Wetroom floor tiles cutting & grout

[Essexsteve]

You haven't cut the envelope cuts in the right place anyway.

To get the falls correctly, you need to cut from the corner of the square drain, not to the centre of the drain plate. This so that the tiles will be flat all around the drain and not have lips.

Don't!!!! I realised that afterwards!! And I knew it had to go the the corners as I've watched videos of it being done. What a div. definitely going to do it again. Envelope to corners, 2-3mm grout lines and using a diamond blade circular saw.

Any other advice?

 

[Qwerty]

Dry lay, mark with pencil/ pen on tape, cut, ensure marks still visible, dry lay again, take a photo, remove all, then tile away for the last time fixing with cement tile adhesive.

Basically a giant jigsaw puzzle.... (zoom in!)

 

[Essexsteve]

Mate that looks awesome. Thank you.

I plan on getting a diamond blade for my circular saw and making a jig up so it's a sort of diy sliding saw tile cutter. Think that'll work?

 

[Spare Tool]

Why not run a groutline through the centre of the drain and get rid of those small cuts on both sides?
Edit..infact if you did that you could use your dry cutter for the envelope cuts and just open them up with a 2mm spacer 🙂

 

[Essexsteve]

I'm sure that is a fantastic idea however I have no idea what you mean. Lol. I'm sorry to take up your time but could you explain it a 'little simpler' for me? Thanks.

What small edges do you mean? And what do you mean by 'run groutline through the centre of the drain'?

 

[Spare Tool]

Bit of a crude sketch...

 

[macten]

You've centred the drain on the vertical and not the horizontal.
So you have a full tile with 2 small cuts top and bottom. If you centred the drain on the horizontal as Andy says then you would only need 2 large cut tiles (which would look better and as Andy says - you can then just open the dry cuts out without messing up the spacing.

 

[Spare Tool]

Cheers Mac 😉 sorry too many tiles on that sketch...

 

[Essexsteve]

You've centred the drain on the vertical and not the horizontal.
So you have a full tile with 2 small cuts top and bottom. If you centred the drain on the horizontal as Andy says then you would only need 2 large cut tiles (which would look better and as Andy says - you can then just open the dry cuts out without messing up the spacing.

I kind of get what you mean. But don't see how I'd only need to cut two full tiles. (I'm sorry I just can't picture it)

Is this anything like what you mean?

I'm still trying to work out another way that you could mean.

 

[Spare Tool]

I kind of get what you mean. But don't see how I'd only need to cut two full tiles. (I'm sorry I just can't picture it)

Is this anything like what you mean?

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I'm still trying to work out another way that you could mean.

Yep you got it, now see how you could cut the envelopes on the slide cutter and just open them up with a two mill spacer without it messing any other spacings up?