just wondering how many of you have actually mixed and laid your own screed and fixed tiles onto a cement slurry,i dont mean using SLS

Jimmy

Not me, far too young into the business to have done anything technical like that.....

Originally Posted by grumpygrouter

Not me, far too young into the business to have done anything technical like that.....

theres bound to be some more OLD TIMERS like me around,Dave,Dan Doug etc etc

Jimmy

Yep me

Was doing a screed at a 400 year old house to an extension, There was some old quarries that had to laid on an raised area of floor and was asked to lay them and all I done was wet the bottom of the tile and bedded them into the screed, That was 3-4 years ago and have never moved

Originally Posted by MJT

Yep me

is that yep me " i am an OLD TIMER" or yep me i have made and laid my own screed lol lol

Jimmy

Originally Posted by whitebeam

Was doing a screed at a 400 year old house to an extension, There was some old quarries that had to laid on an raised area of floor and was asked to lay them and all I done was wet the bottom of the tile and bedded them into the screed, That was 3-4 years ago and have never moved

me personally would just have made a cement slurry and fixed them,better grab and suction onto the screed

Jimmy

same as whitebeam only stuck em cement slurry

both yep old, and yep to tiling jimmy

laid thousands of metres of it. used to lay to the line all the time until the germans introduced us to vibration tiling. thats where you screed the lot and work on the screed with plastic snow shoes. used to screed and lay 120sqm a day ( 4-5 of us) dont miss them days.

check out one of my old posts jimmy" tile with out adhesive and save £££" I posted some pictures of a sand and cement screed and tile job, you should find it in the adhesive and grout forum

for any one interested in sand and cement floor tiling i have posted some pictures in an album for my friends and contacts to look at , i have some sand and cement wall tiling coming up soon i will add these when i have done the job

Are these listed buildings your doing Gary

no not at all ,it is just sometimes more cost effective to tile this way and i some respects quicker you have to wait for drying times of green screeds or render

Still do it almost daily, Don't forget to soak your tiles first.

One of the 1st big contracts i worked on was a private school. That was all screeded floors and i still see the job now and again. Its still looks great, quarry tiles just seem to look better with age.

With all the modern methods why revert to the old ways of doing tiling, It's got to be refurbs because these ways of working would'nt work in modern housing, Not the way there thrown up in the uk don't know about the Australian methods of new builds

spent a month doing this at college never had the chance to do it on a job though. I was taught to lay the screed and then back butter the quarry tile.

Not too hard at college in a small bay but I reckon it would take some practice in a decent sized area lol

Can't remember last time I did any screeding, to me a Tiler fixes tiles, and a Floor screeder screeds floors.
I hope old way of Tiling isn't coming back the next thing you know chicken tiles will be back.

Originally Posted by MJT

Can't remember last time I did any screeding, to me a Tiler fixes tiles, and a Floor screeder screeds floors.
I hope old way of Tiling isn't coming back the next thing you know chicken tiles will be back.

Just get the birds all the right way up

Originally Posted by medlar

just wondering how many of you have actually mixed and laid your own screed and fixed tiles onto a cement slurry,i dont mean using SLS

Jimmy

I have, on occasion... There's a certain charm to it, but it's very heavy work.

dampened tiles used to split my finger ends!

Originally Posted by garythetiler

for any one interested in sand and cement floor tiling i have posted some pictures in an album for my friends and contacts to look at , i have some sand and cement wall tiling coming up soon i will add these when i have done the job

Hi Gary, would you need a hand with the sand and cement on the wall? do it for nada. just send me a ticket. what mix do you use do you soak the tiles, just tell us a bit more about it.

floor tiles yes like Mick but i dont bother soaking floortiles

Al

Hi, I do my own screed, and fix tiles or plates directly ,with Mayonaise(slurry) or comb the back with addy.The last time I had to do a bathroom in sand and cement(Walls), was 7 years ago.I have no problem with this as its part of aTilers Apprenticaship( where is the Spell Check function!?)
I`m happy using the Old and New methods as here there is a market for both!2Balls

Originally Posted by garythetiler

check out one of my old posts jimmy" tile with out adhesive and save £££" I posted some pictures of a sand and cement screed and tile job, you should find it in the adhesive and grout forum

Cheers Gary mate,gonna be nosey now and take a peek

Jimmy

Originally Posted by MJT

Can't remember last time I did any screeding, to me a Tiler fixes tiles, and a Floor screeder screeds floors.
I hope old way of Tiling isn't coming back the next thing you know chicken tiles will be back.

yes and a tiler is also responsible for setting heights,screeding etc,it was ths "DONE" thing whilst serving my time,you had to do it and do it well,Ah the good old days when mosaic was`nt on sheets,and you soaked your tiles in a 45 gallon drum over night in the bleakest of winters ha ha ha

Jimmy