Hi all, just wanted to know if i was loosing my mind or if there are other tilers on my wavelength?
I have a customer who has purchased 40m2 of sawn edge travertine in a multisize format. I am supposed to be laying this over underfloor heating i have told her that in this situation joints should really not be under 3mm with natural stone (or ceramics) especially as some of the areas although dukkaboarded are over floorboards.
Now here is where the problems start! the stone is in 4 sizes exact measurements: 600*400 ,400*400, 200*400, 201*201 i have told her that these tiles do not cater for joints so when you lay it out to the pattern the stone company supplied you end up with differing joint size and even butt jointed tiles in some places and 10mm joints in others.It looks worse also because of the sawn edge. The customer can see this and told this to the stone company , they replied that thats how they have always done it never had any problems before and tiles are fine to be layed butt jointed and their reccomended tilers lay them like this all the time.
What should i do ?????
I have a customer who has purchased 40m2 of sawn edge travertine in a multisize format. I am supposed to be laying this over underfloor heating i have told her that in this situation joints should really not be under 3mm with natural stone (or ceramics) especially as some of the areas although dukkaboarded are over floorboards.
Now here is where the problems start! the stone is in 4 sizes exact measurements: 600*400 ,400*400, 200*400, 201*201 i have told her that these tiles do not cater for joints so when you lay it out to the pattern the stone company supplied you end up with differing joint size and even butt jointed tiles in some places and 10mm joints in others.It looks worse also because of the sawn edge. The customer can see this and told this to the stone company , they replied that thats how they have always done it never had any problems before and tiles are fine to be layed butt jointed and their reccomended tilers lay them like this all the time.
What should i do ?????