Have a look at this tiling video....

[Monsoon]

It's a promo for a product I was looking at, about 3/4 of the way thru the guy laying the floor is shown rapidly tiling. No spacers or significant adjustment of the tile ..... he just plonks them down perfect each time.

Are these special tiles? or
Is that how a professional floor in laid and the plastic spacers are for us DIYers?

Click on 'video' http://www.schluter.co.uk/produkt.aspx?doc=6-1-ditra.xml&pg=funktion

 

[Tozzy]

Are these special tiles? or
Is that how a professional floor in laid and the plastic spacers are for us DIYers?

They could be special universal tiles that have a slightly bevelled edge, allowing them to be butted together to leave a narrow grouting space. Also, the video could be cut at parts where he didn't manage to get it right first time . Noticeably in the video, the contractor moves in a confident and swift manner to demonstrate the ease and simplicity of their product they are promoting . It's a nice video. Pity there is no direct download link.

By the way, that wasn't cement he was using in the video was it?

 

[Monsoon]

There my kinda tiles!

By the way, that wasn't cement he was using in the video was it?

I've heard the term 'thin set' in relation to the type of adhesive used with the product, but that may be the material used to bed the membrane in,

 

[gcol]

Interesting stuff. Just a few observations:
What seals the joints between the sheets?
It looks like you'll be using a heck of a lot of adhesive and I'll be they recommend using flexible stuff which is more expensive.
He was laying the tiles "by rack of eye".
How he tiled the doorway was unforgivable (shown at the end of the video).
Isn't it nice when eveything has been cut to fit perfectly?
Thin set refers to powdered adhesive and is more of an American term. We (and mainly Moz) call it mud.

 

[masona]

Pity there is no direct download link.

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