Cutting curves eg around the toilet

[minimontolit]

Just wondered who scored and then fingered the tile before nipping or who uses a grinder and if you have dust extraction (if not what do you do when its raining)?
I was thinking around basin etc

 

[Waluigi]

I wouldn’t be doing a job that required an old toilet to be tiled around.
Hand on heart, been in the game 26 years, ten years of that for a Bathroom company. The WC’s were never tiled around. Not much more I can say. We are talking several hundred WC’s.

 

[Just Rizzle]

I wouldn’t be doing a job that required an old toilet to be tiled around.
Hand on heart, been in the game 26 years, ten years of that for a Bathroom company. The WC’s were never tiled around. Not much more I can say. We are talking several hundred WC’s.

you take toilet out its an expensive on cemented down it breaks do you replace it at your cost?

 

[Andy Allen]

Thing is your coming at it from a plumbers point veiw.
I've been tiling for 36 years, and for me cutting round a toilet is easier than me taking it out.

 

[Waluigi]

Bathroom Fitters view point.

I do take your points though. If I went to a Quote and a customer asked me to leave their old cemented down WC in and tile around then I’d tell them it’s not really the line of work I’m in and they should probably get a local Tiler out.

 

[WetSaw]

@pdc grammar mistakes, speaking about poo holders Where are you?

Sitting on the sofa in my lounge..

 

[Dumbo]

Bathroom Fitters view point.

I do take your points though. If I went to a Quote and a customer asked me to leave their old cemented down WC in and tile around then I’d tell them it’s not really the line of work I’m in and they should probably get a local Tiler out.

Maybe when you answer you should stop and look to check which forum you are on . I do find some of your answers worded in such a way as this the only way to do it . They are many ways to some jobs not all of them . Yes the optimum in this instance would be to take the toilet out . But even if it is not stuck to the floor the waste may be going straight in to some tight boxing making it awkward to lift up without redoing the boxing . There are many scenarios when answering questions to be considered .

 

[Waluigi]

Yes there are Many different ways to do a job and I said how I would do it.

I find it completely irrelevant what forum I’m on as to how I would do a job. I always take the toilet out. Like others have said.

It's not always possible for us mere tilers to take the toilet out

I agree, plus if you’re not insured to be removing WC’s then you shouldn’t be touching them. Public liability wouldn’t be paying out of there was a leak.

Just to add, the text you quoted and your response doesn’t tally up. I said that I take your point and that I would suggest for the customer to get a Tiler out.

I see it on a lot of new Bathroom installs too. Not with Tiles I admit but LVT, the fitters will get the entire suite in, including bath panel and then get the LVT fitted. It’s the wrong way to do it IMO.

 

[Dumbo]

Ancient west dean proverb . Bolting horse with blinkers on gets run overv at level crossing .

 

[Waluigi]

Old German proverb. Remove the WC or get shot

 

[Unused Account 1]

I dont cut round toilets ,going to be here a long time,toilet onto tiles ,neat as a fishcake lol

 

[Andy Allen]

I think it's more the point certain tilers (and plumbers) lack the necessary skills to cut awkward shapes.........

 

[Dumbo]

Pro

I think it's more the point certain tilers (and plumbers) lack the necessary skills to cut awkward shapes.........

Probably wrong to tile around curved shower trays as well .

 

[Waluigi]

Personally speaking you’ve got to cut round a tray in the vast majority of instances.

Of course if there is a well reasoned argument to suggest this is wrong then I think we are all duty bound to consider a different way of doing it.