Help - Tile Advice

[py rookie]

hi there ive seen a hallway floor this morning that the customer needs tiling she wants a boarder around the skriting board and full tiles in the middle,its a L shaped hallway,this is my first floor with a boarder,do i set out full tiles first then boarder tiles later or put the boarder in first around the skiting then full tiles

 

[Flintstone]

By boarder do you mean the same tiles just set out with a full tile in the middle and th same cut on both sides?

 

[py rookie]

Same size tiles yes,it's a L shaped hallway,so I don't put boarder tiles around the skirting first?where is the best pace to start on a hallwa?

 

[Andy Allen]

I set the tiles first then boarder on top of them..

 

[Bill]

Make sure the boarder pays his rent.............

 

[hmtiling]

Pedant's corner

 

[Bill]

Pedant's corner

Not really, just a little bit of education corner. It never hurt anyone and I always use a tad of humour to try and halt the PC brigade.

 

[Flintstone]

Tiled upstand/ skirting? You mean? On the wall ?

 

[py rookie]

No,hallway floor

 

[White Room]

Is the border the same colour as the field tiles ?

 

[py rookie]

Yes and the same size

 

[White Room]

Not really a border, just make sure you have good size cuts.

 

[Andy Allen]

I thought you ment an upstand skirtng tile ?
Where you cut about 5 inches of a tile and use it as a skirting ..

 

[py rookie]

These tiles but with a plain face to go around the edges of the hallway,so I would set out as normal

 

[White Room]

Yes but just make sure your left with a decent cut which balances both sides of the field tiles.