Recent Job

[jonnyc]

this was the twentieth tiling project that I have carried out for Ashley homes.
we moved away from travertine and fixed 900x 600 x 20mm limestone from oman supplied by artisans of devizes.

bathrooms standard porcelain .few niches in there !!!
lovely project , best contractor ever worked for .

 

[White Room]

Any pics ??

 

[White Room]

Bit of a delay there🙂

 

[White Room]

That's top quality....a niches🙄

 

[jonnyc]

unfortunately the niches were set out for original tiloe size chosen . this then changed but effect is ok .

 

[Wishiwasatoptiler]

Thats top quality everything. REAL NICE.

 

[Chalker]

A few niches!
Fantastic work and a lovely house

 

[White Room]

That is some serious work there...

 

[jonnyc]

A few niches!
Fantastic work and a lovely house

how would you cost that ? one niche centred on a shower wall no problem but all those I hadn't a clue. lucky I could charge by the day . how long do you reckon this whole niche wall took to fix and grout , you might need to go back to earlier photos to see full extent of wall tiling of niches

 

[peteablard]

Wow, stunning work there fella

 

[hmtiling]

Top drawer. Yeah, all those would have to be day work!

 

[Chalker]

I'm guessing that wall took about 4 days?

 

[jonnyc]

Top drawer. Yeah, all those would have to be day work!

normally I would never charge by the day as I think this is highly unprofessional .you might lose out or you might win on something never done before but I think the client needs to know what costs they are in for .
it was only in this instance where I know contractor well that I don't want to give a price to cover myself as we have such a good business relationship . this niche thing was a new idea and I will do anything tiling wise within reason and give a price to do so.
how long do you think that would take to do ?

 

[hmtiling]

I'd have priced it@£600. 3 days

 

[Chalker]

Just counted 117 cuts on that wall!!
Without the rear tiling.

 

[hmtiling]

Plus all the holes drilled for the lights!

 

[White Room]

And all the trim work!

 

[hmtiling]

I'm rethinking my price!

 

[Spud]

Lovely stone there Jonny always a pleasure seeing your work ,top project as always

 

[padtheplumber]

Those niches are a work of art!!

 

[p4ulo]

You've got a lamp out on that big niche.
In all seriousness, that Niche wall is astounding. Do you do the cabinetry too needed to build the Niches, or do you fix tile to a finished boxed in wall? It looks amazing, imagine all the crappy bottles of product my g/f could put in all that storage space!

 

[jonnyc]

heres a photo of a tiling job after I took on in Israel. unfortunately the site was not ready , so we took off down the river nile !!!
or I should say up the river nile .big mistake .
the felucca sail boat had no wind to work with and we were marooned !!!!!!!on an island
spent the best part of a week on there in a stand off but ultimately you cant live on an island in the river nile
dancing to madness unless you have a plan .

Lovely stone there Jonny always a pleasure seeing your work ,top project as always

thanks gary . there was a real problem with the stone . the supplier in oman packed it with string spacers and the wax or oil in the string marked the stone .long story short supplier got an idiot who gave it large about what he could do and made it worse. I ended going in and recified myself

 

[jonnyc]

Lovely stone there Jonny always a pleasure seeing your work ,top project as always

the niches were a balls up as they could have been set out to follow joints through.but tile size changed .

 

[J Sid]

As Gary said, always great to see you work Jonny, and that wall takes as long as it takes 🙂

 

[wayne]

Just done some of that limestone from Oman myself. Same size but thicknesses varied from 17 to 23 mm. The stone had string spacers as well but I didn't notice any stains on the stone. The original tiler had started with all the thin stone first though and no decoupling mat. It had cracked all through kitchen and conservatory within a couple of months so we had to rip out lay ditra and get the limestone thinned out at a quarry. Lovely stone though when it's down. Think it comes from ca pietra down south west way

 

[jonnyc]

heres a photo of a tiling job after I took on in Israel. unfortunately the site was not ready , so we took off down the river nile !!!
or I should say up the river nile .big mistake .
the felucca sail boat had no wind to work with and we were marooned !!!!!!!on an island
spent the best part of a week on there in a stand off but ultimately you cant live on an island in the river nile
dancing to madness unless you have a plan .

thanks gary . there was a real problem with the stone . the supplier in oman packed it with string spacers and the wax or oil in the string marked the stone .long story short supplier got an idiot who gave it large about what he could do and made it worse. I ended going in and recified myself

 

[White Room]

Castaway😕

 

[jonnyc]

Just done some of that limestone from Oman myself. Same size but thicknesses varied from 17 to 23 mm. The stone had string spacers as well but I didn't notice any stains on the stone. The original tiler had started with all the thin stone first though and no decoupling mat. It had cracked all through kitchen and conservatory within a couple of months so we had to rip out lay ditra and get the limestone thinned out at a quarry. Lovely stone though when it's down. Think it comes from ca pietra down south west way

interested to hear you have laid limestone from oman with similar string spacers . in principle I thought the spacing with string good idea but I think that when string got pinched the wax element came out and marked stone. I could not remove it with conventional stone cleaners , I wont get in to the palava of getting it off if you have not had problems but I was not concerned that stone varied between 17-23mm at all . it is a blessing for us as so called experienced stone fixers to get stone with that variance as it helps getting over dodgy screeds does it not !
all in all I think this limestone if we are talking about same is a very good material provided it has no honing marks that can only be seen even in high sunlight.

 

[Old Mod]

Stunning job @jonnyc,
Good to see you posting again mate!
But I'll suspect u been a tad busy! 🙄
U good?

 

[jonnyc]

Stunning job @jonnyc,
Good to see you posting again mate!
But I'll suspect u been a tad busy! 🙄
U good?

I'm ok mate

 

[jonnyc]

Castaway😕

Tell you what . We were turned back from the Algerian border for wearing shorts .