Can anyone explain what is going on here ?

[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

Floor looks lovely, but the method they are using seems to go against everything I know about tile fixing, notch trowel !!
are they using some special method I do not know about, or as I suspect doing it wrong ?
Confused
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[jay]

Different

[suave]

no experience in it but hey hey more than one way to swing a cat

[Alan.P]

This has been posted before, the whole companies way of work is a joke imo, from the camera mans babbling to the fixing method.

[MissTiler]

Was that primer he painted on the floor just before applying the ady?

[kilty55]

i think he was trowelling on thinset with a small trowel missy

and then applying mortar with a guaging trowel or something like that lol

[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

If you listen to the narrative, they say they started the tiling that day !!!! Looking at their method this is impossible, and a lie. see how long it takes em to fix one tile ! Must have started it weeks ago

[Oli]

no experience in it but hey hey more than one way to swing a cat

Do you mean more that once way to String a cat.......lol

[Alan.P]

Yeah, he did say he was applying thin-set to the back of the trav, after he had slapped it down on the mortar on top of more thin-set wtf ???

[Mike]

looks very time consuming the way he's applying the adhesive and i doubt he's getting anywhere near 100% solid bed

[Bri]

Is it not skin a cat???!!!


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[kilty55]

is it not shave a cat?

[ms.tiles]

im sure its skin a cat!!! lol

[suave]

Do you mean more that once way to String a cat.......lol

fling a cat lol

[suave]

lmao it is skin a cat,a wiz half asleep this morn

[Bri]

I'm laughing so much! This is turning into a really funny thread! My wife is brilliant at getting sayings wrong! Her hair straighteners weren't working very well and she said, 'I think they're giving up the goat' priceless!!!


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[Ajax123]

Is this not simple pressed wet bed method of tiling. It is vey common on the ontinent and used to be similar to he way quarry tiles were laid in england before he avnt of thin bed ahesives. The "adhesive" is a strongish sand cement mix. The " primer" onthe floor is likely to be. Bonding agent such as sbr at a guess.

[Ajax123]

Must tough old trav hough not to break it with the hamme.

I laid my patio slabs like this

[Mike]

Is this not simple pressed wet bed method of tiling. It is vey common on the ontinent and used to be similar to he way quarry tiles were laid in england before he avnt of thin bed ahesives. The "adhesive" is a strongish sand cement mix. The " primer" onthe floor is likely to be. Bonding agent such as sbr at a guess.

you need a new keyboard mate

[widler]

Must tough old trav hough not to break it with the hamme.

I laid my patio slabs like this

was thinking the same thing,hit trav with a bloody skinned cat over here,it breaks.

also,the method looked time consuming,and the middle bed dident look 100%,looked a good job though,at a glance

[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

What is all this 100 percent coverage malarkey ? 80 percent is more than sufficiemt

[Oli]

String didn't sound right but I couldn't think of anything else... Lol skin is so obvious now lol.

Well that's back fired on me hasn't it!


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[CJ CERAMICS]

not too sure about the fixing method........but i feel sorry for the damn cat.

[Alan.P]

What is all this 100 percent coverage malarkey ? 80 percent is more than sufficiemt

British Standards might argue that statement

[ms.tiles]

hahaha my wifes mate thought jesus christ was 2 different people.
back to the thread though,surely its a lot more time consuming doing that way and there wasnt any grout gaps that i could make out.

[andy8758]

I've said it before and I will say it again.

Cocaine and tiling do not mix.

The guys cant help themselves - they r from Florida.

[Ken Bruty]

I think I'll stick to my method, as my life is too short . I've never seen such a cackhanded way of fixing trav, and no backskimming either. Wouldn't last two minutes on ufh imo.

[Phil Hobson]

As Ajax says this is a very common method of fixing still, in many parts of the world. Used to be here in the UK, Terrazzo is still fixed this way. Slurry bond to floor, in this case thin-set, ( cement based adhesive ), sand and cement mortar, then slurry bond to back of tile. Gary the tiler is using this method atm on his current contract. Gary calls it "drop fixing" we use to call it free hand, same thing. You can lay some serious meterage, once you have mastered the technique

[Ken Bruty]

I can see it working on a terrazzo tile or granite/marble, but imo I think this method is dangerous with travertine, and any filler would be dropping through in no time even when not on ufh.

[timeless john]

As per AJAX - we used to use a neat cement slurry to bond the floor, a strong sand/cement screed, and then tap the tiles into the semi dry mix with a slurry of cement on the back of each tile. Always 100% coverage and you could drive cars over them.
As there are 3/4 working the job it would seem reasonable IMO to have that amount of tiling done since they started that day (only about 20metres).
It would be interesting if some of the American members had a view on the fixing method.
Personally I believe it's a cost effective way especially when we are not aware of the levels/sub floor conditions that they may be being asked to flow into in other rooms out of camera.
It's not the best commentary and sound's more like an 'off the cuff' homeowners house build review and they are spending that extra bit of time for the camera.