It's all about the bays. - Tile Advice

[Andy Allen]

Anyone who's tiled with quarry tiles, or pilks 4 square or similar will know how easy it is to run out of line.
Sure fire way of keeping your tiles stright.....
We used to fit boat loads of smaller tiles this way back in the day.
Brought back memories tiling this job yesterday.

 

[LM]

I use a 600mm roofing square and a 3 meter straight edge and it's the only way I'd do it. Between tile sizes and wavy floors it doesn't take very much to through you off line any other way.

 

[mma]

Every day is a school day! Good post

 

[Rick-o]

As above very good post!

 

[Flintstone]

Looks good, I've done quite a few quarry tile jobs over the years, some new, some reclaimed, your right you have to be carefull for running off especially if your not using spacers and having a reasonably wide joint. I like to grout them with sand and cement, gives them a real old look like they have been down years

 

[peteablard]

Nice job mate. I did a job last year, 120m2 all set out in chalk link bays. They were 9" reclaimed blues that varied by 20mm. I love jobs like that.

 

[Aston]

nice one andy.
deano had some pics on the forum of him working in bays with a team of lads on a large commercial floor, not sure if they are still on here?
phil hobsons job was to set out the bays on aldi's and large commercial jobs. He said he could gauge who was quick and who was slow by how well they kept up with each other. The slow ones got found out lol.

 

[WetSaw]

I see what you did with the thread title...

 

[Andy Allen]

nice one andy.
deano had some pics on the forum of him working in bays with a team of lads on a large commercial floor, not sure if they are still on here?
phil hobsons job was to set out the bays on aldi's and large commercial jobs. He said he could gauge who was quick and who was slow by how well they kept up with each other. The slow ones got found out lol.

I remember that, car showroom or work shop......you can put down some serious meters with this method of tiling..

 

[Diggy]

Only way to do it!

Diggy

 

[Old Mod]

That's how I was taught to do large commercial floors.
I still use the same principle today when ever I'm dealing with irregular sized tiles, handmade or otherwise.
I apply the same technique on walls too, just even out the joints in each individual bay and it gives a more than acceptable finish over the entire area.

 

[J Sid]

when I first started way back in '86 as a labourer then improver we used to do very large floors, 10's of 1000's of m2 floors, brewery's, milk plants, factory's. Biggest I remember was Walls ice-cream Gloucester (I think)
Anyway, we used the same principle, but we laid in sand and cement and ran ribs down a to drains about 10 mts apart with the high spot half way between them.
once ribs set out it was just a matter of pulling a line between them and bedding a couple of courses at a time.
all pointed in Epoxy.

 

[Andy Allen]

Walls ice cream.......I live about 4 miles from the factory.....my mates dad worked there, was always telling me how he kept tripping over those bloody tiles..

 

[Italy]

Walls ice cream.......I live about 4 miles from the factory.....my mates dad worked there, was always telling me how he kept tripping over those bloody tiles..

too many claims, julian at that time was only a former sailor. ahah

 

[Dan]

That's awesome. Bet that straight edge doesn't come out much for floors these days.