Thread: Off we go ! Our little home construction in deep Issan

Looking good Nige.....almost there. Are you going to put a cement border around the base of the house or let the walls go straight to the ground ?

Cheers BY ,, we are going to have a 800mm wide path all around if that's what you mean

Bit more tiling

Coming on fast and strong. Congratulations again to nigelandjan.

Very nice indeed...

Look forward to seeing the paint going on and furniture moving in. It is very nice, I should imagine, to have a nice little house complete and paid for...

Love those tiles Nige, but it will be tough spotting the mossies in their favourite dank place in the house. Time for some neons

Well all the windows have built in mozzie screens so should help . If any do get in I'm sure they'll find me

Coming along nicely N&J.

I like the wall/floor tiles are they ceramic or natural stone?

Looking great Nig, when are the house warming / Christmas party in invitations being issued ?

Sorry, but a proper tiler doesn't leave thin slivers of tiles in a corner. You balance the layout so there's approximately half a tile at each end.

Sorry but as you cannot see the other end in either shot I fail to see how you come to that assumption.

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Sorry but as you cannot see the other end in either shot I fail to see how you come to that assumption.

He is right and you only need to see the right end to know that it is not a planned tiling. Not planning and not doing the maths is common here, I have the same ugly look on some of my floors and for the same reason.
It is an eyesore which will catch your attention every time you enter the room now that you've been made aware of it..

You have approximately 20% of a tile on the right side, the correct way of doing it is to add those 20% to the 100% of a full tile and split the result in 2.
60% of a tile on the left side, 60% on the right side.

Originally Posted by lom

It is an eyesore which will catch your attention every time you enter the room now

cant really say i've eyed from left to right which tile was wider than the one the other side of the room.
Do you miss the bowl much Lom ?

If Nigel and his better half is happy, then that's all that matters. It's a nice little place, as they want. Thanks for all the pics Nigel, congrats !!

Steve

^ what he said...

Originally Posted by BigRed

Sorry, but a proper tiler doesn't leave thin slivers of tiles in a corner. You balance the layout so there's approximately half a tile at each end.

Originally Posted by lom

He is right and you only need to see the right end to know that it is not a planned tiling. Not planning and not doing the maths is common here, I have the same ugly look on some of my floors and for the same reason.

Sorry bro but they are right about the tiles, but hey this is asia and who cares.Well done, I have been in the building game for forty years and I have built nothing in my country, cambodia.

Originally Posted by BigRed

Sorry, but a proper tiler doesn't leave thin slivers of tiles in a corner. You balance the layout so there's approximately half a tile at each end.

Originally Posted by lom

He is right

Originally Posted by cambtek

Sorry bro but they are right about the tiles

everything looking good so far Nige but they's right.
Tell said fvcker to pop em off and redo (they won't break - just half a day's correction work)

Can we have some pictures on here from the tile experts of they're perfect bathrooms please?

True

Originally Posted by cambtek

Sorry bro but they are right about the tiles, but hey this is asia and who cares.

They very rarely know how to tile

But if you are happy...

Originally Posted by helge

True

Originally Posted by cambtek

Sorry bro but they are right about the tiles, but hey this is asia and who cares.

They very rarely know how to tile

But if you are happy...

its the tiling police lol experts pmsl .. the guys happy

I know

No need to get grumpy though

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

everything looking good so far Nige but they's right. Tell said fvcker to pop em off and redo (they won't break - just half a day's correction work)

Well said, and more helpful than me just saying they are wrong. When my tiler in the UK left my floor half finished like that I took them all up and left him a note. He still screwed it up because the panels he used for the floor weren't thick enough, flexed, and cracked the tiles.

Well thanks for all the advice on tiles, I will take all this on board when we buy our palace ( sorry place ) in Cha am, , in the meantime these tiles will do very nicely for our little occasional home in the out backs.

If I get chance today I will post a pic up of what we have to use now, even a man with no sight will have to agree the new place is better, despite that ( awful ) tiling.