Well the tiling’s almost completed. The floors all done even though I could have done with one more tile. I had to use a coupe of off cuts under the washing machine to fill the gap. If anyone wants to pull it out, point to the floor and call me a rank amateur, we can go outside and discuss it……..
The big tiling machine I had on load from County tiles in Salisbury did not do the job. It kept shearing off the tile and not following the score line down properly. I did three separate cuts but I had no confidence in its actual ability to produce a consistent cut. The tiles were around £55 per sq. m2 so I wasn’t prepared to wreck any more tiles. I took it back to the shop who said “fair enough” and gave me a full refund. Bearing in mind that they had to get it in from another place I think that this was dead fair of them.
I ended up cutting all the tiles by hand using my trusty Erebaur tile saw with the correct diamond blade. This was a long and tricky job running the tiles length-ways but the overall outcome was perfect.
The tile shop said that although the catalog referred to matching bullnose edge tiles to match the floor ones, no one in UK could get them. Not having that. Decided to contact the manufacturer of the tiles in Italy. It turns out that the skirting tiles are available so we put in an order for 13 m to finish the room off. These should be with us in mid September, so it’ll be back on by recently wrecked knees again on the kitchen floor.
Put the new sliding door back into the wall and rebuilt the door jamb and architrave. Painted both door frames.
Replaced the light pendents.
