Show Us YOUR Work Thread - Tilers Pictures

[Dave]

Edit May 2024: THIS is a New Show Us Your Work Thread for 2024 Onwards

This is the new Tilers Showcase Forum where we want new tiling work added, with each tiling job you complete having a thread of its own so people can see what kind of work you do, and potential customers can find your work

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I thought it was about time we had a thread dedicated to all members of Tilers forums to show us any work that they do.

Be it from installing a kitchen to garden decking. Show us your work! Get those pictures taken, but then do something with them! Actually add them to a thread and some facebook groups with your website link in them etc and it'll help spread the tile love.

If you have done a job then please do share it with us.

Pics are a MUST as what is the point of sharing a job without them..:smilewinkgrin:.

So if you do a job and you take a few pics then please do share it with us.

Lets make it a big thread for all to view and input in.

Thanks Dave ..

 

[EverDon Tiling]

Just thought i share some pics of the job I'm doing at the mo been one of them were note goes right everything was delivered late or damaged a lot more work than i quoted for but it was a fixed price, Took 14 days so far should be all finished by now but hey ho not long to go.

 

[ishi69]

Some top quality work on here lads.Heres a few pics of a past job and one I'm on now with 4 bathrooms. ps how can I resize my photos so I can post more of them as the files are to big.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Hi Mark, I do mine web large on microsoft office manager. I think there are a few ways to resize pics, sorry I could not get on that job with you, it sounded interesting, if you get stuck give me a ring, it would be good to meet up and work together.

 

[rainsco]

you can resize and edit photos with gimp. its like an open source photo shop clone. i like it a lot. GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

nice before-after photos and under progress photos here!

here some pics of my in progress projekts i worked unfortunately paralell. nothing of it is really finished:
first 3D grafics, then pictures


-small guest bathroom with jura limestone and a heated one peace stoneshowertray


-master bathroom with a big heated showertray. it was very difficult to fix because of the fittings of the heater on the right wall. i planed some integrated mirror cabinets.



small guest bathroom with 60x60 tiles



-a smal toilet room.



-here a project i have a little fear of it. i have to tile just the shower but outside the floor-screed gets just colorless coated. the tiles are 100x100 and i fits all to the full format



-and here is my favourite project at the moment. the customers came to me and told me they have selected some porcelain gres and white wash basins from alape in steel.
i made a alternativ planing and combined the face concrete with travertin, a massive travertin wash basin, an indirect luminous mirror, a drawer under the bench and a cabinet in oak.
all materials i like a lot.
the costumers agreed and i build a styropor prototype of the wash basin to show the scale in the room. fitting the basin was very difficult because i have to cut the floor screed and the wall afterwards to
recess the massive steel consoles. 6 people was needed to carry it on the place. another thing is to tank the shower to the faced concrete. i used schlüter kerdi fix to fix the sealing tape on the concrete.
i fix one downward for more overlapping and a second one direct on the wall.

 

[jonnyc]

this is all real class , very clean workmanship.
in fact all the work ive seen you post stands out as pure quality.
you should put one of these on the JOTM MAY even if not finished .
is that housing for cutter to stop spray from KARL DAHM TOOLS .
i know jura limestone is very popular in germany. Have you ever had problems with the grey oxidising and changing clour in areas that get more sunlight.
ive had a big problem last year.

 

[ishi69]

Hi Phil thanks for the info would be great to get on some work together, you've probably forgotten more than I know.

 

[jonnyc]

we all get old by the day and by the year we forget more and more , but the one thing i dont forget is the job ive done in a clients house.
i get clients phoning me regularily that might have moved house or doing more work in existing, ten years or more down the line.
maybe i am a sad case but given a location and name i could recall any job for last twenty years and how i did it.
what i cant remember is why i started writing this response in first place.

 

[rainsco]

thanks jonny, the wetbox is not from karl dahm. i know they sold such a cabin long time ago. i wanted to buy one at this time but it was imported from usa and they told me the manufaktor does not send any boxes anymore.
so i built this year a cabin myself. its a prototyp but it works very good. i can connect the welded steel rods without screws. i took the steel skeleton to a lorry foil builder and he made a waterproof and very tough cabin.
for my work its perfekt. it was a really problem on the building site for me because the jolly edges and self cutted brick design (i do very often!) does a lot of water spray! especially on big tiles when water runs down. now i´m the best friend of the parquet layer but i save the floor screed from any water.
next i offer a second foil to underlay. about 7x7m with the same quality and so i can work on a carpet in old buildings in future

edit.. until yet i have no problems with jura limestone. i have read in the "fliesen und platten" there was a projekt with problems. dark stains on the joints. the cause was the tilers didn´t age the adhesive. they bleach it with some finalit products when i remember right.

before - after


toilet room with self cuted brick tiles:

 

[jonnyc]

this is very interesting.
are you prepared to divulge the make and model of tile cutter.

 

[rainsco]

this is my small tile cutter. i use it very often. its very light and i combined it with the sack truck which fits perfekt. i can lift it myself on stairs and in seconds out of my car.
its not good quality but it works very fast especially for the jolly tiles.

can you read the pdf?
http://www.mitterbiller.de/Cut King 250.pdf

my big tile cutter which can normaly cut tiles with 90 lengh of edges
its better quality but its heavy and not perfekt in construktion.
Meistergold fahrbar


but i build a simple extension so i can cut 240 mm length on building site. i will take a foto next week because i need it for the 100x100 tiles.

 

[MakenaTile]

these are a few of my latest jobs. The last is obviously unfinished in those pics. It's an outside shower- curbless. I ran the stone floor up the wall to make the space look bigger- It worked. Was a pain to set the floor tho because the drain was just 3/4" lower than the wood deck that the stone butted up against where you step in. here's the mural finished

 

[DHTiling]

Awesome work makenatile.

 

[White Room]

Fantastic work Makena, what sort of tools do you use cut out for the leaves from the face tile..

 

[rainsco]

i like the entry mural.. very extraordinary in design and i never see things like this handcarved without a waterjet .

 

[jonnyc]

thanks for these links.
i will get in touch to see if ship to uk.
i need something strong , but simple and not too big for stone work in bathrooms and this first link could be answer .
i have other bigger cutters up to 1200mm ali manta italian , which are nice and light but the the legs have had it after only two years.
this meistergold fahrbahr looks good for transportation. do you have any problems with head moving and cutting offline as it is only sitting on a single rail.

 

[MakenaTile]

Fantastic work Makena, what sort of tools do you use cut out for the leaves from the face tile..

I use a Gemini Ring Saw.

However- I also do overlay murals- thin cut glued with epoxy to face of stone
paper thin yet 3D carved. Once the edge is grouted- your unable to tell that it's not cut in. The back of this turtle is from an 18"x18" piece of slate. Smaller turtles are made with a single piece of tile.

 

[MakenaTile]

well-I use a ring saw to cut the shapes out- and a Grinder to carve shape into it. On floors- has to be mostly flat- but on walls I like to do this the design is one I invented- the idea is there is no right side up- going in or out- it still looks like its facing the right way. It's my best invention! Works with bamboo as well.

 

[Olz]

Wow, that is amazing


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[MakenaTile]

this is the first multi-directional entry mural I made. All different shades of Travertine with slate flowers.

top view of the pink one. Its 8 ft wide!

 

[jonnyc]

heres is the a project that has just been finished.
new build using mixture or porcelain and mother of pearl mosaic.
impey deck tray and tanking.

 

[Dan]

View attachment 42500 this is the first multi-directional entry mural I made. All different shades of Travertine with slate flowers.

View attachment 42501 top view of the pink one. Its 8 ft wide!

Lovely stuff that is!

 

[DHTiling]

Really nice work there Janna, do you use a ring wetsaw for those pieces. ?

 

[MakenaTile]

Yes- a Gemini Revolution XT ring saw. A water jet would be nice for cutting out the basic shapes I carve- like turtles. Way too expensive tho. My ring saw is getting old and I'll be trying a different option when I replace it. The baring still blow out too fast on the Revolution.

Right now I'm trying to invent a way to carve the slate without so much dust mess. I no longer have a shop- I was thinking of either making a box like for sandblasting- with shop vac or fan clearing my view (seems unlikely to work) or even getting a generator and driving out somewhere the dust wont matter!

Any suggestions?

Thanks everyone for liking what I make

 

[MakenaTile]

for Jonnyc

Wow- that's clean looking- so different than I've seen where I'm from. I haven't done installing in California- but in Hawaii they're still into the rustic look. Is this the look the UK is into? It challenges my brain to try think of what kind of mural would look good in a bathroom like that. Modern abstract? lol

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Love the 3D Turtles.

 

[MakenaTile]

 

[rainsco]

hi jonny, nice projekt with cool design. what kind of material is the wall and floor in pic 4 and 5? kerlite? format? that looks superminimal. what kind of gout do you use when you have glas or anykind of mosaik in the shower? the way you use the rails is nice. it musn´t be always rondec or quadec.

about the saw´s.. the king cut is not good quality. this is my second machine. the engine is very weak. you must have a good diamond disk. i think 15mm material is enough and exceptionally you can cut 20mm if its limestone. but its a machine for daily use because its so light and the conversion to 45 grad is absolutely perfekt. i use it daily when i need clean edges. (skirting boards for example). in my dreams i let this machine built in good quality with high end light material. my actual strategy is to buy it new all 5 years.

the meistergold is heavy and good quality. the single rail is a high end profile with stainless steel tracks on both sides. i have a external 250cm rail for this machine and use it on a self built platform for long cuts. it cuts absolutly perfekt. you can get the machine in diffrent power. i have the small one and its enough for 30mm granite. the "fahrbar" is the best joice. i always work alone and its a good thing. but there are diffrent negative things. the machine sprays a lot and if you end a cut you are completly wet. the handle is not balanced. its terrible. i modified it! if you use the machine you know the manufacturer is no tiler. its a good mechanical ingeneer but nor man with practice. its to heavy for one person. the englhard machines are sold with other labels on karl dahm. the manufactur is not far away. one of the causes why i buy the machine was the same 45grad conversion as the king cut. the table moves a half and the rail. thats i need all the time because of the better sight to the edges.

 

[Spud]

Yes- a Gemini Revolution XT ring saw. A water jet would be nice for cutting out the basic shapes I carve- like turtles. Way too expensive tho. My ring saw is getting old and I'll be trying a different option when I replace it. The baring still blow out too fast on the Revolution.

Right now I'm trying to invent a way to carve the slate without so much dust mess. I no longer have a shop- I was thinking of either making a box like for sandblasting- with shop vac or fan clearing my view (seems unlikely to work) or even getting a generator and driving out somewhere the dust wont matter!

Any suggestions?

Thanks everyone for liking what I make

Diamond laser 5000 diamond band saw

 

[jonnyc]

thanks , rainsco very informative .
you speak like a true german with an eye for detail and preciscion engineering.
I need to look in to these cutters as i just want a really good, precision small cutter , that can do heavy work. there is so much on offer in uk but with little longevity.
BAM seems to stand out but they are big saws and very heavy. i gues you cant have every thing. norton were also great.
Ive been buying lightweight italian aluminium cutters for last few yaers but life span is a joke.

i wonder how many tilers realise that a very large proportion of the best tiling products derrivate from germany.
i may be a little biased as i used munchen as my living base for many years as i travelled foreign fields and i did so because this city was a place of such oportunity in so many ways and i wasnt even a tiler at this point.
I just dealt in other products that by dint of fact being german were easy to sell anywhere.
I worked recently for an old friend i used to play squash with , who i had not seen for years who was a ships engineer for many many years .
he then started a very sucessfull marine salvage consultancy and thats when we met again when he wanted i like to think precison work in his bathrooms.
he told me a very interesting story , in that wherever he travelled as ships engineer in world, he was never afforded the standing that he got in germany , where in times of old when you had to declare your profession in passport, being noted as an engineer gave him an immediate upgrade in a hotel in germany alone.
engineering a highly regarded profession .indeed tiling also.

 

[jonnyc]

this is the job i was trying to show a week ago on page 41.
i still cant upload the video to show how we did this but do have some pics from cleaning it this week.
it was laid 5b years ago.
explanation of how we did it on prevoius page posteda week ago