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    Setting Out, brick bond style

    Hi Peeps I've got a kitchen splash back to do, in a brick bond style, tiling up to the bottom of the kitchen units and into the kitchen hob hood. I'm going to work out from the centre of the cooker hood. Is there a way of setting out, as to get nice cuts around the kitchen sockets or is it...
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    Setting out multiple rooms advice

    Done plenty of floors, but never done any multiple rooms yet. Can anyone give me some pointers & advice how to go about it. Do I just find a line down the lenghth of hallway then 90 degrees off into each room? Thanks for any help:thumbsup:
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    Freaking out about about setting out

    Hi there, Ive been a member for some time and done the short course thing, but Im finding it hardto absorb the setting out aspect of the job, knowing where to lay the first tile is so important that I dont want to approach a project until Im sure I have this skill in place, do you guys have any...
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    Setting out floor tiles

    Hi i am planning to tile my bathroom floor with a diagonal pattern in the main centre area with a border round the edge square to the wall , is it best practice to tile the diagonal area first then to tile the border or tile the border first and tile up to that with the diagonal pattern hope it...
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    Setting out tiles

    Tile gauge or tile rod Make a gauge rod using an old offcut of 2" x 1" wood or similar, which should be reasonably straight. Lay out several tiles on the floor, spaced as they will be when fixed. Either use plastic spacers, matchsticks or the lugs on the tiles themselves to allow for the grout...
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    setting out large floor help

    hi there, anybody give me advice on setting out a floor. its a kithchen that runs throurgh to a utility room and toilet. do i set out one at a time and tile then start again, or do i try and set out and tile as one.its also to be done in brick pattern.bloody hell i should never have taken this...
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    setting out

    Ihave a disabled friend who was having his bathroom modified to make life a little more bearable,anyway the tiling was done this week and i went in for a nosey.The tiler using 450x300 ceramic tiles left a cut at the bottom (obviously down to his marking out)then started from here tiling around...
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    Setting out, big floor, small tiles

    First floor tiling job coming up next week, its a rectangular floor 22 square mtrs - no obstructions, straightforward rectangle. Tiles are small ones 15cms x 15cms. Question I have is, does the fact that its a big space and I'm using such small tiles change in any way how I should set out...
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    setting out floor tiles diagonally

    hi, does any one know how to set out floor tiles diagonally, easiest way possible, many thanks.
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    Setting out on the diamond

    When doing a floor on the diamond i would half then quarter the room and place the diamond on the four points to give even cuts all around the room ,but what would you do if you had to follow the pattern into other rooms would the setting out process be different.
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    Setting Out

    Hi, Finally got all the old tiles up and rubish up, have just plyed the floor and put a primer down..My question is ,I have 400mx400m tiles to lay on the bathroom floor,Do I start in the centre of the room ,centre of tile and work off of that as this would leave decent size cuts on the...
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    Help with setting out

    Hi When setting out a pattern like this or similar, do you work it out the same way as you would for straight tiles and brick bond or is there a different method. And how to you make a template for something like this, and also make sure you don't end up with small cuts around the doors...
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    Setting out to BS

    Hi all, im thinking about doing a course and have been looking into several. Can anyone tell me which of the 37 courses actually teach setting out to British standards which i understand is the correct way to set out, also i have heard that some courses don't allow you to use adhesive you just...
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    Brick Bond - Setting Out

    Re: Any new tilers stuck at all, with anything? mite have a job doing a full bath room but she want's them putting on like brick work how do you set this out ?
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