Tile Calculator

[Lefty38]

Well, I went to the store yesterday to purchase some tile,
but before I went I checked out my favorite tile site to see how much tile I would need. :confused:
Low and behold
My favorite site "Tile Your World" does not have a tile calculator!

I had to go to the dark side of the web and calculate my tile
quantities. :o

This site has everything, great info, great humor ...........
but no tile calculator.
I forgot to look in BBCamp's pocket protector to see if he had one in there!:D

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[tileguytodd]

Try this
LxWx.1285(divide)xH/.025x6%

OK??

[davem]

LxWx.1285(divide)xH/.025x6%

How about an example Todd? That went over my head. :)

Dave, pm me with the addy of the dark side calculator. ;)

[sdaniels7114]

Anyone else gettin' thirsty, looking at Lefty's avatar? I know this may be :topicoff: But I think Todd started it with his, "how to make newbies confused by tile estimating," post.

That has to be gibberish right?:confused:

[John Bridge]

Thanks for the suggestion, Lefty. What do you think about the big airplane company moving its headquarters to Texas? (Remember, I was born in Seattle.) :)

Dave M.,

I've seen these calculators all over the Internet. Should be child's play for a guy of your technical acumen to lift one. :D

[Lefty38]

John,
If they move the final assembly of the 7E7 to Texas
and I am lucky(?) enough to be sent down there.
I would have to come and see you to learn "Cowboy Hat etiquette :D

[flatfloor]

They are gonna build that big new plane they just got a contract for right here on L.I. We have a big ass runway on a site that Grumman shared with the Navy and lots of hangars and room to build more. That's where they built the Tomcats.

I will never forget the time I parked outside the fence to do some paper work when the biggest damn plane, a new 747, roared over my head, probably about 50' up, doing touch and gos.

[sdaniels7114]

Jim, didn't you mention that you had some flight time, recently? I meant to respond then; but, I slacked and the post disappeared into the past, ie: I was too lazy to look hard enough for it. :D I have a little over 2k hours in pistons up to a Piper Navaho. I worked as a flight instructor for a couple of years, talk about poverty. I know what you mean about seeing a big plane do touch and goes, if you ain't in the military, it's pretty rare. I had the opportunity to watch a brand new 767 do about 8 or so years ago when they expanded DAB's (Daytona Beach, Fl) second runway. I was told that they were certifing the new approach. It was almost as spectacular as when both the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels were booked for the same airshow at that same field. The show itself was nothing to write home about, but when those guys were practicin' the evening before, WOW!

[flatfloor]

No it wasn't me Steve I remember somebody did, maybe CX or Sonnie.

The only flyiing experience I've had was 5 minutes at the controls of a single engine Cessna, my Buddy's plane. we're flying over the Adirondacks and he says this baby can glide for 40 miles if the engine quits. I looked around and all I can see is trees and mountain tops. It looked to me like 200 miles of gliding MIGHT get us on the ground. :rolleyes:

[tileguytodd]

I Just wanted to see if anyone would really try to figure out that ficticious formula ....Got Ya!!! :D

This is the Mudbox afterall.......;)

[cx]

Ficticious formula? When I tried it, it worked fine. :confused:


Wasn't me spoke of any recent flight time. Got a pocket full of licenses, but ain't drove no airplane in years. And it's been even longer since I usta tell pilots where to go. :D

I got half (two thirds?) of a CFI rating many years ago, Steve. Then I got to thinkin' about all the instructors I'd flown with and all the BS they had to pewt up with and I says to myownself, "you really wanna do that?"

One of the few times I had sense enough to listen to myownself when myownself was makin' good sense. :p

And I've seen LOTS of touch-and-goes in my time. And waaaaaay too many of'em from inside the airplane. :rolleyes:

[Sonnie Layne]

Weren't me either.

My former bro in law was a fighter instructor in the AF. Had two planes of his own and I'd sometimes go up and fly a bit, but I never had the confidence or proper training for touchin' and goin'.

I remember the first 747 I saw in flight, too! It was beyond me how that thing could get off the ground.

[sdaniels7114]

Jim, unless you guys were using supplemental oxygen, your friend was off by about 25 miles, that's assuming you were around 10,000 feet up. Don't worry though, most times when pilots have to glide into the trees, the plane gets hung up, it tends to be a long wait, but most come out of it ok. That's if they fly it right, if they panic, well...

I saw that happen one time at a skydiving dropzone I used to frequent. The pilot and jumpmaster had just put out three students on static lines when they ran out of gas. They ended up about thirty feet in the air. Lucky for them the static line stays attatched to the plane after the jumper departs. They tied three of them together and repelled down.

CX, I know what you mean about miserable flight instructors. Its not their fault, however. The pay is pathetic for the tremendous effort you have to put out. I remember the day I tested for my CFI + CFII. The oral exam was THREE hours long and then TWO 2hour flights, in two separate airplanes. Saying that I was fried after that doesn't begin to do the experience justice. It wasn't with no pushover designated examiner who passes anyone that doesn't actually crash the airplane on the checkride, either. At the time, my flight school was the only school in the nation that was allowed to do instructor checkrides in house. They were sticklers. All in all, I'd say flight instructing is a great hobby, but undoable as a job.

[flatfloor]

Jim, unless you guys were using supplemental oxygen

We supplemented wth lots of things rarely oxygen. :D

[Sonnie Layne]

I'm with that, Jim.... my first trip LAX SYD (13 hours over Pacific), I drank all the red wine they had on board for coach. The attendants started robbing from 1st class, but it tasted like a strand of skunk hair dredged through a tank of diesel, so I had to switch to (hrummmpphhh) beer.

What is that to do with flying? you might axe???

Eight miles high...
and when you touch down,
You'll find that you´re
stranger than known

[Harry]

I used to do a lot of "touch and goes" when I was taking lessons a few years ago ..... but not usually on purpose. ;)

[John Bridge]

Happy Canada Day, Harry. :)