Tiling Standards

[Fitwidge]

I want to read though the British standards for tiling.

Do i:
A. Buy them online

B. Buy a tiling book with lots if not all of the information a need to become a professional tiler (recommended books?)

C. I’ve managed to get the bs up on my computer but i cant read on there for too long, hurt ma eyes!
So in other words, push through it on the comp?

Thanks!

 

[Blunt Tool]

I want to read though the British standards for tiling.

Do i:
A. Buy them online

B. Buy a tiling book with lots if not all of the information a need to become a professional tiler (recommended books?)

C. I’ve managed to get the bs up on my computer but i cant read on there for too long, hurt ma eyes!
So in other words, push through it on the comp?

Thanks!

There was a link to how to get it on here a while back

 

[Fitwidge]

There was a link to how to get it on here a while back

I have tried scanning through but can’t find anything, I actually signed upto Newcastle Library, but it’s no longer available there now

I’ll keep scanning!

 

[Blunt Tool]

Tiling Standards : British Standards in Wall and Floor Tiling BS 5385 (Free) - https://www.tilersforums.com/tiles/tiling-standards/

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I have tried scanning through but can’t find anything, I actually signed upto Newcastle Library, but it’s no longer available there now

I’ll keep scanning!

You can blame Mike Ashley for that!

 

[Italy]

You can blame Mike Ashley for that!

who is this cazzo of mike ashley?

 

[Time's Ran Out]

He’s the owner of Newcastle United.
Been their 10 years and is possibly the most disliked owner of any football club in the English Premier League.
A billionaire who buys businesses, strips them of all dignity and assets and bullies those associated into thinking he is helping them.
A real cockney bastard! ( ie born out of wedlock).

 

[Italy]

He’s the owner of Newcastle United.
Been their 10 years and is possibly the most disliked owner of any football club in the English Premier League.
A billionaire who buys businesses, strips them of all dignity and assets and bullies those associated into thinking he is helping them.
A real cockney bastard! ( ie born out of wedlock).

thanks john

 

[Simon Dale]

I have tried scanning through but can’t find anything, I actually signed upto Newcastle Library, but it’s no longer available there now

I’ll keep scanning!

@Paul C. is the man to ask he's an encyclopaedia

 

[One Day]

British standards 12 years ago, when I first started were useful reading.
12 years later, I think they're very outdated and impractical in places.
If the writers really engaged with the industry's leading fixers instead of dictating their own take on best practise, it'd be far more relevant...

Still, if you can, read it and absorb it.

 

[Tile Shop]

If you wanna re-mortgage and buy them, you or you can veiw them for by following this:
British Standards no longer available at Newcastle Library.... But here's another way. - https://www.tilersforums.com/threads/british-standards-no-longer-available-at-newcastle-library-but-heres-another-way.83947/

Newcastle didn't have the funding to keep going. Other libraries have them but going through manchester was by far the easiest way.

 

[Waluigi]

https://bsol.bsigroup.com/Search/Se...inPage=Header+Search+Box&autoSuggestion=false

 

[Fitwidge]

Thanks guys!
Gonna start reading!

 

[Tile Shop]

Morning all. A while back I posted this thread about how to access british standards after Newcastle Library stopped doing them:
British Standards no longer available at Newcastle Library.... But here's another way. - https://www.tilersforums.com/threads/british-standards-no-longer-available-at-newcastle-library-but-heres-another-way.83947/

Thing is, Manchester have them, but they have now blocked access to anyone not associated with their Intellectual Property Centre. So on the hunt for a new way.

New way to do it here: https://www.tilersforums.com/thread...-british-standards-for-free-these-days.89724/

 

[Old Mod]

 

[Simon Pinto]

This is a real pain in the backside!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Simon you could always buy a set!

 

[Tile Shop]

yeah. only £1168. Bargin!

 

[Waluigi]

Just bought two copies, one to keep in the van, the other to keep next to the cloakroom WC

 

[Matt V]

its not what you know but who you know

 

[Italy]

yeah. only £1168. Bargin!

but are not they ashamed?
Here it seems to me costs 90 €, free for members assoposa

 

[Tile Shop]

but are not they ashamed?
Here it seems to me costs 90 €, free for members assoposa

I don't think they care. Can get the half price if you are a member of either BSI or the TTA

 

[Old Mod]

its not what you know but who you know

That appears to be a very pointed remark Matt, would you like to elaborate?

 

[Matt V]

That appears to be a very pointed remark Matt, would you like to elaborate?

That appears to be a very pointed remark Matt, would you like to elaborate?

As part of my Job I deal with the standards every day so have full access

 

[Time's Ran Out]

its not what you know but who you know

And now we all know you!
I always find people from DEVON interesting.

 

[Matt V]

And now we all know you!
I always find people from DEVON interesting.

Not from Devon originally only been here 10 years

 

[Old Mod]

Not from Devon originally only been here 10 years

So Matt.................

 

[Time's Ran Out]

So Matt.......
What is the British Standard recommendation for joint widths for large format (over 3m) sheets of porcelain.

 

[Matt V]

So Matt.......
What is the British Standard recommendation for joint widths for large format (over 3m) sheets of porcelain.

Would be 5mm, however we know that people wont do that for aesthetic reasons

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Read that in the TSJ and totally agree, 5mm joint in seamless work!
So who accepts responsibility?
Client?
Architect?
Interior designer?
And how does it get signed off?

I’am just a Tiler!