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redrex
Morning all,
Had a call through Google people the other day, it was a bit of a surprise as I had completely forgotten that I had signed up after reading about it on here. Anyways, a local developer was desperately seeking as apparently west lonondon has a tiler drought....he has 2 bathrooms to do (1 proper bathroom & 1 wet room), total area approx 45 sq/m. He has boarded out in aquadec and will be sorting the floors properly-the wet room already has the former in place-has got decoupling membrane etc....I have had a brief look and a chat and actually the walls are billiard flat and it looks like his chippies are pretty clued up and will leave me with some really hassle free surfaces, the guy even asked for my input if I thought things could be done any better/differently. Sounds like a dream doesnt it? However! He has decided to use a job lot of tiles he has left over from another development...they are 10mmx20mm tumbled trav mosaics....and other than a bit of the floor in both rooms, which are having 400x200, wants the mosaics everywhere. Now having got home last night my brain started working....a couple of potential problems I can see.First off, he wants the trav left open and even sealing the trav, I cant help thinking that after a few months of using both rooms, a lot of dead skin, soap and general muck is going to build up in the tiles and pretty soon is going to build up black mould and smell rotten but he does want them open.I am thinking of suggesting that at least in the areas around the shower in the wetroom and on the floor in the bathroom he thinks about either filling the holes or get already filled and honed tiles instead...what do you think? Secondly, even if he does go for the above there will still be 30odd sq/m of mosaics between the two rooms.....am I missing something or am I looking at having to use a grout gun or bag, cos I just cant see how else I'm going to be able to give a clean grout finish otherwise? I can't help thinking that this is also going to take a couple of days itself? If any one has any suggestions, I would be very happy to hear your advice.
Cheers
Had a call through Google people the other day, it was a bit of a surprise as I had completely forgotten that I had signed up after reading about it on here. Anyways, a local developer was desperately seeking as apparently west lonondon has a tiler drought....he has 2 bathrooms to do (1 proper bathroom & 1 wet room), total area approx 45 sq/m. He has boarded out in aquadec and will be sorting the floors properly-the wet room already has the former in place-has got decoupling membrane etc....I have had a brief look and a chat and actually the walls are billiard flat and it looks like his chippies are pretty clued up and will leave me with some really hassle free surfaces, the guy even asked for my input if I thought things could be done any better/differently. Sounds like a dream doesnt it? However! He has decided to use a job lot of tiles he has left over from another development...they are 10mmx20mm tumbled trav mosaics....and other than a bit of the floor in both rooms, which are having 400x200, wants the mosaics everywhere. Now having got home last night my brain started working....a couple of potential problems I can see.First off, he wants the trav left open and even sealing the trav, I cant help thinking that after a few months of using both rooms, a lot of dead skin, soap and general muck is going to build up in the tiles and pretty soon is going to build up black mould and smell rotten but he does want them open.I am thinking of suggesting that at least in the areas around the shower in the wetroom and on the floor in the bathroom he thinks about either filling the holes or get already filled and honed tiles instead...what do you think? Secondly, even if he does go for the above there will still be 30odd sq/m of mosaics between the two rooms.....am I missing something or am I looking at having to use a grout gun or bag, cos I just cant see how else I'm going to be able to give a clean grout finish otherwise? I can't help thinking that this is also going to take a couple of days itself? If any one has any suggestions, I would be very happy to hear your advice.
Cheers