Floor tiling 600x600 48m2
Hello, this is my first post here, but I have been doing some reading.
I am going to be tiling the whole ground floor of our house. We already have the tiles, they are Porcelain 600x600x7mm tiles.
See the picture below. This shows all the full tiles and cut tiles. I will start with the first tile at the mid point of the entrance to the kitchen and centre of the hallway (shown by the blue line). The floor currently has engineered wood floor boards (in most areas) on top of the original (10 year old house) block and beam concrete floor. The existing concrete floor is flat and sound. The kitchen area (with the bay window) has existing tiles which I'll remove, as does the downstairs loo (room under the stairs).
I have a few questions:
1. I'm assuming I don't need any matting (the existing tiles in the kitchen/downstairs loo don't have matting)
2. I'm confused by the notches I need in the trowel. With a 600x600 tile it seems that a 10mm notch is OK. Is that correct?
3. Adhesive choices are a minefield! Do I get quickset, or standard? We will be living in the house as the work is done so I'd imagine something that sets quicker would be ideal, but not essential. What are the pro's and con's?
4. I've going to get a manual cutter of the many straight cuts and use a grinder with a diamond disk for the tricker parts. Any reason to hire a wet cutter?
5. Any other advice?
6. I had a quote to do this job and it came in at over £3K just for labour - hence I'm doing it myself.
Thanks in advance!
Floor tiling 600x600 48m2 for the Original Article on Tiling Advice Forum
Hello, this is my first post here, but I have been doing some reading.
I am going to be tiling the whole ground floor of our house. We already have the tiles, they are Porcelain 600x600x7mm tiles.
See the picture below. This shows all the full tiles and cut tiles. I will start with the first tile at the mid point of the entrance to the kitchen and centre of the hallway (shown by the blue line). The floor currently has engineered wood floor boards (in most areas) on top of the original (10 year old house) block and beam concrete floor. The existing concrete floor is flat and sound. The kitchen area (with the bay window) has existing tiles which I'll remove, as does the downstairs loo (room under the stairs).
I have a few questions:
1. I'm assuming I don't need any matting (the existing tiles in the kitchen/downstairs loo don't have matting)
2. I'm confused by the notches I need in the trowel. With a 600x600 tile it seems that a 10mm notch is OK. Is that correct?
3. Adhesive choices are a minefield! Do I get quickset, or standard? We will be living in the house as the work is done so I'd imagine something that sets quicker would be ideal, but not essential. What are the pro's and con's?
4. I've going to get a manual cutter of the many straight cuts and use a grinder with a diamond disk for the tricker parts. Any reason to hire a wet cutter?
5. Any other advice?
6. I had a quote to do this job and it came in at over £3K just for labour - hence I'm doing it myself.
Thanks in advance!
Floor tiling 600x600 48m2 for the Original Article on Tiling Advice Forum
