wall or floor first?

[Tony73]

Have noticed some tilers do walls first and floor after( floor tile against wall tile). I allways do wall tile on top of floor tile. is there any difference?

 

[charlie1]

Wall first, why tile floor then wait to tile wall?

 

[John Benton]

I always do walls first where possible. What if you damage the floor once complete when fixing to walls?

 

[Tony73]

you even do same way in wet room?

 

[Ian]

Normally do walls first leaving out bottom cut, then do floor and put in last cut on top. I don't like walking around on a newly laid floor, if the walls take 3 days to do, that's 24 hours of unnecessary footfall on adhesive that will not have cured to full strength.


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[doug boardley]

If grout lines are to match up, I do floors first so I can follow the plan view up the walls. This , obviously only works with square tiles.

 

[Tony73]

Normally do walls first leaving out bottom cut, then do floor and put in last cut on top. I don't like walking around on a newly laid floor, if the walls take 3 days to do, that's 24 hours of unnecessary footfall on adhesive that will not have cured to full strength.


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some times i do same way, but allways wall tile sits on top of floor tile (less chance any water get through)

 

[Ian]

some times i do same way, but allways wall tile sits on top of floor tile (less chance any water get through)

Yeah, I like the wall tiles to sit ontop of the floor as well.


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[White Room]

If grout lines are to match up, I do floors first so I can follow the plan view up the walls. This , obviously only works with square tiles.

Same as Doug....

 

[John Benton]

Has anyone who fixes the floor tiles first ever damaged or any other trade been in and damaged prior or during the fixing of wall tiles?

 

[White Room]

Allways cover the floor tiles with a dense carboard on a roll...

 

[doug boardley]

I've never damaged any or known any other trades do so John.

 

[doug boardley]

my turn to say, "same as Mark"

 

[Tony73]

Has anyone who fixes the floor tiles first ever damaged or any other trade been in and damaged prior or during the fixing of wall tiles?

never in 10 years. and i strongly believe that wall tile should sit on floor tile as it's better seal etc. But wanted to hear from pro tilers

 

[John Benton]

never in 10 years. and i strongly believe that wall tile should sit on floor tile as it's better seal etc. But wanted to hear from pro tilers

I ask that because I had a plumber come in and fit a boiler on a kitchen floor I had tiled a while ago. He let brick dust, water, solder etc go all over floor despite reminding him before he arrived to cover the floor. Fortunately they were porcelain and I had sealed the grout, so there was no discolouration or staining. He was supposed to fit the boiler prior to tiling but he didn't turn up until a few days later. :yes:

 

[tfs]

Normally do walls first leaving out bottom cut, then do floor and put in last cut on top. I don't like walking around on a newly laid floor, if the walls take 3 days to do, that's 24 hours of unnecessary footfall on adhesive that will not have cured to full strength.


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I leave bottom cut also when I can.

 

[hutchinsons]

like to leave the bottom course out. looks so much better.

 

[Dan]

I'd go for walls then floors for the sake of keeping the floor clean also, and moreso the floor grout which is usually darker than the normally white wall grout, obviously, which is a pain in the back side to sort out if you get splashes on the floor. Never really bothered too much with the leaving the bottom row of wall tiles out though to be honest. Always siliconed those bits where applicable anyway so tend to just keep them a few mm appart no matter which way around it has been tiled so never really made too much sense to mix another bit of grout for the bottom tiles, or even worse, save the wall grouting until last.

I used to use dust sheets and white wall grout can be squished through them if you don't clock it and stand on it. So always used to aim to tile and grout the walls before setting out the floor.

Obviously that's when you're not using same tiles throughout and need them to all marry up in which case I've even started to tile the walls and the floors kind of at the same time even to make sure they're marrying up well on as many walls as possible (normally end up with one of the walls not running so neatly against the floor so tended to have that the door wall so you couldn't see it when walking in).

Did a stupid job ones using 100x100mm uneven floor tiles in a tiny showeroom / wetroom (had jets in the wall and 'downlighters' in the walls instead of the ceiling). But then on the walls they were like 400 x 200mm matt smooth porcelain. The room wasn't square at all, not a single wall was square with another and to make matters worse there was a false wall in the middle to make the shower area closed off which was at an angle so a sink could fit in the corner of it the other side next to the loo. A really right room for what was in it really. Took about 2 days to set out and we ended up cutting some tile to make the lines marry up but you could never stand in the position to see it as the room was so small, you could only really look at it from the doorway as you walked in, or from the shower. So we made those area's perfect and then managed to cut the rest to fit.

And as it was one of the first tiling jobs I did I was the dedicated cutter! Got soaked for a whole week. Day after day. I didn't even want to stop for food as my clothes were soaked and I'd rather just get on with it.

An architect it was for. Very nice house in the end but everything was a maul in it. All the blokes that worked on it had similar sort of random issues that had to be sorted out by them.

 

[Ajax123]

Allways cover the floor tiles with a dense carboard on a roll...

I would take the cardboard off the roll as it will work better...... Bluuurrrghhh