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6. Tips And Advice

6. Tips And Advice (Image 6 of 6)

Buy all the tiles you will need at one time if possible to avoid any differences between batches. Shuffle packs of natural or handmade tiles to ensure any colour or pattern differences are spread evenly over the floor.
If you want to form a pattern, draw a plan of the room on graph paper to make sure the pattern will look in proportion and symmetrical.
To tile a room which has to be used everyday, tile one half of the area at a time so you can still walk across the bare floor while the tile adhesive sets.
If you find you are working slowly and the adhesive is beginning to set, only spread around half a square metre at a time. It's essential the adhesive is still wet when the tiles are being fixed.

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cant understand your way of telling people how to tile floor.. lost with all the big words . you could say find the centre off room mark with chalk line , do a dry lay on one side to find your shortfalls at the edge and adjust chalk line to suite

Posted by allen8804 on 23/09/2009 01:36:14

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hi george, you should try to have pictures showing exactly what to do instead of stylish pictures and a long text.after reading instructions on how to lay tiles you are as lost as before you started. it all looks really preatty but not very helpful.

Posted by anna on 11/06/2009 21:15:48

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The difficuly I have had is cutting tiles to fit round wash basin/toilet bowl. There are no hints/ideas as to how to, for example make templates to do this or any other methods. I am finding this job particulaly difficult.

Posted by grimreaper on 26/05/2009 09:19:32

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