which method is best?

[jonty]

I'm going to tile my kitchen floor(first time). I have watched two different methods on a tiling DVD and on the net but not sure which is the correct way.

The first is to get centre lines+cuts and tile from the centre of the floor back to walls.

The second is get centre lines and dry lay tiles to wall to get width of cut, then draw a line where the cuts should go and begin with cuts and work from the wall back to the centre of the room.

Any ideas which way i should go? thanks

[grumpygrouter]

You should work out your setting out and then start tiling as far away from your exit door as possible and tile back to it. If you start in the middle of the floor you will end up having to try and avoid stepping on tiles with wet adhesive.

[deanotile]

I'm going to tile my kitchen floor(first time). I have watched two different methods on a tiling DVD and on the net but not sure which is the correct way.

The first is to get centre lines+cuts and tile from the centre of the floor back to walls.

The second is get centre lines and dry lay tiles to wall to get width of cut, then draw a line where the cuts should go and begin with cuts and work from the wall back to the centre of the room.

Any ideas which way i should go? thanks

If you pm me with your Emale I will send you a power point of how to set out your floor.

[jonty]

thanks for info

[medlar]

Centre your floor,staff it out,start from your furthest point working back towards the door

[doug boardley]

dry lay everything, including cuts, mix your adhesive and lift a couple of courses in order and wet lay those and keep doing so working back to your door.

[hillhead]

No call to dry cut here unless you have many obstacles,
i would very rarely dry cut unless awkward positions.
i don't dry lay either,if you line it out well and keep to your lines you'll be fine.

[graham31]

i'm with setting out the floor and start at the furthest point away from your exit door working back to it.

[doug boardley]

but if you want to get it grouted the same day, you don't want to be faffing around with cuts when you've a bucketful of rapid set,do you? imao