Broken bond/brick

[reidy]

When tiling broken bond/brick does everybody get perfect joints,flush joints,even allowing for the wall running off,or does it only take for one bit of the wall to be sticking out,for the whole wall to be ruined?

[whitebeam]

If your doing brick bond your walls really need to be flat, any deviation will give you lipping

[doug boardley]

this is a brick bond splahback I did, it looked really good until the downlighters went on the tiles had a slight bow in them causing a big shadow to form from the middle of a tile onto the course below; so always check your tiles are flat too

[doug boardley]

I re-did it on a standard bond, and it looks better (imo)

[marke]

yep nice job Doug had the same problem myself tiles look good till ya hit the lights . i think standard bond looks superb on those tiles much more contemporary mate. Always the way with brick bond tiles do sometimes have a slight curve and if the wall is not 100% its all the more annoying , its something i have discussed more and more with customers either prep or compromise

[whitebeam]

I try and simulate the lighting thats going to be used

[tommyzooom]

Beware downlighters,The last bathroom I did there were 2 leds over the bath about 2" out from the wall, when I had the wall tiled I checked it with a lamp held close to the wall to check for any shadows that would emerge when they were wired up.

[davy_G]

The bigger the tiles the worse the effect

[doug boardley]

luckily for me Davy, I'd back to backed them, and shown main contractor the prob, so I actually got paid twice for it

[davy_G]

luckily for me Davy, I'd back to backed them, and shown main contractor the prob, so I actually got paid twice for it

Winner!

[reidy]

The tile size i was using for the broken bond was on one wall was 600mmx333 and the other walls tiles were 1000mmx400mm ,so it was quite hard to get all the tiles flush,i warned customer before hand there might be a bit of a problem getting them all flush,and yes the downlighters dont help.

[Wingn]

Before I start a broken bond job, I'd usually lay both tiles down face to face on each other to see if there's any bow in them, then explain to the customer if there is.

[Phil Hobson]

Wingn just took the words out of my mouth. I did a job 2/3 weeks back, the customer had bought 600mm x 300mm porcelain. First thing I did was place two tiles face to face, sure enough there was a seesaw efect. I told the customer if you want brick bond get another tiler, luckily he agreed. As for downlights I insist on 90% lux of finished lights in end position. Makes all the diference.

[Fred]

Did bond on a floor last week, really expensive porcelian and they were all bowed! Showed the client, but she said go ahead and loved it. Some of the corners were those ones that fall away so it looked even worse.

[doug boardley]

Before I start a broken bond job, I'd usually lay both tiles down face to face on each other to see if there's any bow in them, then explain to the customer if there is.

that's what I meant by back to backing them Wingn

[faithhealer]

Have a brick bond to do over Xmas! Going to have to work hard on the 'window' wall! Not good, but not much showing thankfully. (font size basin, BTW Wc & bath)