So easy and relaxing compared to floor tiles...
OK - I have flat walls. But just to sit there, on a stool, with a coffee, a tub of BAL Greenstar, a box of tiles and a bag of spacers.
Splat, stick, stick, stick, splat, stick stick etc...
Time to stop - lid on adhesive and a quick wash off of the glue spreader, wipe the tiles and done.
I wish all jobs got such a great result from so little effort.
:->>>
The magnet has a boy end and and a girl end. Hmmm... The magnet is a Hermaphrodite.
One too many 'ands' there as well.
Needs work :)
I likes tiling too for exactly those reasons. Not keen on grouting, mind. I did consider taking up "arty" tiling as a profession but have never got round to it. Well, actually the missus wouldn't let me experiment on our walls...
Si
Erm, no radio or packet of biccies?
Owain
Owain wibbled on Wednesday 23 September 2009 21:49
Actually, yes, a bit of Radio 4 would be nice...
I just finished tiling in the kitchen last night; uneven walls, large tiles (that wont't fit the manual cutter, so must use the electric one outside, hence limiting the hour), numerous tiles with sockets or switched spurs in and one tile with a socket and a fused spur in it 20mm apart, only one spare tile without buying another box. All with three young children disrupting things and up against a deadline as guests arrive tomorrow night for a party - not relaxing at all!
SteveW
I'm surprised you had time to write *that*!
Domestic bliss British style. Everyone under the cosh
Steve Walker wibbled on Thursday 24 September 2009 10:13
You have my sympathies... That's why I'm sticking to small tiles for walls...
I have two sprogs, by I do have a sprog electromagnet (aka TV) installed in the next room.
The TV helps, but two of the three kids are of an age where they regularly need supplying with food and drink, one of them needs escorting to the toilet and the other needs nappy changes and feeding - usually at the most inopportune moments! Normally my wife could deal with them, keeping them out of my way, but she's spent the last two days in bed feeling somewhat ill.
SteveW
Steve Walker wibbled on Thursday 24 September 2009 19:53
You are so going to enjoy when the youngest turns 3 or 4 :)
I did...
Mix Keraquick... start to position Marmox... notice Keraquick is starting to go off... panic...!
Marmox has one other usage - Marmox-PIR-Plasterboard or Marmox-PIR- Marmox-Skim sandwich... cheaper than Proctor Aerogel stuff... thinner than PIR on wood batons that rot... avoids dot-n-dab risk of dew-point moving out of the wall into the dot-n-dab air gap... outperforms plain
50mm Marmox (XPS inferior to PIR).js.b1 wibbled on Thursday 24 September 2009 20:48
Yes - done that... I was advised to use Keraquick due to slight damp on the floor, but I could *really* do with something slower...
I got on better with Kerabond on a non dodgey floor.
That sounds a good recipe.
Oh yes! They're currently 6, 3 and 18 months. That's one of the perils of having to have them close together, but we didn't get married 'til late on (our first was born on our first wedding anniversary and we're into our mid-forties now).
SteveW
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