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Hi there. I've been reading this forum for the last few weeks and found some excellent advice so thought I'd finally introduce myself.
I did an Able Skills training course last month which I thought was really good and it's given me the confidence to tackle my own project (although I'm sure I'll run into problems along the way). I've got approx 30 sq metres of kitchen/breakfast room and hallway floor to tile. It will have been gutted, replastered, and the existing floor tiles removed and then re-screeded so I've got a pretty blank canvas - no units, skirting or architrave to worry about. I read the pros/cons of tiling before or after fitting a kitchen and decided that although it's more initial outlay for the tiles, I save in terms of potentially tricky cuts around the base units.
I've chosen the 30 x 30 Cora Terracotta tiles from Topps Tiles with the wavy edges. Again from reading this forum it seems that using your eyes rather than spacers is the best way to lay these. Would you still advocate this for a novice tiler?
Adhesive/grout wise I'm going for BAL professional adhesive and wide joint grout. We didn't touch much on primers on the course except to say that I need to prime. I guess the standard BAL primer will do me?
The main bit I'm uncertain of at the moment is the door thresholds. Are they fixed to the floor with normal adhesive? Also 1 edge of the tiles will come to the bottom of some already carpeted stairs. How do you make that tidy?
That's it for now. Thanks in advance for all the other questions I'll be asking over the next couple of weeks!
cheers
I did an Able Skills training course last month which I thought was really good and it's given me the confidence to tackle my own project (although I'm sure I'll run into problems along the way). I've got approx 30 sq metres of kitchen/breakfast room and hallway floor to tile. It will have been gutted, replastered, and the existing floor tiles removed and then re-screeded so I've got a pretty blank canvas - no units, skirting or architrave to worry about. I read the pros/cons of tiling before or after fitting a kitchen and decided that although it's more initial outlay for the tiles, I save in terms of potentially tricky cuts around the base units.
I've chosen the 30 x 30 Cora Terracotta tiles from Topps Tiles with the wavy edges. Again from reading this forum it seems that using your eyes rather than spacers is the best way to lay these. Would you still advocate this for a novice tiler?
Adhesive/grout wise I'm going for BAL professional adhesive and wide joint grout. We didn't touch much on primers on the course except to say that I need to prime. I guess the standard BAL primer will do me?
The main bit I'm uncertain of at the moment is the door thresholds. Are they fixed to the floor with normal adhesive? Also 1 edge of the tiles will come to the bottom of some already carpeted stairs. How do you make that tidy?
That's it for now. Thanks in advance for all the other questions I'll be asking over the next couple of weeks!
cheers
