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Tile Your World: John Bridge's New Tile Setting Book
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As of November 2008 TILE YOUR WORLD is still the only available book that covers ceramic tile showers completely. A comprehensive and in-depth guide for amateur and professional ceramic tile setters. TILE YOUR WORLD takes the reader from the early history of the craft, all the way through to advanced residential tiling techniques. Projects range from kitchen and bathroom floors to custom tile shower installations. Kitchen counters and back splashes are also covered. TILE YOUR WORLD contains over 300 black and white photos and line drawings and 6 four-page color inserts. Eight appendices and a full index are included.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 738
EAN: 9780974275437
ISBN: 0974275433
Label: Mistflower Press
Manufacturer: Mistflower Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2003-12-20
Publisher: Mistflower Press
Studio: Mistflower Press
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Your Tile world; John Bridge's tile setting book -
I did a complete remodeling job on my bathroom after gutting everything down to the studs. This was my first major tile job using very costly tile. I searched the internet for tile setting books or videos. I purchased few books including John Bridge's; New Tile Setting Book. After reading the book once I never picked it up the book during my project again. The book is absolutly useless for a person who never tiled before.
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Tile Your World a little disappointing -
I ordered this book on the strength of the positive reviews. I'm doing an outside deck with expensive porcelein tiles, so I thought I'd read a manual. I've done tiling before and the jobs have come out fine and get compliments and have never cracked or popped a tile. I'm a little slow, but I don't pay myself by the hour.
So I wanted to know more about the actual process of tiling. Not the history of tile or the trade. And I know now John loves his mortar bed, but they invented backer booard to make tiling more accessible and that's why I'm reading the book.. I look at the pictures of people somehow doing a mortar bed in a big room, and only think, "yeah, right. That's an art and I'll never do that". I'm not doing a bathroom, so I'm not grading that portion of the book. I did carefully read every word up to that point in the book.
I thought the description of how to layout tile and snap chalk lines was very good. The discussion of isolation was also good, how you can make your tile job more resistant to changes to the substrate. What I didn't find was much on how to actually put the thin set down, when to back butter tiles, why you pick a trowel notch size (although John says he doesn't see the need for much beyond 1/4-3/8, he doesn't ever explain how to figure out what you should use from first principles), what are some tricks for swiping the thinset (I've always used straight trowel movement but the pictures show arcs), how you see your chalk lines after you've smeared over them with thinset, do you then scrape up all thinset right up to edge of placed tile(s)? I was also looking for some guidance on how to work out of multiple boxes... I've only done near identical tiles, and now I have tiles that are mixed and I don't know how to work out of multiple boxes or whether I should literally lay out 100% of the tiles and move them around by sight and then carefully stack them to the side...
And a real back breaker for me... even though everything I've seen or read (or done) says you hold the trowel at a 45 deg angle when making the ridges, John says 90 deg. Whew! Is that why he doesn't use a big notch on big tiles? He gets twice the thickness at 90 deg? If you do this, do you pull the trowel? This is so different than even the back of the thinset bags, it begged an explanation.
So the bood gives some good information on design and is worthwhile for that, but the stuff John probably forgot is harder for amateurs (if you can do a mortar bed, actually placing tiles must be like getting dressed) doesn't get covered in enough detail. Basically the problems you're dealing with when you out on your knees with boxes of tile piled about.
Black and white photos??... -
I finally recieved this item. It was damaged in transit (cover bent), but I overlooked this complaint for a while until I opened the book. "Tile Your World" was recommended to me for my project, so this is why I purchased it. But when I saw the bulk of black-and-white photos that you can hardly see (which were also small), I then wondered "is this for real?". It is awful-- only the finished jobs are in color. NO how-to book should have small instructional photos in black-and-white, and only invest in putting the finished product in color!!! If you are a new DIYer, please keep this in mind if you order this item. I don't know if I will keep this book-- especially if I can't see exactly what I need to do. I can read all the content I want, but if I can't match it to the photos, it becomes useless to me (and quite a stressful project).
THE best bath renovation book for the DIY'r!! -
If you're getting ready to do a bathroom renovation that includes putting in a new shower, you NEED this book. We are not new to major home renovation projects and I have done lots of tiling projects in the past, but this is our first shower build from the floor up. This book is not just about how to schlep mud on a wall and make the tile look pretty, but more importantly it goes into considerable detail about the crucial part - what's underneath and how to properly construct it. I've learned with each successive project that you have to think in terms of "3 steps down the road" - step A has to be done a certain way, otherwise later on when tackling step C or D, you run into problems. This book does just that. It's not your typical bathroom book (which are usually nothing more than a photo gallery of nice bathrooms telling you to hire a contractor to do the project). This book is for those of us who enjoy working with our hands and are up to a good challenge. The step-by-step instructions include lots of pictures and details even which order to tile the curb, niche, bench, etc. And yes, it also includes "pretty pictures" for inspiration!!
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Great book -
I purchased this book to try and advoid the pitfalls that would be encountered from doing a complete walk in tile shower and floor for a bathroom. I am happy to say that with the help of the book and the on line forums I easily accomplished the task with outstanding results. The guy installing the glass shower doors even said the job was better than most professionals he had to follow up. I guess that says a bit about the job but also about the info in the book. BTW - I had never done a tile job in my life up to this point so that is saying something.
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