1 metre long porcelain wall tiles

[sjw450]

hey, ive got a bathroom to do in 2 weeks for my brothers friend,
his wife has went out and bought 1000 by 300cm porcelain wall tiles,
biggest cutter i have is a ts60 plus so i guess i'll need to hire a cutter from somewhere? also his ceiling is 2.3 metres high because hes lowered it and he and his wife want the tiles vertical, so what would you guys do, have a full tile from the floor up and a 30cm cut at roof or have a 15cm cut at top and bottom, ive only been tiling for 2 years and never had this situation, there a stupid size of tile for a small bathroom is u ask me but any advice would be great thanks, steven

[brummie tiler]

Walk away!!haha

[sjw450]

i would but its my bros friend haha nightmare!

[kilty55]

hi sjw,i had an alomost identical job a month ago,was ceramic tiles 1000 by 300 each tile weighed 7.5 kilos mate so first thing i would do as i was advised would be to check if the walls will hold this weight with addy and grout added on.i wouldnt start a full tile from the floor its almost guaranteed your floor isnt spot on which will throw your tiles all over the shop,i used rapid set with a 10mm floor trowel for fixing these.hope this helps

[sjw450]

great that will help! thanks

[kilty55]

i did start this job however i stopped halfway through swj after advive from guys on here about the weight of tile going on to lath n plaster walls,but your gonna have a hard slod working with those buggers mate id be pricing accordingly friends or not

[muffinman]

adhesive to used nanolite should be a breeze

[kilty55]

was more like a hurricane mate

[eamonn]

Originally Posted by sjw450

hey, ive got a bathroom to do in 2 weeks for my brothers friend,
his wife has went out and bought 1000 by 300cm porcelain wall tiles,
biggest cutter i have is a ts60 plus so i guess i'll need to hire a cutter from somewhere? also his ceiling is 2.3 metres high because hes lowered it and he and his wife want the tiles vertical, so what would you guys do, have a full tile from the floor up and a 30cm cut at roof or have a 15cm cut at top and bottom, ive only been tiling for 2 years and never had this situation, there a stupid size of tile for a small bathroom is u ask me but any advice would be great thanks, steven

sjw i would start 650mm from the floor that should leave you 650 to the celing aswell, good luck.

[bj F]

hire the tx 1200 from ctd

[365drills]

Assume these are 9mm thick and not something fatter than that.

Its a fact tiles are getting bigger and luxury bathrooms demand that "look" so tilers will be stuck with it of a while....

Best thing is... Most clients pay more for top quality work

Better not to walk away from large porcelain tiles.

PS: IF you ever need to see a website with superb results with large format tiles then please have a look at this site. Quality work all the way.

The other things I'd say (as I always do with Porcelain Tile posts) is of course dont forget ya drill bitz.

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[kilty55]

i forgot to say that as well whats the thickness,,ones i was working with were 12mm no dry cutter would deal with it,,all wet cuts