DIY tiling???

wallbash

ask the tile place if they will take back excess you have bought

They should, or go some where else!

Must stress , planning is the key!:beer:
I have been known in the past to draw the tiles on the wall :eek:
This is help , if inserting , the occasional 'different' tile. The plan was a waist height border with the large areas 'broken' with patterned tile. ( honest it was better looking than my description ) :rolleyes:
So I marked on the wall where the occasional tile would be.
When your head is down and the tiles are jumping on the walls, its easy to miss the patten, til you step back.

andrew-b

Yes get about 10% more than you need and check you can take the excess back. I usually keep a box of tiles for spares (kitchen one's you can hide under the cabinets behind the plinths, bathroom ones under the bath!).

Uncut tiles generally your unlikely to break them (unless your stupid enough to drop them!), but it's the cuts where mistakes happen. When marking out a tile for a cut i now mark the position of the cut line in pencil on the back and then put a tick on the side i want to keep and cross on the side i don't - simple tip that can save a few mistakes

Another tip is don't throw your offcuts away until you've completely finished as you can often make use of them elsewhere - all helps to keep the cost down.

Also as well as checking there are no breakages and right number of tiles in each box, try and make sure your tiles all have the same batch number on the box. Don't use boxes of tiles one after the other but have half a dozen boxes on the go at once - take one tile from one box, one from the next and so on to mix them up - then any inconsistencies between boxes (or batches if you cant get same batch no) will get evened out across your tiling.

Andy

Optimisticpair

Bungarm2001 wrote: »

Tricky bits are as Andrewb has posted (terrific post mate )

Bungarm2001 wrote: »

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wrote a very good post too

Bungarm2001 wrote: »

I wouldn't touch lino laying in a bathroom...I'd end up tearing me hair out!!

I wondered too but in the past I've tiled my own bathroom and kitchen walls and floors. For bathroom lino I cut a cardboard box up and offered the straight edge to the bath leaving a margin for cutting the lino to size later. I made a template by cutting it bit by bit to fit around the pedestal basin bottom and then did the same for cutting out round the loo. Admittedly it was a small bathroom but it was easier than I thought it would be.

helping_hubby

Thanks Andy and Sloth. We bought the tiles yesterday...it turned out they were on offer (£10 a square mtr off the wall tiles) so they cost us £360 instead of £560 I'm so happy as these are tiles I love and was going to be buying at full price anyway. Just need to book a plumber now...