JOHN the TILER PROFESSIONAL FLOOR & WALL TILING
PROJECTS
Over the years tiling has become more involved as customers have increasingly interesting projects. Undertile Heating, wet rooms, different substrates all demand significant investment in preparation before the actual tiling begins. I have acquired significant experience in a variety of Projects a small selection which you will find below.
PROJECT 1
This was an old stone house with an additional built extension. The existing floors were battened on concrete with chipboard - not suitable for tiling. The solution was to remove the chipboard floor and battens and stick thick cement backed insulation boards seen going down in the first two photos. The client wanted electric Under Tile Heating, and this can be seen going down in the next two photos. [A suitably qualified electrician needs to make the final connection.] The wires are then covered with Ultraplan Renovation Screed before tiling and sealing.
PROJECT 2
This was a small toilet room with peeling lino. If the lino is well stuck you can stick on the lino tiles. But if the lino is loose it needs to come off. You are usually left with the black bituminuos adhesive. This needs to be skimmed with a specialist coating. As an extra precaution a matting was stuck down to prevent any possible leaching through to the pale tiles. The pattern was designed by myself. The art is to avoid any cutting in the main area and achieve a balanced pattern . This severely limits the options. Here I was able to ensure that the corner diamonds were the same colour. A lot of work, but extremely satisfying.
PROJECT 3
This was a whole house built with polystyrene blocks filled with concrete. Well the first problem is how to tile onto polystyrene. The walls had to be rendered with a specialist cement based coating, Mapetherm AR1 using a strengthening fibreglass mesh seen in the first photo. These were wet rooms so they needed to be tanked, you can see the tape being used in the second photo. Next a second coating and then the tiling. You will note in the last photo [taken before the final clean up] the dark blue tiles in the main field of cream tiles, this is to aid people withpoor eyesight to find taps, shower mixers and orientate themselves.
John the Tiler
PROFESSIONAL FLOOR & WALL TILING