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andyg · 21-03-2008

greetings to all from sunny tenerife. i am starting a job tiling a 50m2 sun terrace soon. the clients builder has laid the base for me to tile ,the problem is in one corner he laid a level area area of 2.5m2 ready for a hot tub to sit on. he has then ran a severe slope on two sides for any water spillage to drain away from the building. i knoe i could run tiles at the corner at 45degree cuts but the client woht have this if i lay them square they dont sit right .does anybody have any suggestions.

**Raja** · 21-03-2008

Ha Ha Ha Teneriffe u lucky bugga

Am up there in June hope the weather is lovely got wintery showers and gale force winds up ere in yorkshire

TilingLogistics · 21-03-2008

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Originally Posted by andyg

greetings to all from sunny tenerife. i am starting a job tiling a 50m2 sun terrace soon. the clients builder has laid the base for me to tile ,the problem is in one corner he laid a level area area of 2.5m2 ready for a hot tub to sit on. he has then ran a severe slope on two sides for any water spillage to drain away from the building. i knoe i could run tiles at the corner at 45degree cuts but the client woht have this if i lay them square they dont sit right .does anybody have any suggestions.

It sounds to me as if you have a major problem before you start. I would question if the clients builder knows what he is doing. A fall for water to run away is 1:600 so why he has sloped the fall away at such an extreme level is the first question. Secondly where is the sun terrace? Because if it's suspended in anyway you need to check how thick the plinth is that the tub is going to sit on. The plinth or base needs careful calculation and needs to take into account the size of the tub together with the total weight og water and the total weight when it is full of people. The fact that he has done what he has done so far would make me suspicious and if you think about the spillage from a hot tub is minimal anyway and dries very quickly.

Kev

dptiling · 21-03-2008

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Originally Posted by TilingLogistics

It sounds to me as if you have a major problem before you start. I would question if the clients builder knows what he is doing. A fall for water to run away is 1:600 so why he has sloped the fall away at such an extreme level is the first question. Secondly where is the sun terrace? Because if it's suspended in anyway you need to check how thick the plinth is that the tub is going to sit on. The plinth or base needs careful calculation and needs to take into account the size of the tub together with the total weight og water and the total weight when it is full of people. The fact that he has done what he has done so far would make me suspicious and if you think about the spillage from a hot tub is minimal anyway and dries very quickly.

Kev

i agree how much water are they expecting ?
its only a like a bath, not a swiming pool. and in that heat the water would dry quickly.

**365drills** · 25-03-2008

Greetings from sunny places as well

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Another day at the office

TilingLogistics · 25-03-2008

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Greetings from sunny places as well

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Another day at the office

That's just what we wanted to see a picture of!!!Don't you just love some people? I suppose the girls are with you as well?

I mean nobody wanted to see a picture of them!!! The drill guide system was much more interesting

Kev

**wetdec** · 25-03-2008

Did anyone just maybe think that a large surface such as this requires a good slope not a fair slope to accomodate the rain storms they get in Tenerife. There is also a good chance the builder has done this before.

Just a thought

tiler

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TilingLogistics · 25-03-2008

[quote=wetdec;68101]Did anyone just maybe think that a large surface such as this requires a good slope not a fair slope to accomodate the rain storms they get in Tenerife. There is also a good chance the builder has done this before.

Just a thought

tiler

I lived in Spain for nearly two years and I used to help a builder install these things. I guess I helped with about 7 or 8 which I understand is not a lot. But from that little bit of limited experience we never built any with a fall for the water.

Furthermore, having met several builders in Spain there is also a good chance the builder has never installed one before! Judging by the description so far I would say he hasn't.

Kev

**wetdec** · 25-03-2008

But surely it would depend on position afterall tenerife is not a part of spain and has a dirty great mountain which causes torencial rain, not sure how you can judge the builders ability either ??

tiler

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