** JOTM January 2012 **

[Dave]

Hi Tilers forums.co.uk members.

Please enter your pics for JOTM January 2012..

The prize for this month is a GOODIE bag from


All entries must either be date stamped on the pics entered or a news paper dated within the JOTM thread shown in one of the pics.

This is to prevent entries that were completed before the JOTM started etc, this is to make it fair for all who enter.

So if you enter pics and they are not as above then your entry will not count..

[blocko]

Looking forward to yet another cracking month...... I should have a wet room to enter

[jonnyc]

. Congratulations to hillhead for JOTY 2011.
heres a job just I finished yesterday.
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200 sq mts original bourgogne claire that I supplied from burgandy france.
350/420/510 x random x 20mm thick.
water fed underfloor heating.
ditra mat used under tile.
grout ardex C2 . 3 part white/2 part limestone/1 part beige c2 with ardex 101 addditive.
3 coats stainstop sealer and lithofin multiseal as surface sealer

[b30 villain]

proper nice johnny

[hillhead]

Very tasty jonny, a great start to the competition with not long left.
Let's get them pics in folks.

[tommyzooom]

V V nice indeed Jonny

[hillhead]

Prep and tiling underway pics too folks if possible is always good to see

[Mike]

quality work there mate

[nybor62]

quality job , will take some licking

[kilty55]

lovely job

[Gall.B]

Nice work Jonny

Really like that tile too.....

[Sir Ramic]

Is this gonna be an easy month.....surely there are more entries to come ?

[blocko]

Is this gonna be an easy month.....surely there are more entries to come ?

Yup....entering a wetroom over next couple of days

[jpservices]

Nice job there jonny looks great

[Rich]

Wow. Do you think the work has dropped of after Xmas? I wish I had an entry to enter now. Come on Geoff, pull your finger out and get your wet room in

Nice floor by the way Jonnyc

[MissTiler]

I couldve entered a bathroom but have no date proof Doh! Always another time.

[Dan]

haha what's going on here then?!?!

Might need to have a re-think this month?

[hillhead]

I can enter but think I have done enough damage lately! Lol.
Diamond set floor in davyG's sisters house,
I done a stone fireplace yesterday and will finish it by weekend,also since yesterday I tiled a small diamond set front entrance hallway, oh and a shower there today too
Come on folks.

[jonnyc]

get it in .
My entry is not that special .
this is the first time i have entered and i dont want to be the only entry.
This job was representitive of what i do , not one of the more intricate works.
Having only recently looked at the JOTM,

i was so impressed by a few of the jotm winners last year and thought i shouI had a very good product/quality job but i am fortunate that
ld be parcipitting

[timeless john]

It's taken as long to upload the pictures as it did to do the job!
As the JOTM is for work completed in that month my first entry for 2012 is an ongoing contract that is finally completed. finally sealed and finally PAID.
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[hillhead]

Well done jonny and John,
It's underway now folks, get them gloves off folks.
Superb work John.

[jonnyc]

sorry hit the wrong button before finishing.
seems Jan has been a bit slack for most inc me, what with delays after xmas.
ive been out of physical action for first time in 25 years owing to knee operation(TILING RELATED)
propped up ,I had a look see at the forum and looked back historically over last few years.
there have been some truly great installations and strangely or not i think that some of the very best have come from tilers without endless years of experience.
tiling in my view is quite a peculiar trade. you do need to learn the basics of symetry and levels and practice makes perfect as they say but there are a blessed few and i do not count myself among those, that have the x factor.
so i say that regardless of years of experience, get those pictures in because you may be alot better than you think.

I started as fired earth first tiler circa 1983 with a mate and have seen the amazing transformation in our industry, and we should be so thankfull to those pioneers that we have such an interesting trade to be part of.
anyone who can remember back to crystal tiles in avocado/maroon etcc will know what i am talking about.

[blocko]

Come on Geoff, pull your finger out and get your wet room in

Nice floor by the way Jonnyc

Alright Rich.......calm down!!!

Yes...Lovely floor jonny ......... and same to timeless john too ..... both cracking entries. Right then.... time to pull my finger out and post mine. See you in an hour

[MissTiler]

Apart from entering a competition its also an opportunity to show everyone what you can do so you cant loose.

[deanotile]

this is my little entry

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[blocko]

Ok, here is my entry for January JOTM.

I started this wet room in a huge run down house in Bournemouth last year. Only just returned this week to finish off as the whole house is a project that the owner is taking on himself and wanted the fitting of last bits and sealing up done at the very end. He got me in to build and fit the wet room. 600 x 600 porcelain (black...but look brown in some photos) and some nice glass mosaics were fitted here. Had to scribe around existing period fireplace which finished it off nicely (customer has yet to finish painting fireplace!)

Apologies for all of the photos (and the quality of the prep ones)..... just wanted to show you each stage

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[hillhead]

Wow guys, taken off well now !!!!
Well done to all, some real tasty work in.

[Gazebo]

Lovely work guys, although my bathrooms are extremely nice they would struggle against the work submitted so I will spare my blushes.

p.s. shame the papers you guys n gals read aren't as classy as the tiling....

[jonnyc]

very nice clean job.
out of interest will there be any glass at all at either end.
i imagine not .
i keep getting clients insisting on this design but even with a 15mm fall from mosaic to drain the water tends to bounce off the body all over the floor outside, and client ends having to have a mat across front.
only way weve had this not happen is when you have enough room for 1500mm from drain to edge of shower wall and its not often you have space for a 3mt walk in shower !!

[blocko]

No, thats it. Yes, water does splash outside of shower area, but clients requests and all that. Great visual impact for resale which is what they desired