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Re: tile thread/ making and glazing tile photos
« Reply #25 on: February 10, 2012, 05:28:00 PM »
Sometimes you gotta get creative Fiddy.   Is the floor that un-level at the toilet?  I just put the shower base in last week and the floor in that spot sloped 1/2 inch in the 48 inch length of the base.  I had to float the whole thing on a bed of mortar and then level it out. :)

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Re: tile thread/ making and glazing tile photos
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2012, 03:02:12 AM »
Sometimes you gotta get creative Fiddy.   Is the floor that un-level at the toilet?  I just put the shower base in last week and the floor in that spot sloped 1/2 inch in the 48 inch length of the base.  I had to float the whole thing on a bed of mortar and then level it out. :)

Uhhh, well at least make it look like someone with an art degree did it, that piece of paper . But anyway..

I remember the closet flange that had the 5" [junction"]  was kind of weird concrete behind the terlet, maybe sloped off a bit in all directions, including towards the sunken living room, and then the guy that got me started did the perimeter first  in that BR.  The place where it flowed away behind the toilet ate up a fair bit in thinset to somewhat level it and perhaps I had other cheaper things to level a floor with.  I hid a bunch of  tile 1/3's  there, the larger full pieces might have rocked back and forth a bit.

The Other larger tiles  in front ended up a bit proud of the the green brick tiles , hence setting the terlet with grout. It had it, pre mixed and even messing with plastic celophane  easiest and most purchased thing to use, and the cleanup was simple.   

In the Front hallway  I leveled the transition from the 1/2" thick unobtaniumtiles with plaster type floor leveler for the difference of thickness and it worked pretty well and set up quick.

Now if you want to do something like I've got here, and don't mind burning up saw blades and ear drums, I could tell you how I'd do it on that bathroom you are doing.  I say a guy who measures and scores and snaps tiles well diagonaly might do just as well without the saw and  tinitus, but I never had one of the things.

But in my honest  internet opinion is that either the big tiles corners are square to something and the little tiles are square to something different. Neither has to be square to the wall. I think that 4-6 or maybe 8" tiles are best for the small tiles, 12" or so for big and beyond that  the center of the room is'n't as important anymore because they DONT HAVE to have anything centered or squared other than the cuts  themselves.  When you realize that the common sense is to use a large full tile and use as much of it to cut around the door jamb, the first place your eyeball sees, and lay the rest of the pattern out on that.  The next piece should be at least a half of the smaller tile,

I used a lazer on laying out much of it, rarely used spacers, and it's not at all perfect, but I like it.

Some people say center of the room is an absolute point, and everything goes around it.  In some cases  it is  perfect, but I can see how the diagonal patterns with 60' x 30' ish ratios open things up changing the square walls of a dwelling.  Neither the large nor the small tiles have to be square to the walls, just slant it to where it might look better  since the shape of the room makes no perfect center.



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Re: tile thread/ making and glazing tile photos
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2012, 07:23:00 AM »
I would think a 45 degree angle would be the thing to strive for when setting a diagonal pattern.  And I'd start at the most visible wall to start on, considering the shape of that room.  But it looks good.  We did ours about 6 years ago.  I had a contractor friend come in, cause I didn't know how to do it. He let me help, and now I have a clue.  I ended up doing the repair when the fiberglass shower floor cracked last year.  Replaced it with cement and tile, so it won't crack again.  Being somewhat of a tool junkie, I used the repair as an excuse to buy a cheap tile wet saw.

You keep mentioning a slow computer.  Have you run "disc cleanup"?  This can go a long way to return some speed to a slowed down machine.  Follow this; hit the "start" button, then "accessories", then "system tools".  "Disc cleanup" should be there.  It may take some time to run it if it hasn't been done before.  Another way to do this is to download a free program called "CCleaner" from "Piroform", and run it regularly.
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Re: tile thread/ making and glazing tile photos
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2012, 12:57:05 PM »


You keep mentioning a slow computer.  Have you run "disc cleanup"?  This can go a long way to return some speed to a slowed down machine.  Follow this; hit the "start" button, then "accessories", then "system tools".  "Disc cleanup" should be there.  It may take some time to run it if it hasn't been done before.  Another way to do this is to download a free program called "CCleaner" from "Piroform", and run it regularly.

Actully I figured out google talk was repeatedly opening in some instances.  When I pulled up task manager the thing was running as many as 290 processes, mostly google talk instead of the usual 69-74.

I do the disc cleanups pretty regular.
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Re: tile thread/ making and glazing tile photos
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2012, 03:23:21 PM »
I would think a 45 degree angle would be the thing to strive for when setting a diagonal pattern. 

 Being somewhat of a tool junkie, I used the repair as an excuse to buy a cheap tile wet saw.


I found the ryobi at a pawn shop for pretty cheap. Works pretty good, but I think the pump is getting clogged up so I'll have to try to clean the lines.


45 degrees is generally what comes out with mixing 6" and 12" tiles, just the way it is, sort of.

Diagonal with same  size tiles all lines up straight, Just diagonal, and this is where the cheapie lazer line came in really handy. 

I guess I didn't take/post  any pice of the twin bath mostly same sized tiles. The tub surround had old yellow stuff, toilet seat matched so the whole terlet was re-used. It still gets paint and a bit more cleanup.  I  took the ADA ($129)  toilet back and used the old one. I Can't do this ALL for nothing AND out of my pocket!
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Re: tile thread/ making and glazing tile photos
« Reply #30 on: February 15, 2012, 01:13:40 AM »
Looks nice, rust.
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