How best to Tile a room?

[Andy Allen]

We've moved onto price per meter now chaps ......keep up !!

 

[average]

View attachment 87730 That makes sense thanks, yeah I've been back buttering tiles, I've had to build up adhesive on some tiles and i even put another bag of slc down as the floor was sloping off near bifolds and the adhesive was getting too thick.

IS the green strip used for expansion or just so no sL got on the wall?

 

[mp3wizard]

Both really average

 

[Italy]

how are you?
are you done ?.

 

[mp3wizard]

 

[mp3wizard]

Morning, unfortunately I was suffering from a heavy man flu so it's not progressed as much as I would of hoped, but this weekend I did manage to finish the bathroom floor, I opted to not go for a short cut, but for a full tile and cut into the bathroom, I also had to shave 10mm off the tile going to the wall, it was probably more work than the other method but I believe it flows better inbetween rooms. For me the priority is now tiling the bathroom walls so I can get a bathroom fitted, you can see I was just sizing up the tiles in the background, I don't intend to lay like that, I do have one question.. is it better to leave 1 slither cut on the right handside wall, or is it better to have 2 smaller sliter cuts each side to make it even? I think I know the answer already but just checking, also I am planning to mark a 5mm line around the perimeter of the wall to leave for expanision/sealant, I plan to work out roughly the middle of the wall underneath the window and start from there. Perhaps I should create a separate thread for this?

 

[Andy Allen]

Centre the wall, half the tile on the centre line and have 2 decent cuts each side.

 

[mp3wizard]

at first I thought you meant to keep that tiny cut in the centre, but I realise now you mean to split the cuts over 3 to avoid small slithers, makes sense!

I've read conflicting things about what to do online, some say to have bath fitted first etc, but I am planning to tile around the bath and tile down to it once fitted. Also it's plasterboard, am I ok to prime it using the stuff I used on the floor? it mentions Plaster, but not plasterboard...

 

[Time's Ran Out]

So your not bonding the walls with the floor!

 

[mp3wizard]

sorry? lol

 

[WetSaw]

Following the grout lines through from the floor to the walls.

 

[mp3wizard]

that never even crossed my mind, is that the done thing? thing is the floor grout is white, the wall grout is grey, so I don't think it would look that visually pleasing

 

[Tile Shop]

White floor grout???? Bad idea. Very bad. no matter how much you clean it, it will not stay white. Unless you're planning on using epoxy?

Sorry if you've already said, missed alot of this thread and there are too many pages to trudge back through.... But are you having the same tile on the wall as the floor or are you going for something different? if so what size are they?

 

[Tile Shop]

Sorry, couldn't resist and I'm bored.

Are you doing this:


Or this:

 

[mp3wizard]

if you look on the last page in the middle there is a pic of the wall tiles, there different colour and size, there 600mm by 300mm and in grey.

Well your most probably right about the white grout, seeming I've done everything the hard way so far, touching up a few times a year if required doesn't seem like a big deal.

 

[Tile Shop]

Haha..... I saw that post to...... didn't register the wall tiles, lol.

 

[mp3wizard]

no worries, things that went wrong since last posts were; using diamond blade to cut hole in the tile for radiator, the drill was spinning round all over the place, so turned the tile upside down and drilled from the back, was easier but during the process the tile got so hot that some of the glaze burnt away around the rim, very annoying, also the hole isn't center to the pipe so got the pipe on one side of the hole and a gap around it, it was my bro that measured and did the drill out tut tut.

So plan is to buy some radiator collars I think there called, like chrome ones that go over the pipework, they are bigger and should cover up the problems I've described.

Also I left the levelling clips in the tiles, so some have been in there for 2-3 months, yesterday I got them out, initially I kicked the wedge straight on and had a hard time so I looked online and I see you need to remove them from the side, which I have now done, unfortunately there are some plastic pieces in the grout lines that haven't broken off cleanly, so i'll have to workout a way to remove those and also there is some adhesive stuck to the tiles, these were hidden by the levelling clips, didn't noticed it until I removed them, so yesterday I wrapped up a wet j cloth in 6 folds around a scrapper, after a bit of effort the adhesive came off without any scratches.

My brother has been helping me, we actually have invented a tiling bingo, where if he says certain phrases like "don't worry the grout will sort that out" I shout bingo. I have to make some fun of it otherwise I'd be going tiling crazy, for completeness of this thread I think it's important to explain all the crappy problems as although the actual finish of it is looking acceptable to me, it's certainly been a big challenge to get to this point.

I'd love to just have a few weeks off work and sort it out in one go but unfortunately it's been a few hours Saturday and Sunday if I'm lucky.

 

[Andy Allen]

Stick with it...I'm sure you will get there..

 

[Flintstone]

All in all it's been a good read and will certainly be benificial to others who come on here with similar projects.
Your right to be tiling around the fitted bath, you can prime the plasterboard with that stuff im sure, 3to1, although it might not be totally necessary I always do it.

 

[mp3wizard]

Thanks for the encouragement and kind words, I've centered the wall best I can, the walls are a bit off everywhere, the right handside of the wall by the window is about 11mm bigger than the left, the center is where the window is, so I've marked off the tile size directly beneath it, half on either side of central grout line, leaving cuts either side, am I ok with this kind of approach?

 

[White Room]

You need to centre a full tile not how you've set out as it looks like you will have slivers either side of the reveals.

 

[Flintstone]

I would go central from the window rather than central from the width of the wall.

 

[Flintstone]

What size tiles are they?

 

[mp3wizard]

600mm by 300mm

 

[Spare Tool]

Thanks for the encouragement and kind words, I've centered the wall best I can, the walls are a bit off everywhere, the right handside of the wall by the window is about 11mm bigger than the left, the center is where the window is, so I've marked off the tile size directly beneath it, half on either side of central grout line, leaving cuts either side, am I ok with this kind of approach?

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I can see a closing cut 😉

 

[White Room]

Your fixing portrait then....

 

[hmtiling]

I can see a closing cut 😉

If ever it was needed...

 

[mp3wizard]

That is one big tile I drew whitebeam, the middle line was the line of the middle of the room. Here's roughly how it would look if I laid out. I guess first question would be if the central tile which is full size is 2 cm bigger than the window line on each side, would it look weird, or would every row of tiles in the middle need to be cut to be in line with the window line.

 

[mp3wizard]

I was going to go Landscape.

 

[White Room]

As been stated a closing cut looks a good choice....

 

[Spare Tool]

...and half a tile on header n cill 🙂