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Discuss My first envelope tomorrow,any advice? in the Tanking & Wetrooms at TilersForums; Not a brown envelope,but a wet room floor to be tiled with 60x60 porcelain.All the wet room floors I have done before have been done with the tiles water-jet cut ...
          
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    Not a brown envelope,but a wet room floor to be tiled with 60x60 porcelain.All the wet room floors I have done before have been done with the tiles water-jet cut into 2" squares and put on a mesh.
    Plan is to tile the floor first to allow a bit of adjustment?
    Any thing else to watch out for?
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    Will also be interested in this .....

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    Harry, I'll let you know after I have a bash tomorrow

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    good luck tom, take a pic and post!!

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    Default Re: My first envelope tomorrow,any advice?

    been a long time since I done one in large tiles tend to use mosaic.
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    Default Re: My first envelope tomorrow,any advice?

    dry lay them, mark the falls out on the tiles then wet cut them, this produces a ready made grout line whereas a dry cut won't

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    i have one to do next week with large tiles,so good luck and get the photos uploaded asap...
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    Ok, just got this floor finished,I must say it is a very time consuming process. The shower area took all morning, the rest of the bathroom in the afternoon(Luckily the TV!! wasn't installed,grouting will wait until the walls are done,
    Thanks for the advice Faithhealer, I did as you suggested and dry-laid them, then marked the end points on the tiles, then relaid them on a level area and marked straight lines on the tiles with a straight edge.Much measuring , cutting, measuring andlater the results are below.
    All cutting was done on the Dewalt, although it is not supposed to handle tiles of this size, only a couple of small areas had to be cut face down
    (More tanking to be applied to the walls but I ran out, Not due in until Thursday!)
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    classy job there Andrew you worked it out well.
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    Glad you got round it despite the lack of help from us lot! Well done FH

    Is there some sort of optical illusion going on with that shower? In the first pic it looks like a standard size shower and in the second looks really wide! It looks as though it's going to be a great shower but if it is really wide then the system must have some pressure for those body jets to work... ahhh just noticed how high they've been placed allowing for the water to drop

    Looking forward to the finished pics Tommy, looks like it's gonna be a cracker

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    CR, I thought the same as the shower is about 1700 wide!, 3 way mixer installed, Body jets, top shower rose and overhead rain shower!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tommyzooom View Post
    shower is about 1700 wide!
    I've seen smaller car washes

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