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Flintstone
Stick around Paul, it will be good for you
More boring pictures of what I’ve been up to lately.
Not many people can do those, forget about rushing slow but sure🙂
That work is on another level, superb. Real Inspirational stuff that Marc. And I totally agree with Lee Mac and Local, this forum is a great resource for learning.
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Kieks
Having to cut in them niche boxes, looks like fun. I want to tile my downstairs toilet in something similar.
What could possibly go wrong ha ha
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Old Mod
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Old Mod
Cheers D, it’s the only place to learn, other resources just don’t cut it, more often than not.
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Kieks
Maybe I’ll go with respotec😀
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Old Mod
It’s all in the prep, get that right, the rest will be easier.
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Kieks
I’ve wanted to do it for a while now, missis keeps nagging me....
Ffs you tile 7 days a week for everyone else, but you can’t tile any of your own bathrooms 😀
The only thing that’s putting me off, is the equipment needed to buy. Although no one is laying these tiles in guernsey.
The only job I’ve heard of over here, a team of lads came over from England.
Maybe I’ll bite the bullet and experiment on my own bathrooms.
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Old Mod
If you were in a position to set yourself up with the right equipment and advertise the life out of it, I’m sure you’d carve yourself a niche market in no time. Might be more difficult sourcing the actual material more so than the equipment.
Choice of adhesive is vitally important too.
Oh and just so you realise you’re not alone, 🙂
I’ve 6 inch whites in my own bathroom, I kid you not! 😛
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Kieks
I kind of see her point 😱
Absolutely awful ha ha!
All jokes a side might give it a go, keep ahead of the competition. The missis preference is the big ones... been with her 15 years, an from day one she told me size didn’t matter!
Now all of a sudden she thinks bigger is better😀
There was a place here called stone tech an they had some Porcel-thin in but not sure what happened with it as the company is not open here anymore.
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Old Mod
I can assure you porcel-thin is still trading, I work very closely with them.
They now stock 2.4 x 1.2’s now too.
Great product.
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Kieks
No I know Porcel-thin is trading, I’ve been looking at their stock. I was referring to stonetech.
They had some in at one point, but they went bust.
How thin Are they?
And what machine do you need to cut the very large tiles?
Btw, do you cut all your tiles in a wet/dry saw, or do you still use the score and snap type?
Cheers
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Old Mod
On average between 4.8 & 6mm thick.
Ideally you need an extra large format cutter available from one of the higher end tool specialists.
I tend to find humping a 3.5m long wet saw around a little inconvenient. 🙂
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Kieks
Which cutting system do you use? I have seen one from montolit, sigma an the Rubi slim.
After last night I was looking at all the prices. 😱
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Old Mod
None of the above haha
That’s not strictly true to be fair, I have the sigma Kera cut, which is a very well made piece of kit, and works very well indeed.
But I’ve also just bought a second system from Raimondi, which is equally as good.
Rubi Slim is a waste of good money, don’t bother.
Montolit Flashline mk 2, is an improvement on the first I’m led to believe by those who use it, I sold mine because I feel it’s more for the occasional user. (Mine was mk1 tho)
So for occasional use, not full time, I can recommend the Flashline.
If you’re working with it day in, day out, like myself, then Sigma or Raimondi is the way to go.
And yes, it’s all a large investment, especially when you start buying frames as well.
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Flintstone
Only worth the investment, in my opinion if your very interested in trying to peruse large format tiling on a regular basis and there is demand in your area.
6 inch whites in mine to lol
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LM
I must be a snob as mine are 8x10 bumpy whites 😀
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Old Mod
Flash git! 😛
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Julian 'Farmer' Bonsall
Paul - I think these are something else - and I think you need a very long flat level table too 🙂
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Old Mod
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Kieks
I don’t think there is much demand for it at the moment, but we always seem a little behind the times haha.
But maybe some good marketing could drum up some interest.
Generally I take it these tiles would be more for the commercial market? Or do you lads have to try log these tiles up three flights of stairs, to tile joe blogs, down the road new ensuite 😱
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Kieks
Thanks for that, I’ll bookmark this for future reference .
How did you first get into these tiles? Sorry for all the questions, just eager to find out as much as possible haha
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Old Mod
Do you mean like this?
Those had to go up these!
All the way up to the loft space.
So I suppose, yes we do lug them up stairs to Joe’s ensuite. 😀 It was 4 flights to be fair. 🙂
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Old Mod
By doing exactly what you’re doing now, and by bullying clients in to changing their choice of material over to ex large formats. 😀
No need to apologise, that’s why the forum exists, without questions, there’d be no need to spend all of our spare waking life consumed by this place. 😛
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Kieks
Haha I could imagine a lot of swearing going on there for sure.
But the more you use it, the better you’ll get at manoeuvring them it tight spaces. Also at the start I could imagine my conversations going a little like this.
No, you don’t want the really big ones up stairs. I’d go for these... half size ones ha
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Flintstone
I think one thing holding them back (x large tiles) is the availability and publicity. In Sheffield there isn’t anywhere showcasing them, except porcelanosa which have 1 I think.
If a shop popped up specialising in it, I’m sure the demand would be there, and I would get tooled up appropriately
If a shop popped up specialising in it, I’m sure the demand would be there, and I would get tooled up appropriately
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Julian 'Farmer' Bonsall
3_Fall. As much as I like the tiles, the loft area you have made, and yes you are so very clever at cutting tiles as big as windows - but, but, what the hell do you eat for breakfast ??
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