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Hi everyone at Tilers,
I am restoring one of the ruins on my land in Extremadura. The ruin has beautiful dry stone walls but the terracotta roof is leaky and the floor is just concrete and it would be good to liven it up a bit.
I would like to tile the floor and would love it if you could give me some advice. I have some salvaged normal tiles but I find them too modern for the rustic ruin I am looking to restore. Ideally I would like to make a giant mosaic on the floor out of broken roof tiles and slate stone. The terracotta roof tiles are curved but if broken up sufficiently the curvature is negligible. Although I have done a lot of masonry and DIY, my tiling knowledge is very basic. What mortar would you advise for such a job? 'Thin-Set Tile Mortar' seems rather expensive and perhaps inappropriate for what I am aiming to do. I remember helping someone tile a chapel in Galilee and he used lime. Would this just be normal hydrated lime render like you use on walls or would it have to have some special ingredients for a floor?
I have seen that when people do mosaics they lay out a dry mix of mortar, add the stone or tiles in the shape they would like the mosaic and then wet the mortar when they are happy with the design. Would you advise this technique even for a large mosaic. The floor area we are talking about is about 6 x 4 metres.
Any advice would be most appreciated,
LEAO +
I am restoring one of the ruins on my land in Extremadura. The ruin has beautiful dry stone walls but the terracotta roof is leaky and the floor is just concrete and it would be good to liven it up a bit.
I would like to tile the floor and would love it if you could give me some advice. I have some salvaged normal tiles but I find them too modern for the rustic ruin I am looking to restore. Ideally I would like to make a giant mosaic on the floor out of broken roof tiles and slate stone. The terracotta roof tiles are curved but if broken up sufficiently the curvature is negligible. Although I have done a lot of masonry and DIY, my tiling knowledge is very basic. What mortar would you advise for such a job? 'Thin-Set Tile Mortar' seems rather expensive and perhaps inappropriate for what I am aiming to do. I remember helping someone tile a chapel in Galilee and he used lime. Would this just be normal hydrated lime render like you use on walls or would it have to have some special ingredients for a floor?
I have seen that when people do mosaics they lay out a dry mix of mortar, add the stone or tiles in the shape they would like the mosaic and then wet the mortar when they are happy with the design. Would you advise this technique even for a large mosaic. The floor area we are talking about is about 6 x 4 metres.
Any advice would be most appreciated,
LEAO +
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