What's the hardest bit? Page: 2

[m4ubs]

I just did my 1st floor after doing my 1st wall job...i have to say the floor was harder. The funny thing is it took me a while to complete and i was buying tools as i was going, eg knee pads (man i needed them !!!), safety goggles ...learnt A LOT from doing my 1st floor...and I agree the hardest for floor is maintaining a solid bed...especially if the floors aren't straight. Another thing i learnt is to use a decent sized bucket to make your mortar...too small and you'l be making adhesive every 15mins too big and it'l dry up !!!

 

[brian c]

The most rewarding part is the grouting and seing the job finished and then the best bit GETTING YOUR LOLLY.

 

[Varley]

I bloody hate Silicon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just thought i'd mention that.

 

[GazTech]

You mean tilers mate!!!lol get in the chat room you lot i'm all alone in there:cry_smile:

 

[Fekin]

Now Im not talking from much experiance here, as I have only done my 4 day course, then my kitchen and bathroom, but I found floor tiling was by far and away the easier part of tiling than the walls.
There again, the main wall was very un-even in my tiling bay on the course, so there was no way you could get anywhere near a decent finish trowling the adhesive onto the walls, had to butter ever single tile.
My bathroom was the same, and I had paid a plasterer to skim all the walls first.

The wall that ran the length of the bath had to be stripped back to the brick then redone fully, and there were upto 15mm variations in the depth afterwards, really shoddy job, should never have paid for the job if I had noticed at the time.

So, so far I have had a bit of experiance working with very lumpy wonky wavey walls, but when I did the flooring, 12mm ply nailed down gave me a brilliant flat surface to tile on, and only took me a fraction of the time to fully tile and cut round a toilet base.

All in all, the trickiest thing I found was cutting the flipping trim to go round a window frame, lol

 

[pursedog]

i am new to tiling and i find it really difficult to work round baths and uneven surfaces whilst maintaining a level line so that the tiles stay on the right course!
gonna take a while and looking forward to mastering it!:shades_smile:

 

[CJ]

Hardest part about tiling..............Is getting up in the morning.

 

[vince1]

best part of tiling is at the end of the day a nice cold beer hummmmmmmmmmm

 

[DHTiling]

i couldnt agree more............

 

[charlie1]

hi all,

great banter here, ive just finished 12 hrs shift tiling and enjoing a cold sol. The walls i was tiling today where crap, had to back butter quite a few, took a wee while.

working round uneven walls is the hardest bit, and ofcourse getting work.