright I was on lots of codeine lol

 

[WetSaw]

Does twisting the tile help to spread the dots and dabs around as well?

 

[Old Mod]

Does twisting the tile help to spread the dots and dabs around as well?

Haha

 

[Dan]

I've read it back, and, deleted it lol

You explained it much better than me.

 

[Old Mod]

It was just my inturpritation, I like the ribs to break, u like the air to escape!
That's all.

 

[Dan]

Air to escape and then twist and move away from the adjacent tiles to show the grout joint. So its first laid butted up to both tiles currently fixed.

I'll try find the BS segment on it.

 

[Old Mod]

Yeah agreed, try twisting 1800x900 Porcel-Thin haha

 

[Dan]

I was thinking because the tiles are so huge the air being behind there must be a massive factor in it ended up staying there.

The rib design might come into it too maybe.

What's the difference between a normal thick bed solid bed and one of those magical Rubi trowels?

 

[Old Mod]

What's the difference between a normal thick bed solid bed and one of those magical Rubi trowels?

Magical Rubi Trowels?
Sorry not sure what u mean.

 

[Dan]

Is it Rubi tiger trowel? Has extra ribs in it or something?

(Are we going off topic again lol I might move these posts to a new thread about coverage of adhesive for large tiles)

 

[Old Mod]

Haha don't think so!
Funnily enough the first time I saw a 'Tiger Trowel' was at Ray tt's training day, didn't know they existed! Oooops!
Looked interesting tho, I believe Mark uses them a fair bit.
It has a unique seration, a proper solid bed trowel that I'm used to has a fairly small seration but has two large nibs, one either end, to keep the trowel off the floor effectively. So as u trowel it leaves a solid bed of adhesive behind with a seration on top.

Tiger Trowel


Solid bed trowel


Obviously lots of other trowels are classed as solid bed, but if I was being literal (not like me I know)
that's what would come to mind first!

 

[Dan]

Genesis that's the one!