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Hello again

Well something has got me thinking again. Nearly finished putting down
my wetroom floor after hours of sweat (buckets of it), blood and very
nearly tears.

At least it should run away easily.

Anyway one thing occured to me, which maybe a stupid question, but how
are you supposed to tile a floor which is not level and has falls? I
purchased a shower tray which fixes to the joists and runs flush with
the floor which has falls built into it. After I have laid the tanking
membrane I plan to put electric UFH ontop and then tiles ontop of that.

Can anyone enlighten me, I'm assuming there is some special technique?

I tiled a small kitchen floor recently which was rather saucer
shaped -- 2" lower in the middle that around the walls. I didn't
do anything special for this, and it worked fine. However, one
thing I always do when tiling is to use the tile spacers in a
different way from what is intended. Instead of using a single
one inserted in the cross at the meeting of 4 tiles, I use 4 of
them, each with just one limb poked into each of the 4 gaps
between the tiles, and the rest sticking up above the floor like
little grave markers. This means I can do micro adjustments to
the spacing and make sure ajacent rows stay in sync. When the
tile adhesive is set, I pull the spacers out (the odd one snaps
off, but most come out complete).

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Andrew Gabriel