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Tiling help / suggestions brick bond wall/hexagonal terracotta floor..

Hi frds,

Just finishing up a 5 week training course tiling and Ive got my first big job tiling 3 bathrooms and a Kitchen...bathrooms have brick bond rectagonal (is that a word?) ceramic tiles. I cant see any real difficulty in putting them up but any pointers you have would be appreciated.

Secondly the Kitchen floor has hexagonal terracotta tiles (v thick) apart from the sealing and re sealing (again and again!) is there any technique in the layout of these tiles or just treat as per normal square tile?

thanks for any suggestions...

TP2

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Permalink Reply by John Farrell on June 17, 2008 at 5:19pm: happy to stick in some feedback..did an interesting floor pattern today geo-metric style which I will put up on the site. Im not sure I would have setout how I was shown though..will provide more information once Ive got the photo up; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dave Carr on June 17, 2008 at 7:36pm: Sounds good John. What made you change careers?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Farrell on June 17, 2008 at 9:04pm: I had worked in the City (London) for 15 years...and decided to take 6 months off, unfortunately I couldnt get back into it in the role I wanted and really didnt want to go back to it in any case. So looked at doing a plumbing course but realised very quickly that Im no good with anything connected to water and actually liked tiling so if I could do a job I liked, and get paid for it, then happy days!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dave Carr on June 17, 2008 at 10:25pm: It's a good trade to be in, especially if you get to work with some of the nicer natural stones. It's surprising how quickly your skills develop with experience and always nice to stand back and think 'I created that'; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Farrell on June 18, 2008 at 2:35am: well Im looking forward to it, I want to specialise in victorian/geometric once ive done a few months on the ordinary and also concentrate on the natural stone too. Im already in touch with an NVQ training group just to get up to NVQ2 for 2010 as I believe it will become the standard.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dave Carr on June 18, 2008 at 6:22am: Victorian that stuffs a dream to look at, tough to work with. Got a lot around my way, I do quite a few repairs and restoration projects on the old Minton Hollins tiles.

Definitely a good earner :); ▶ Reply to This