Here’s a coupla pics of a really nice tile job I finished.
Off white tile with almond grout … and light gren tiles below the off white border tiles … all make for a tile job that’s hard to photograph. Looks pretty stunning in person … looks pretty “blah” in the pics.
At least the customers are thrilled!
Not my design btw … just my labor.
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
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Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
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Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I'm starting to appreciate the swanstone shower bases more.
I'm so use to doing custom and odd-fit work (mud bases) that I was against the idea at first ... But I can see the logic when a standard size "premade" pan can fit ...
nice to set one quick and tile to it.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Nice work! What size is that base?I doubt I'll ever understand the need for 5 different tiles in a shower, but your execution makes it work.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski
the base was 60w x 32d I believe.
Swanstone.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Nice job Jeff, nice & clean. Did it all layout to full height tiles up to the top or did you have to cut the top row a bit? Almost looks like it is all full height
yeah ... we laid it out to hit a hair less than a full tile at the top.
was originally to have a couple more on the bottom and one less on the top ...
changed things around a coupla times to get it close.
as luck would have it ... I was able to "squish" the glass stuff and tuck in a full tile at the top.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Jeff:
10/4 on the bases. I just used a Zimmer Marble base 4X7 for a custom walk in shower. Worked great. I've also used a Marblelite base. Also nice.
Great looking job man.
nailer01
Nice work Jeff.
I got a question for you. A customer of mine is having a shower reglazed and wants tile put over the old tile floor which is mosaic (sp?) set in mud. A friend of mine said Superflex thinset will hold it no problem. Have you ever tried this?
Jeremy
Headstong, I'll take on anyone!
tile over tile ... not a problem with a good base.
Mapei has lotsa new stuff out. Check there website ... they'll have a coupla options.
I'd go overkill for the most bullet proof. Probably one of their thinsets with their admix. I can't even remember which combo I used last time ...
mighta been kerabond/keralastic, but don't quote me on that. I got what ever my tile store counter guy recommended ...
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Nice straight work Jeff. What the hell are you doing up so late?
On the back wall with the subway tile................wouldn't you have been better of shifting the layout off center so you didin't end up with the tiny cuts at the ends? I know that a good portion of the cut is hiding. But do you think it would have been any easier.
And before you think I am being critical, I'll tell you why I ask. I get soooo hung up on symetry (sp) when doing layout as I can see you did as well. I working on throwing away the neurosis and just letting thing lay out a bit easier.
Good job, and it IS refreshing once in a while to see a non mud base.
E
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Obviously he started dead center. Had he spaced the tiles another 16th of an inch he probably wouldn't have had those little tiles on the ends but that happens to all of us. Its always "after" its done that you say..." I shoulda...". I hate when that happens to me all too much. I end up thinking I should have done the rear wall first so the end walls would have covered the back wall or visa vesa and had cut tiles hidden behind the shower enclosure frame..or or or or.
In Japanese designs they allegedly have the archy lay out all the rooms so there's no waste "at all" for all finished materials...to the millimeter. ...That'd be a blessing but then again little idiosyncrasies can often lead to a lot of character and new ideas..
I'm just dissapointed in Jeff for not having a naked chick in the shower posing..<!----><!---->
Nice job Jeffrey...You installing the shower enclosure too?<!----><!---->
I gave the guy who drew it up the option ...
either we shift the running bond a half of a half .... to get rid of those slivers ...
or ... I set the bottom at the halfway mark so the top tiles line up.
Look at the top row of the bottom ... and the bottom row of the top?
the tiles right above/below that fancy border stuff.
I can sleep at nite because the side walls make for a decent "full wrap" effect. Lucked out to the illusion of a full tile turning the bend. I actually had it all laid out for the off center and no sliver look ... decided to throw out the alternative just cause we were all there ...
The grout lines were under strict orders to be small as possible by the powers above.
I have better pics in the camera at the moment ... took some in full light with no flash ... hope they gon't wash out as much ... it really looks lotsa better in person ... thinking the new no flash pics will show it better.
too late to fight with the camera tonight.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I thought the pics look fine. It's nice to know that there are guys who still give a shid about the details.
Nice work Jeff.
Eric[email protected]
It's Never Too Late To Become What You Might Have Been
Jeff, how many hours to set the board, set the tile, grout, caulk, etc.?
Nice job! I noticed the light looks like it's mounted in the shower area? I might need something like that. Where do you get one?
None of my business, but the light looks like a Panasonic FV-11VOL3 Fan/lite Combo. I get them at Welker-McKee ( a wholesale plumbing supply house)in Cleveland
Edited 2/19/2006 3:02 pm ET by chascomp