Advice please

[redcol]

Hello everyone, i was just wondering how many square meters of tiling most people would expect to get through in a day, thanks.

[Alan.P]

Depends on a lot of things, wall or floor, tile type and size, adhesive and grouts, substrates, commercial or domestic, really too many different equations to give an average, what did you have in mind ?

[redcol]

Thanks for message i was looking for a rough guide to wall tiling, mixing adhesive and fixing onto reasonably flat plastered walls.

[Alan.P]

With wall tiles you have to take into account size and whether your gonna use a tubbed or bagged addy ( depending again, on size and type ) really to many if's and but's to give an estimate, but, my Brother and myself just fixed 96 ish m2 of 250 x 200 bumpy white wall tiles in a week, not saying that 10m2 is average, slow or fast, just an example, on the other hand, we did 36m2 400 x 400 polished porcelain floor tiles in 4 days. Then you get other jobs that fly and some that crawl for no apparent reason.

Just too many different possibilies, sorry if that hasn't helped any

[brian c]

depends how much cutting etc is invoved aswell.

[Fekin]

As people have said, there's many factors that can change the amount of sqm you can get tiled in a day.

One big one can be tile size.

You can have nice flat big walls with nothing to cut around and using say 300's, you may easily get 30sqm or more done in a day, but change the tile size to 100's and your gonna be doing a whole lot less.

and that's just one example, many others will limit the amount of sqm you will get laid in a day.

[faithhealer]

I'm not fast at all, just set out to do the best job possible

[doug boardley]

about 1200sq metres per annum on domestic work

[mart08]

As the guys are saying it all depends on alot of factors. I'm doing a job at the moment with a pal and its taking ages

[Fekin]

about 1200sq metres per annum on domestic work

hmm, around 4.6 sqm per day then doug

[Alpha Omega]

I find the fixing is the easy and fast bit,
I seem to take ages to plan and mark out,
Mixing and spreading the addhesive is the worst, it takes me ages when working alone ?

How do you apply the adhesive ? I find the quickest way is to use a plaster's hawk, another bonus is that I drop a lot less addhesive, so benefits all round

Gary

[whitebeam]

Use a small hand trowel to scoop onto the spreader

[doug boardley]

hmm, around 4.6 sqm per day then doug

yeah, or about can't put a £ per annum in here can I?!!

[redcol]

Thank you all for your replys you have been very helpfull. cheers