How not to tile

scot-canuck · Post by **scot-canuck** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:32 pm

How many facts can we pick with this video?

Marking the tile you leaving on the wall rather than marking the offcut
missing tiles on the right side edge

reginaldo · Post by **reginaldo** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 6:28 am

Nice to see them using a lady for the tiling. Make sure you get a man in especially to mix up the grout though.

haveagohero · Post by **haveagohero** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 4:39 pm

Grout in internal corners and join at tray, mosaics started directly off the tray and no expansion gap, notch on trowel too big so adhesive shows through grout lines, she says wait untill grout is dry and clean off excess, amount of mosaic showing outside screen different on both sides, tanking not finishing outside of cubicle

what a load of crap!

Wes · Post by **Wes** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 5:17 pm

In another video by Topps they show how to fix battens to a solid floor ready to fix ply to. Main point, 'drill through the batten and into the sub-floor, place raw plug into the hole, put batten in place and the screw into position in the pre drilled hole in the batten. Get this 'Now hit it home with a hammer'!!!!!! It's called a SCREW not a nail!

Please tell me nobody else does that?

Amazing some of these video's but saying that, some 'how to's' I've made are a little ropey

royaloakcarpentry · Post by **royaloakcarpentry** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:11 am

Those mosaic are fecking sh7t as you like. had the misfortune to use them and as per a lot of Topps mosaic, the sheets vary in size, can be out of square, poorly place mosaic that are touching one another.

Would be nice to maybe see the video explaing setting out and then applying the sheets from ceiling downwards and pinning each one as they went.

haveagohero · Post by **haveagohero** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:52 pm

Wes wrote:In another video by Topps they show how to fix battens to a solid floor ready to fix ply to. Main point, 'drill through the batten and into the sub-floor, place raw plug into the hole, put batten in place and the screw into position in the pre drilled hole in the batten. Get this 'Now hit it home with a hammer'!!!!!! It's called a SCREW not a nail!

Please tell me nobody else does that?

Amazing some of these video's but saying that, some 'how to's' I've made are a little ropey

Were they not hammer fixings?

Wes · Post by **Wes** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:59 pm

haveagohero wrote:Were they not hammer fixings?

I hope not, I gave them a right load of grief...Posted 4 comments one after another giving em a right telling off

I'll have to find that video and check...Although, I'm pretty sure they were just normal fixings...Dam! I'm definitely going to have to check

Wes · Post by **Wes** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:07 pm

Just checked and you're right...They were hammer fixings

I don't care, I'm taking my ball home

It was still a rubbish video with loads wrong with it, but saying that, mine aren't much better

I'm not going to put the video up here because it's out of context but here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_FWbUJE8N8

royaloakcarpentry · Post by **royaloakcarpentry** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:29 pm

WTF........so you batten a concrete floor then put sheet over the batten and then solid. Tawts (dyslexia again)

You batten the floor and direct fix onto those pmsl. If doing it that way instead of direct to the concrete/screed.

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