Help!: advice on marble installation

[buckman81]

Hi i've just got a job tiling three bathrooms in polished marble has anyone got advice on cutting curves and grouts to use as i have not worked with marble before. Cheers

1st thing is use white flexable adhesive
use an angle grinder for the curved cuts
bal flexi grout
no doubt gaz or james will jump in here

[whitebeam]

Mapei grout if you can get it

Originally Posted by whitebeam

Mapei grout if you can get it

i find that a bit to sandy for a 2 mm joint my self

[whitebeam]

Originally Posted by pjtiler

1st thing is use white flexable adhesive
use an angle grinder for the curved cuts
bal flexi grout
no doubt gaz or james will jump in here

Do you use one off the standard blades or the curved ones

Originally Posted by whitebeam

Do you use one off the standard blades or the curved ones

[whitebeam]

Your hard work sometimes

[TilingLogistics]

Originally Posted by pjtiler

i find that a bit to sandy for a 2 mm joint my self

Havbe you tried the Kerracolour PJ?

Kev

[grumpygrouter]

Originally Posted by pjtiler

i find that a bit to sandy for a 2 mm joint my self

Ultracolor Plus isn't sandy PJ. I have used the silver grey colour on a Carrara marble and it was really good for that installation.

[grumpygrouter]

Originally Posted by buckman81

Hi i've just got a job tiling three bathrooms in polished marble has anyone got advice on cutting curves and grouts to use as i have not worked with marble before. Cheers

Marble is really soft stuff. If you have bedded a tile in and then need to lift it, say to correct levels, be very careful how you do it as the tiles break very easily! They also scratch very easily. I didn't need to cut curves when I laid my floor so can't comment on that with regard to marble.

[MICK the Tiler]

Invest in some suction cup lifters these will help with moving tiles around, also allow for plenty of addy. The marble I'm working with at the moment varies in thickness by 5mm as for cutting curves use an angle grinder and i use some lead solder as a flexable ruler to get the shape then I freehand score with a hand held glass cutter makes it easier to see the mark. Be careful when marking marble with pencil it can be very stubborn to remove so mark out accurately. For grout the smoother the better.

[365drills]

In addition to straight line cuts and curve if you also need to drill holes you will get best results from diamonds. As mentioned above marble is really soft and in the past we've managed to dry drill it with our core drills.

Some marble actually drilled better without water - than with.

The other point above about being careful with pencil marks is valid too. In fact we always use masking tape on marble as a barrier to penetration.