In at the deep end

[ozworth]

Hello and a good to meet you all.Im a landscaper living in the south of france and have just got a job working for this man who wants me to mosaic a swimming pool.This is my first experience at tiling and its about 250 square metres odd.I firstly removed all the old mosaic and have been tiling away.My problem is i have to tile these new steps going into the pool which are straight and then curve around like cheeses wedges.The riser also curves into the tread so there are no right angles at all.Is there any system or rule of thumb way to contiue the flow of the tiles with out them V'ing in on each other.thanks!

[faithhealer]

welcome ozworth, first job eh,

[david campbell]

to the forum

[whitebeam]

If there v'ing you will have trim them so the mosaic flow into each other rather than suddenly butting into each other.

Did look for pictures but could'nt find any

Hi and welcome to the forum

[whitebeam]

Found something SiteBuilder

[jay]

and hi (first job////////////// )

[Terry Cottar]

brave man for first job! welcome to the forum

tel

[poynton phil]

Hi and welcome to the forum, and good luck with the job.

[ozworth]

Thanks for all the replies.The photo is similar to how the the right hand corner is but there is another angle in the steps which curves round and then runs the entire width of the pool.It also has some external angles.I dont have a camera with me so i knocked a rough drawing up on ms paint with my rapidly cracking adhesive fingers.

[python]

i remeber my r=first job, i wasnt that brave though.. hi and welcome.

[ozworth]

Hello i have now finished the steps which i think i did the hard way.I did not know that it was ok to have cuts in the mosaic pieces when i started them and managed to fan the mosaic pieces around the steps so they all joined seamlesly.This gave me quite a few head aches but now its done,just the floor to go now which i will do like the picture from whitebeam.Also im not that brave i sort of just got stuck with doing this as im normally laying slabs but despite a few stressfull moments am quite happy with it so i think ill be back again soon.Thanks again for all of your help!

[Alan.P]

Well done mate, lets see some pictures of the finished job, we love pictures