Does tiling require skill?

With complex rooms - or old ones where the walls ain't square, it's sometimes impossible to avoid 'slivers' in places. This is where an electric cutter comes into its own.

Absolutely. And a simple draw prog on the computer can be very useful for this.

It is with cold water, but easy with hot. Found a neat way yesterday to avoid those big L shaped cuts round doors etc. Just score and snap the 2 sections from the same tile. Even I couldn't see the joins, and I was looking for them. It also overcomes the problem that walls never seem to be flat around door frames and it gives you a bit of leeway in correcting the levels.

Try it with a dark tile i.e. Navy Blue, Black, Red etc, you'll sure notice it then!

John

In article , stuart noble

Just a note from the original poster to thank everyone for their advice. I have decided in view of this to employ a professional tiler, and dock the expense from my wife's housekeeping money.

Or complex shapes like this:

------+ / | / | / | / | / A------------+ / | / | / | | | | | +---------------+

The distance from corner A to the diagonal was about 3/8". Now fitted all in one piece and only one was cut.