Kitchen photos - Tile Advice

[heathmount]

Well I'm most of the way through my kitchen floor and thought I'd stick a couple of photos up (grouting and skirting still to go on). Thanks to everyone on here who's answered my questions over the last couple of months - you've made a novice tiler very happy.

School boy error #1. Mistakenly buying rapid set adhesive. I could only lay about 4 tiles before it started to go off in the bucket and then had to clean everything out and mix up some more. My arm feels like it's going to fall off.

A couple of tiles have a bit if lippage but nothing too bad and overall I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Once I'm done with the floor I've got walls with window reveals and trim to do so no doubt I'll have more questions!

Cheers everyone - great site.

 

[DHTiling]

Thanks for sharing the pics..

Will look canny once complete.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Well Done - I hope you are enjoying it.

 

[White Room]

Nice one mate

 

[diamondtiling]

A very good first effort.

 

[user123]

Great!

 

[hillhead]

Looks good

 

[nybor62]

well done

 

[Mike]

Well I'm most of the way through my kitchen floor and thought I'd stick a couple of photos up (grouting and skirting still to go on). Thanks to everyone on here who's answered my questions over the last couple of months - you've made a novice tiler very happy.
School boy error #1. Mistakenly buying rapid set adhesive. I could only lay about 4 tiles before it started to go off in the bucket and then had to clean everything out and mix up some more. My arm feels like it's going to fall off.
A couple of tiles have a bit if lippage but nothing too bad and overall I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Once I'm done with the floor I've got walls with window reveals and trim to do so no doubt I'll have more questions!
Cheers everyone - great site.

looks good mate but are the kitchen tiles not the same as the hallway tiles? could you not have continued from the hallway as one? not skitting the job just may have looked better if possible to do it that way

 

[david campbell]

looks good mate for a first time,:8:i noticed the above post and if i'm not mistaken it looks like your tiles are actually lining up with tha hallway?am i right or have you set this out or camera trick:smilewinkgrin:
why not do a bit of dry laying then use the rapid set?

 

[Mike]

looks good mate for a first time,:8:i noticed the above post and if i'm not mistaken it looks like your tiles are actually lining up with tha hallway?am i right or have you set this out or camera trick:smilewinkgrin:
why not do a bit of dry laying then use the rapid set?

you'd have to be real good (or lucky) for them to line up from that distance! i dont think anyone would even attempt that ( or need to)

 

[david campbell]

a couple of string lines and it wouldn't be that hard :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Mike]

a couple of string lines and it wouldn't be that hard :smilewinkgrin:

to get accuracy to within a mill or 2 in 4/5 metres would be very hard. i would just continue out from the hall and into the kitchen. piece of cake then and dead accurate

 

[heathmount]

Thanks for the replies guys.

The tiles in the hallway at the back of the picture are actually the old ones that haven't been lifted yet. The bathroom is round there as well and it needs gutting, old tiles lfted, floor levelled out and eventually the same tiles will flow into the whole area. I laid out with that area in mind so when I'm ready to carry on it should all be okay (fingers crossed!)

 

[Mike]

Thanks for the replies guys.

The tiles in the hallway at the back of the picture are actually the old ones that haven't been lifted yet. The bathroom is round there as well and it needs gutting, old tiles lfted, floor levelled out and eventually the same tiles will flow into the whole area. I laid out with that area in mind so when I'm ready to carry on it should all be okay (fingers crossed!)

Nice one, looks good and as i said earlier, i wasn't skitting