How best to Tile a room? - Tile Advice

callatiler said:

Haven't even got to that stage it's been plyed and was wanting to make sure I was happy with everything before went any further!

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.......and are you?

John Benton said:

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Didn't look quite as professional as that!

3_fall said:

.......and are you?

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Yes apart from the dog came in with them all excited and knocked over the cup of water geez!

callatiler said:

Didn't look quite as professional as that!

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I know - did you see the bounce underneath Flatley

I am a bit miffed that MP3 wizard hasn't been back on the conclude this thread and thank us all for the guidance throughout. Even some finished pictures would be nice

Maybe he's not finished yet!

I think the problem is to admit,
they were right, tilers saying:,
not easy work.

All here.

C'mon it's only been 3 years!





I jest!

Hi guys, I've Been trying to login but I've been having problems with the pop up blocker, anyway it's not far from the truth about having not finished, I went on to tile and fit the bathroom, and I only just returned to the floor last Easter weekend, and finally grouted it this weekend, so all tiling has been done on the floor and bathroom. The bathroom was probably tricker than the floor, encountered lots of issues and I was doing it alone, seems like the surface of the wall wasn't even, made it really difficult, so I used 10 bags of slc on it . I had an absolute nightmare trying to get the clips out of wall, I guess I didn't clear the grout lines and it was stuck in adhesive, I had to purchase a small circular saw cutting piece for drill and cut it out/below grout line. I think there were a few different factors that meant I couldn't use conventional tile trim, around window/ alcove, so I've bought some aluminium corners which I intend to fit to cover the shoddy edges. Just finished grouting today, so tomorrow I am planning to have a good clean of floor and wall tiles and take some pics and give back to the community which gave so much to me. Obviously most of my trials and tribulations were on the floor on this thread but it only continued with the walls. I will definitely get some flack for not centering around window and a few end results but the floor and wall is acceptable to me, ofcourse I look and see things and regret this and that but I can be proud that I persevered and have 99% finished just need to put beading round alcoves.

So stayed tuned for pictures tomorrow, would I do it again? No, it's not an exaggeration to say I've been doing this amongst other things for 4 months, what I would do is get a tiler in to do bathroom, not bother with underfloor heating, no mat insulation, no slc, just tile directly on the level surface that I had initially.

So like I said there will be some negativity on some bits but please be kind as I have put blood sweat and tears Into this project.

Speak to you tomorrow, cheers

Haha fair play to you.
But did you say slc on the walls? Omfg!
Yeah I reckon you might of struggled just a bit.
Look forward to tomorrow.

Here it is

You must be happy!
Well done.
John

Happy to be finished! Well almost, got a few tiles to put up next to the door frame when it's fitted, after that just the beading and finishing touches.

I must say it looks very good !
You should be proud of yourself.
Well done...