Big tiles................ - Tile Advice

[One Day]

Alone, I can manage 800x800x12mm and that's with a good core and back. Tried some 1000x1000x10mm alone using x2 suckers and it's too much reach for a shorty 5'10".

This week finished fixing some 3m x 1.5m x6mm from Ariostea and with 2 bods it's heavy and hard work, particularly as they have to be so carefully managed.

 

[Just Rizzle]

one of the reasons im doing more and more floors in karndean and lvt
the sizes are getting stupid and most of them are rectified and chip easily.

did 13 mtrs karndean floor today took 3 hrs if i did same in 600 x6oo would of took all day im looking for an easier life

 

[J Sid]

looked outside on the job I've just started....there is 7 pallets of 1800 x 900 x 20 porcelain to be layed, I really hope i don't get asked

 

[Waluigi]

one of the reasons im doing more and more floors in karndean and lvt
the sizes are getting stupid and most of them are rectified and chip easily.

did 13 mtrs karndean floor today took 3 hrs if i did same in 600 x6oo would of took all day im looking for an easier life

That’s practically all I spec these days in Bathrooms. So much quicker and easier. Naturally warmer under foot and easier to keep clean too.

That said, I put tiles on my floor at home. I just preferred the look.

Biggest (rigid) tiles I’d do and have done is 1200 x 600mm. I’m not equipped to do anything larger with manpower or equipment.

 

[Old Mod]

looked outside on the job I've just started....there is 7 pallets of 1800 x 900 x 20 porcelain to be layed, I really hope i don't get asked

Ouch!

 

[Old Mod]

Jack or Jim?

Chocolate

 

[Old Mod]

The 1800 x 900 I mentioned earlier.
Just have to resin the mitres and epoxy grout floor when we go back in the new year.

 

[Albert]

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Umbrian limestone - hope they all blend when complete.
It’ll be better when they’re grouted!!
Already had to remove the middle one because the client said there was too much variety in it!
Only 70 metres to fix.

I think i would be telling the client that he is welcome to
sort through and reject any he is not happy with before i
fix them

 

[Dumbo]

View attachment 103298
Umbrian limestone - hope they all blend when complete.
It’ll be better when they’re grouted!!
Already had to remove the middle one because the client said there was too much variety in it!
Only 70 metres to fix.

Some people shouldn't have natural products , i don't think they understand what they are buying. I had a woman once saying with some Chinese multi slate , i don't like that one all the time doing her complete downstairs . So when it came to the last room she had all the stuff she didn't like .

 

[Italy]

Ok - so when is it a tile and not a sheet?
Apart from the adhesive factor what do the large format porcelain thins have in common with our trade?
Shower boards have been around a good few years and are fitted by plumbers and joiners.
There is undoubtably a technical skill required for the complexity of these ‘panels’ , along with a complete new set of specialist tools, but like vitrolite 50 years ago it didn’t come within the plasterers/bricklayers/tilers portfolio.
So is it because it’s imported by tile suppliers, is it because it’s porcelain, or is it because tilers fix them that these new sheets are called ‘big tiles’?

the young tilers, I think must necessarily
learn the pose of large formats.
otherwise in a few years they will be without work.
ps. just my thoughts

 

[Italy]

View attachment 103298
Umbrian limestone - hope they all blend when complete.
It’ll be better when they’re grouted!!
Already had to remove the middle one because the client said there was too much variety in it!
Only 70 metres to fix.

UMBRIAN ? in short, we still speak of Italy ....

 

[Boggs]

That’s practically all I spec these days in Bathrooms. So much quicker and easier. Naturally warmer under foot and easier to keep clean too.

That said, I put tiles on my floor at home. I just preferred the look.

Biggest (rigid) tiles I’d do and have done is 1200 x 600mm. I’m not equipped to do anything larger with manpower or equipment.

Same here, especially as lots of clients like the wood plank tiles at the moment but don’t want a cold floor, by the time you have priced in Warmup there are substantial savings to be made.

 

[Dumbo]

Not sure we should promoting the use of lvt on a tiling page , what next nuance board .

 

[Boggs]

Not sure we should promoting the use of lvt on a tiling page , what next nuance board .

Yeah why not, just like really big tiles and no grout at all.

 

[One Day]

Some people shouldn't have natural products , i don't think they understand what they are buying. I had a woman once saying with some Chinese multi slate , i don't like that one all the time doing her complete downstairs . So when it came to the last room she had all the stuff she didn't like .

There was a Topp's "approved fitter" years ago in Preston who did 50+sqm of polished cappuccino marble for a lady who on returning from holiday, rejected the job on the basis that the floor didn't look like the sample piece the shop sold her.
She actually wanted every tile to be the same.

And Topps fed her stupidity (or brilliance) by refunding her in full.