Tips for setting out - TilersForums.com

[acaciaguy]

I always initially mark out from centres and see what that looks like. After marking the walls and floor and taking into account the bath, shower, window sills etc. Like Acaciaguy says, it can take an hour just getting it right.
Man, if a customer walked into a bathroom or kitchen that i was marking out they would wonder what all the scribbling on their walls and floor were, and coupled with the pencil sharpenings on the floor they would probably wonder wtf!! lol

my walls look like they have been assaulted by a box of sharpies 😀

 

[Old Mod]

If you have to compromise

Compromise, what is this compromise mean? 🤷🏻‍♂️

it can take an hour just getting it right.

An hour?

If only I could set a room in an hour 🙈

 

[Boggs]

I would have thought set out was easy with your monster tiles @3_fall.

 

[Dumbo]

I would have thought set out was easy with your monster tiles @3_fall.

He knows nothing about setting each tile he fits hits the ceiling and the floor and both adjacent walls

 

[Old Mod]

I would have thought set out was easy with your monster tiles @3_fall.

I wish Neil, typically clients will NOT buy spare material.
And to make it even easier, they start one side of a door frame and do one continual measurement to the other side of the door frame and divide by 1.2 or 1.6. And think nothing of material for niches, window reveals blah blah.
Last bathroom I did had 400mm sill and reveals and they wanted it in one piece with no joint and window was 1m x 1m that’s a lot of extra material.
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He knows nothing about setting each tile he fits hits the ceiling and the floor and both adjacent walls

In the immortal words of Bart Simpson!

BITE ME 😊

 

[Boggs]

And that’s why I like to stick to 600 x 300 max 😂

That said I have some 1200 x 600 coming up

 

[JMC tiling]

Compromise, what is this compromise mean? 🤷🏻‍♂️



An hour?

If only I could set a room in an hour 🙈

For instance: basin on window wall with wall mounted taps off centre to window. so you centre to window or centre to tap. thats a compromise.

 

[Old Mod]

For instance: basin on window wall with wall mounted taps off centre to window. so you centre to window or centre to tap. thats a compromise.

Sorry, being facetious, clients I come across, compromise is not in their vocabulary.
Those that know my work know I was being ridiculous. 😊