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mike1979
No chalk lines are good the point I'm making is if I start using all these aids would it lower my skill set if that makes sense
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White Room
These aids are there to assist with the tiling but dos'nt make anyone a lesser tradesman, the skill set is still there.
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mike1979
I dunno perhaps it's just me and the way I've been taught so if a young budding apprentice was handed these types of tools etc is that still acceptable I just think it should be more for DIY use
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Stef
Why? If there's a tool there to make the job easier & leave a better finish then why not use it..
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mike1979
I dunno looks like I've lost this one
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Alan M
there are always improvements in tools
are you using one of those rawl plug things you hear old people talk about, you know the thing you hit with a hammer:30:
im sure you have a drill for the job.
do you use a drill bit to make holes or one of those things for tapping out a hole
each to their own I suppose but I like to make life easier for my self
im not sure what the OP is selling but I will look at it when its ready. it might be the next must have
are you using one of those rawl plug things you hear old people talk about, you know the thing you hit with a hammer:30:
im sure you have a drill for the job.
do you use a drill bit to make holes or one of those things for tapping out a hole
each to their own I suppose but I like to make life easier for my self
im not sure what the OP is selling but I will look at it when its ready. it might be the next must have
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White Room
That what I used to use with some fibre rawplugs...
I kind of see where mikes coming from.
I don't use lazers...lash clips....don't even have a wash boy...
Its not that im stuck in my ways its just I dont believe in buying tools just for the sake of it...
If I need a certain tool and im going to use it often then I would buy it...but I wouldn't spend £300 on a lazer to do domestic bathroom when a decent spirit level will do .
Ive tried wash boys but really can't get on with them so went back to a sponge.
Imo its all about the finished job not how many thousands of pounds of kit you have..
I don't use lazers...lash clips....don't even have a wash boy...
Its not that im stuck in my ways its just I dont believe in buying tools just for the sake of it...
If I need a certain tool and im going to use it often then I would buy it...but I wouldn't spend £300 on a lazer to do domestic bathroom when a decent spirit level will do .
Ive tried wash boys but really can't get on with them so went back to a sponge.
Imo its all about the finished job not how many thousands of pounds of kit you have..
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Stef
That's true Andy. I will say about the wash boy though I don't use it for walls (much) but on a floor saves a lot of time & I get a better finish to my grout.
I don't buy tools for the sake of it, as tiles progress so does every other process associated to them.
I buy tools to make life easier.
I don't buy tools for the sake of it, as tiles progress so does every other process associated to them.
I buy tools to make life easier.
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steve-tiler
The Washboy is great for doing floors but I find unless the wall is a big area I just use a sponge.
As for marking tiles the good old pencil works fine
As for marking tiles the good old pencil works fine
Love my washboy , use it for pretty much everything, trick is to make sure you polish before it's dry. I always have 2 polishing rags , one for the first damp polish off then a dry one to finish.
As for the rest of my kit , as pointed out above , they are merely improvements on old technology designed to help one doing the job , but not a replacement of knowledge and skill.
The only electric cutter the guy had who taught me - ( for general use , he did own a large clipper for terrazzo )- was a small portable with a carborundum wheel . We had homemade set squares made from ply , string line , chalk lines etc etc. I never used to use pegs , always worked in chalked line boxes working away from the start point and spread the tiles to meet the edge of the box , you had to do this when using quarries .
Blimey , if it wasn't my turn for the cutter and I was doing quarries , it was out with the toffee hammer to cut L's or round soil pipes in the floor lol.
Diggy :smilewinkgrin:
As for the rest of my kit , as pointed out above , they are merely improvements on old technology designed to help one doing the job , but not a replacement of knowledge and skill.
The only electric cutter the guy had who taught me - ( for general use , he did own a large clipper for terrazzo )- was a small portable with a carborundum wheel . We had homemade set squares made from ply , string line , chalk lines etc etc. I never used to use pegs , always worked in chalked line boxes working away from the start point and spread the tiles to meet the edge of the box , you had to do this when using quarries .
Blimey , if it wasn't my turn for the cutter and I was doing quarries , it was out with the toffee hammer to cut L's or round soil pipes in the floor lol.
Diggy :smilewinkgrin:
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jimthetiler
I notice my wash boy struggles with the modern anti fungal flexi grouts.I still do every thing to avoid
putting my hands in cold water,soggy hands and grout doesnt do it for me,ever tried rolling a ***
under those conditions?.It now takes longer to wash tiles with the wash boy but at least I can have a crafty.
putting my hands in cold water,soggy hands and grout doesnt do it for me,ever tried rolling a ***
under those conditions?.It now takes longer to wash tiles with the wash boy but at least I can have a crafty.
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Diamond Pool Finishers
Well i,am always ready to see new stuff, so fair play to the guy !!, i doubt it will be any good for mosaic ! nothing ever gets invented for mosaic 🙂 so we are still in the roman era 🙂, i love the washboys great tools probable the best invention in tiling in the last 30 years ..........
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jimthetiler
there is a great invention for mosaics,its called a skip.
love the washboys, first time we used them was on Aldi about 20years ago, use them walls & floors and epoxy grouting
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