I'll start with my wonderful world of tile.
My bathroom had this raunchy green ceramic tile - the kind you see on HGTV and yell, "WTF were they thinking?" I thought it would be good to rip the tile out and put something classic and timeless in. I decided on a nice white and black basketweave - totally gorgeous, imo.
The tile comes on .9 SF sheets that are webbed together. There were some areas along the side of the room that needed to be cut, so I measured everything out, marked the tile, went out to the tile saw and got busy.
And then it happened.
What I failed to realize was the adhesive used to attach the tiles to the webbing is water-based - I was using a wet saw. As I picked up the sheets of tile, they basically disintegrated into piles of loose tiles. Needless to say, I laid about 50% of my bathroom by hand as individual tiles.
What should have been maybe a 2 hour job turned into 7 hours, but at least I'm happy with it.
Here are some pics to put it into perspective:
A close up (the black tiles are 1/2" square)
The whole thing (or most of it at least)
Moral of the story - when working with tile sheets, separate and remove the individual tiles you need to cut.
My bathroom had this raunchy green ceramic tile - the kind you see on HGTV and yell, "WTF were they thinking?" I thought it would be good to rip the tile out and put something classic and timeless in. I decided on a nice white and black basketweave - totally gorgeous, imo.
The tile comes on .9 SF sheets that are webbed together. There were some areas along the side of the room that needed to be cut, so I measured everything out, marked the tile, went out to the tile saw and got busy.
And then it happened.
What I failed to realize was the adhesive used to attach the tiles to the webbing is water-based - I was using a wet saw. As I picked up the sheets of tile, they basically disintegrated into piles of loose tiles. Needless to say, I laid about 50% of my bathroom by hand as individual tiles.
What should have been maybe a 2 hour job turned into 7 hours, but at least I'm happy with it.
Here are some pics to put it into perspective:
A close up (the black tiles are 1/2" square)
The whole thing (or most of it at least)
Moral of the story - when working with tile sheets, separate and remove the individual tiles you need to cut.