Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Tiling after handover 6Feb 23, 2009 8:03 am Quote: There's nothing wrong with 2 different tiles meeting ie between living areas & powder rooms/laundries, but 2 different tiles in one area? Confused Is that what you mean ? Southies - Nope they are not in the same area - Powder room and laundry and bathrooms the builders would do Entry, family and kitchen and meals and upstairs living we want to do it after handover The tiles we really like is from a different supplier to what the builder uses Re: Tiling after handover 7Feb 23, 2009 8:05 am dinga i have polished porcelain in the bathrooms and they are not slippery, We've got them throughout our d/stairs living areas & they are slippery only when wet & when we walk around the house in socks . We have had a couple of adults slip & fall on the wet tiles, so one has to be careful obviously. From my experience living with them (rental) I would never have them, particularly in wet areas. But that's my situation only. Built the Eden Brae Cambridge 34 Family with Boston Corner Facade Re: Tiling after handover 8Feb 23, 2009 12:54 pm beegeers,
we had that dilemma when we were building. we found this very beautiful porcelain tiles in another tile store and really wanted to lay that on the ground floor of our house. problem was, our builder was supposed to do the tiling of all wet areas. i even had a thread about it, asking people of their ideas about two different tiles for our ground floor area (powder room would be tiled by our builder). what we did was to ask the builder to exclude the tiling of wet areas downstairs and do the upstairs wet areas only. then, we tiled the whole ground floor (excluding study and HT) after handover, using that porcelain tile. upstairs, our builder laid a different porcelain tiles. so my suggestion is, if you really like another porcelain tile that is outside the builder's range, then do all tiling after handover. this would mean though that you have to sign a waiver so your builder could apply for the Cert of Occupancy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Built the Nevada 42 Next project - landscaping! Re: Tiling after handover 9Feb 23, 2009 5:16 pm We will be having a similar situation as you, with the Wet area tiles not exactly matching the main area tiles. We went to a few tile shops and came up with the idea of putting a pattern tile in to join then, something like a pebble tile or the little glass square ones that you see everywhere now. Re: Tiling after handover 10Feb 24, 2009 6:08 am Quote: what we did was to ask the builder to exclude the tiling of wet areas downstairs and do the upstairs wet areas only. then, we tiled the whole ground floor (excluding study and HT) after handover, using that porcelain tile VJ - We have a shower in the powder downstairs and we are not very keen on the polished porcelain for the bathrooms. Polished porcelain seems slippery to us esp for bathrooms But is it comes to it we may do the same as you did. So the waive is for occupancy certificate - Anything else that would need to do? raw29983 - Thanks for that idea -Never thought of it - Would go back this week to see if we can get something Looking to tile the facade pillars rather than rendering. Builder is quoting 2500$ laying cost for upto 10msq. The 2 pillars come to be 16msq. So laying costs are 5000$… 0 7898 Hi, I'm clearing the tiles from our horrid 50 year old bathroom and preparing to lay new ones. Bugger of a job getting the old… 0 8195 4 14742 |