Why bother with slc

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I hope this in the right forum, yesterday I spent about 5 hours prepping a kitchen floor with slc. I managed to get it super flat, today I started tiling using a 300x300 un-calibrated split slate, supplied by the customer, sourced from a company who's name begins with W.

This slate varied in thickness from 20mm to 5mm, (in some cases in one tile):yikes:. So after having my mate grade the slate into four groups, very thick, medium thick, thick to thin, and very thin. I managed to lay a fairly lip free floor, but the overall flatness of the finished floor is probably worse than before I laid the slc.

I think Dave will understand where I am coming from, after a PM last night. I just wondered if if anyone else on here has experienced this type of slate, ( gave it a 10mm joint btw). Hey- ho, if tiling was easy everyone would be doing it. Then again are they?:mad2:

 

[DHTiling]

LOL.. I wouldn't have bothered SLC'g it phil.. thick bed addy and away you go, nowt to this tiling lark..:lol:

Told it was top notch slate from Wickes.

 

[doug boardley]

I rarely bother with slc when I'm using uncalibrated stone Phil

 

[Sean fsy]

sounds like the slate you can get from b and q aswell, done one last month and it was the same about 15mm difference.

 

[nybor62]

have had some probs with variations with slate , but not has bad as what you have just laid.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

LOL.. I wouldn't have bothered SLC'g it phil.. thick bed addy and away you go, nowt to this tiling lark..:lol:

Told it was top notch slate from Wickes.[/QUOTE

:lol::lol::lol: I thought people might think it was Woolworths

 

[DHTiling]

As long as it wasn't like bananas then it would just be testing your skills and not your patience..:lol:

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Dave it was like bananas Too:mad2:

 

[SandyFloor]

Did one like that a few years ago. Took twice as long as a ceramic and used about two and half times the addy. Thankfully customer was supplying all materials but think they thought I was nicking it. Nah, slc waste of time in those cases.

 

[DHTiling]

ooops..:lol:

You need a drink then.

 

[hillhead]

I'v seen some marble lately with ridiculous differences too and off square !!
No wonder dot and dabbing is still used in quite a few countries Phil.

 

[Stewart]

Shame to have covered over the perfectly prepped floor. I would have skipped the slc......

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Did one like that a few years ago. Took twice as long as a ceramic and used about two and half times the addy. Thankfully customer was supplying all materials but think they thought I was nicking it. Nah, slc waste of time in those cases.

The big joke here is the kitchen fitter had priced the job, he intended doing the floor himself. He had done the walls already, then he realised they had gone for this very bad slate, so asked me to step in. He had priced the job on a ceramic/ porcelain tile, he wanted me to lay the slate for the same price. WRONG!....................:lol:

 

[Daz]

This thread has cheered me up - NOT!
I'm doing a bathroom floor with the 300 x 300 uncalibrated slate on Thursday :mad2:.

I did kitchen / diner with 60 x 40 slate that was similarly uneven last January, too. I just used a thick bed pourable addy, no point in bothering with slc when using stones that are so badly calibrated.

 

[White Room]

A mate got some off e-bay once, holy moses:yikes::yikes: