Shower room floor - how to spread the tiles?

[Furtek]

That's my first floor to lay so...


IMG_1222 by Furtek, on Flickr

In the far end is toilet, on the left is sink and on the right will be shower glass door.
checker style(black and white)

thanks !

 

[Rich]

Are you asking which trowel to use? Or how to lay out the tiles?

How is the ply fixed down, cant see from the pic.

 

[DHTiling]

Hello and welcome..


And the question is..?...🙂

 

[Rich]

Oh and welcome to the forum

 

[White Room]

Hi and welcome...as above.

 

[Gall.B]

:welcome:

As above also, what is the thickness of ply?

 

[Mike]

nice cutter btw

 

[CJ CERAMICS]

Welcome to the forum. is there a question?

 

[Furtek]

Thanks for respond guys ! I watch this forum for a while 🙂 so i'm not new 🙂
Anyway Hi to everybody !


I'm not worried about floor, because is laid by pro carpenter.
only i'm not sure about how to spread the tiles in the room. I mean from right to left I've got easy, becouse I'll start with whole one tile on the right, and the tile on the left will be cut off around 30/40 mm.
The problem is... Should I start with whole tile on the front and cut tile in the far end of room to size around 150 mm?
Or should I find the center of the room and lay tiles from there ?


Sorry for my language 🙁

 

[Gall.B]

I like to centre things personally Furtek. how square is the room? woul have left the bottom course of wall tiles of before Tiling floor but thats me.

Only asked about the floor as Im guessing its 9mm ply and I cant see what its fixed with from the pic or I cant see an expansion gap around the perimiter.

 

[Rich]

I would center the room out myself. I have never come across a floor that has been properly fixed by a pro carpenter :lol:

 

[White Room]

If you lay from the centre you will have mirrored cuts both sides of the room and probably 2 cuts from one tile...I don't start from a full tile unless the walls are dead square..some chance.

 

[Mike]

i'd say it would work using a full tile against the shower tray as that should be bang on straight, as for front to back, that's personal choice, i'd probably centre it as the back wall and the doorway will probably not be square to the tray

 

[Gall.B]

I usally come a full tile from the threshold and centre across the way sorry for not stating in my previous post.
Just doesnt look right to me if its not a full tile or there abouts from the threshold.

 

[Furtek]

Just click on the picture above, That will move you on the flickr site, Than you can see the picture in the full size 3000x4000px.

9mm ply fixed with 3 inch screws, gap around the perimeter is around 5-10mm, you can see it next to shower tray, the rest is under skirtings.

I have never come across a floor that has been properly fixed by a pro carpenter

So true...

Thank for opinions guys,
So I will centre whole floor to get mirrored cuts both sides of the room like whitebeam said

 

[White Room]

Just click on the picture above, That will move you on the flickr site, Than you can see the picture in the full size 3000x4000px.

9mm ply fixed with 3 inch screws, gap around the perimeter is around 5-10mm, you can see it next to shower tray, the rest is under skirtings.

So true...

Thank for opinions guys,
So I will centre whole floor to get mirrored cuts both sides of the room like whitebeam said

Could be a bit of an overkill...BS states 15mm ply..

 

[Rich]

As above, just be aware that 9mm is not recommended for boarding floors.

 

[barrytiler]

i think the pro carpenter should have known how to board a floor better than to leave a joint in the middle and a crappy piece in the doorway

 

[Gall.B]

:lol: not beating around the bush then Barry?

 

[mjp770]

beware of the 9mm ply gonna be too much flex in the floor. I always use 18mm wbp screwed at 300 centres then cover with 5.5mm wbp screwed at 15mm centres.

 

[Mike]

beware of the 9mm ply gonna be too much flex in the floor. I always use 18mm wbp screwed at 300 centres then cover with 5.5mm wbp screwed at 15mm centres.

that must take days :lol:

 

[mjp770]

I must admit it does take a while lol

 

[DHTiling]

beware of the 9mm ply gonna be too much flex in the floor. I always use 18mm wbp screwed at 300 centres then cover with 5.5mm wbp screwed at 15mm centres.

Really... why..?

 

[Mike]

Really... why..?

15 mm centres!

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[Mike]

Sorry Dave, I misunderstood your post 🙂

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[Rich]

How odd...

 

[hillhead]

It's a saturday night........:lol:

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Just to make it interesting I'd lay them on a covering of waterproof Tile backer board and to have impact in a diamond pattern! :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Furtek]

Diamond pattern looks cool but customer wants to match checker from other bathroom.

Anyway floor is done. I'll show u pictures on monday

 

[Furtek]

Sorry for the delay guys!
Thats the pictures:


IMG_1268 by Furtek, on Flickr


IMG_1274 by Furtek, on Flickr

Thanks so much for advice!

 

[suave]