Tiling Around All 4 Walls and Keeping Things Level - TilersForums.com

[Weebisto]

Hey guys, being relatively new to tiling professionally and having taken on a job that was honestly a step too far too soon, I have been concentrating on floors and single walls and have built up my confidence again. I am gonna practice at home doing four walls in small wc. My question to you seasoned pros is if - as is likely - the four walls are not exactly level and exactly square, although I have developed my technique for getting my starting square point on one wall and working from there, what is the trick for extending that around the other three walls so that all the grout lines meet?
May sound basic but is pretty fundamental. Thanks

 

[Qwerty]

Establish your datum starting point and then either use a level or laser (or both) and work to this to ensure consistent levels. If required, use a batten to tile from.

What did you do previously with regards to levels?

 

[Wes]

Hi weebisto use a couple of different size of levels 4ft,6ft,2ft whichever fits in room transfer level line from one wall continue round room or use laser if you have one. Take a couple of courses round at a time so that your confident that everything's lining up nicely.double check level on tiles every now and again. Hope it goes well keep us posted. Hope this helps.

 

[Wes]

I'm still a bit slow on this think I just mirrored what geoff said.

 

[Chris N]

Check to find the lowest point in the floor before setting battens around the room.

Also, dont take it for granted that your battens although may be 'level' might not be perfectly straight, so after laying your first row, put a level across the top of the tiles to check overall level, but also use as a straight edge to check the tiles meet the straight edge. I've been using mini tile wedges recently to shim and make small adjustments. Over the course of several rows, little discrepancies can cause larger errors.

 

[Flintstone]

Level is level regardless of what shape your walls are in, your tiles must always be level

 

[Dumbo]

I'm going to go a bit @timeless john on you and suggest you go on a tiling course because the sort of questions you are asking on this forum would suggest you don' have the basic fundamentals of tiling and you are trying to pass yourself of as a professional . Sorry to be negative but it's how I see it .

 

[Just Rizzle]

the first thing i always do is set a datum line around the room usually a meter from the lowest point in the floor from this you can work all your levels the second is to centre your walls this will allow u to work out your cuts top bottom left and right. these are lines to measure from not always to start from.
also get good levels and of various sizes

 

[Porcelainwood]

This reminds me of when working in a tile shop many moons ago
When a customer asked our advice about his problem
It seems he just started at one point and just tiled around till he met the starting point
Seemed he did not put a datum around the room so when he got back to the starting point the tiles and border tiles were about 20mm above where he started

 

[Chris N]

This reminds me of when working in a tile shop many moons ago
When a customer asked our advice about his problem
It seems he just started at one point and just tiled around till he met the starting point
Seemed he did not put a datum around the room so when he got back to the starting point the tiles and border tiles were about 20mm above where he started

That's the classic. Seen plenty of pics of similar scenario with picture rails etc