Floor Tiling?

[Benny]

Floor Tiling?

Anyone ever done it (with good results? I know the basics, level, measure to center and baton for straight edges, work small area at a time, let it go off, grout and wipe away with a wet sponge.


But is it really that easy.

My level is, never done it before, but then I'd never really done much until I tried. Plastering turned out easy, elevtrics - doddle, plumbing, harder but still ok...

[DuVeL]

Internet for the win:
http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/laying_floor_tiles.htm
http://www.hometime.com/Howto/projects/ctile/tile_4.htm
http://www.diynot.com/pages/fs/fs004.php
 
We know about your plastering :lmfao:

[Blunt]

I tile floors for a living (amongst other things)

What surface are you tiling onto?

what area/shape floor is it?

do you have to cut around obstacles eg. wc. basin pedastal, pipes etc?

what tiles, how thick, what material are they?

I've only glanced at the top link above, but it does seem to have some good advice, and alot of it.

[suicidal_monkey]

I tile floors for a living (amongst other things)

don't suppose you do (lightly-bespoke) full bathroom fittings including electrics etc amongst those other things?

[Blunt]

don't suppose you do (lightly-bespoke) full bathroom fittings including electrics etc amongst those other things?

I do, but I'm a local builder

[Benny]

Two rooms knocked into one, oversize 600*600 polished porcelain.

floors pretty level, odd bit of the old adhesive. The old tiles were ceramic and have all been removed.

gap between the two rooms, cemented but the rooms are approx 1-2 cm different in height.

Do I need to level the lower room up to the same level?

Yes around objects, but I'll buy a cutter and nibbler for it. External charge is £25 p/yd, which works out at £500+ and if I can do it myself for the material cost it's easier. (given the tiles on top of the labour are another 500+ )

[suicidal_monkey]

I do, but I'm a local builder

i'm practically next door! :whistle:


I think you normally cover the floor surface with some sort of screed (sp?) before laying the main flooring if it's of the heavier-duty kind so perhaps you could do that to level it off? If it's liquid enough when wet you just pour it in and it pretty much flattens itself doesn't it?

[Benny]

i'm practically next door! :whistle:


I think you normally cover the floor surface with some sort of screed (sp?) before laying the main flooring if it's of the heavier-duty kind so perhaps you could do that to level it off? If it's liquid enough when wet you just pour it in and it pretty much flattens itself doesn't it?

I could screed and self level it, but it's two big well used rooms so it adds a pita factor, so am thinking whether I really need to?

[Gandalf]

Well this is freaky. I've just purchased 13m2 of floor tiles to do my bedroom!

I'm also going onto concrete and there is one thing on this site; http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/laying_floor_tiles.htm that it says to do but the tile place said to NOT do is use PVA as a sealant. He mentioned that the tiling adhesive does not stick to well to the PVA and there is a specific bonding agent just for concrete which I got instead.

Anyway, gonna get my friend to assist as I've not done it before and he has so should be interesting

[suicidal_monkey]

I could screed and self level it, but it's two big well used rooms so it adds a pita factor, so am thinking whether I really need to?

I guess the alternative is to have a small step or make one row of tiles slightly ramped, catch out unsuspecting elderly relatives with hip problems etc...:rolleyes:hard to give a proper opinion without seeing it and knowing whether it being un-flat will affect anything you put on top of it etc.