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[gueuzeman]

Brian- didn't I just see these picture in the TLS thread? You cross-posting spammer! Next thing you know, they'll be on facebook as well! Oh, that's right, they're there too!

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[ceramictec]

Lol, yeah. Since they are so big it's kinda uneventful so I thought I would get my use out of the pics

[Hamilton]

Jack, did you see my question to you a few post back?

Sorry, I did over look it. I dont worry about wicking because I install my own prefloat and shower pan liner. When done correctly gravity wins the fight. Thus the reason for the minimum of 10" of pan up the walls and 1/4" per foot fall for the liner. With a nice straightly pitched prefloat and pan the water is constantly being pulled down hill. While there may be some wicking, my experience over the years with demo and improperly built showers has confirmed not only the TCNA guidlines but my own confidence in just how well the system works.

[Stone Dude]

I posted the befores in the worst tile thread. some yahoos put a sealer on top of the marble, then danced in it aparantly.

I started the second of the two floors today, will finish tomorrow or friday.

[MICK1]

Very nice work!

Mick

[MICK1]

What kind of machine do you like for your refinishing? I used to have a Klindex with two different heads one for marble and one for granite.

Mick

[Stone Dude]

Mick I have several depending on what Im doing. I have a Hawk swing machine converted to 220, another Hawk thats 110 without the housing so I can switch between 13", 17" and 21" drive plates, and I have a 19" Cimex planetary converted to 220. I also have designed my own rigid setup for the cimex, but its still in testing stage.

this floor was a huge pain in the ass. they are arissed tiles. initially, the lippage didnt seem too bad untill I started grinding. 4 hours to flatten 60 square feet. I started the 150 foot bathroom today and brought the cimex in with a few hundred pounds on it. with 70 metals it took 4.5 hours, it was rediculous. but its flat and looks good, thats all I care about.

[MICK1]

Cimex is klindex right?! Wow you had a lot of lipage, reflection looks good.
Good job!

Mick

[Higher Standard Tile]

Brian- How much grout did it take for the shower walls? I'm guessing like 1 lb.

And it will probably take all of 10 minutes to grout.

See big tiles do make the job go faster.

[MarkTarkus]

I'm finally able to start tiling on my first kerdi board job after a few weeks of delays. This is some white pillowed edge marble that is a royal pain to install but I like working over the k board. Next week I'll start tiling my curbless k board master with linear drain.
I was able to squeeze in a few ez $ jobs in the meantime.

[Higher Standard Tile]

Mark, I'm still looking for the pictures of your easy $ jobs.

Nice work.

Had 5 sqft of the seashell tile left over from the accent wall. So they wanted to add a little around the mirror. But wasn't enough so they need 4 more sqft. (supposedly it is about $100 a ft)

Pretty cool mirror. Looks like a flat screen TV. The vanity slab is a backlit onyx with a 6cm laminated edge. I didn't do that. Leave that for the slab guys.

Had to show the glass door for the steam shower. With an etched hula girl. Steam shower has mood lighting and aromatherapy. And a Toto toilet that when you get close to it the lid raises automatically. Freaked me out at first.

When I found out what the toilet and accent tile cost I realized that my labor was a bargain.

[Stone Dude]

Mick, Klindex is Italian and Cimex is made by a company called Truvox, i believe they are in Sweden.

Klindex are more robust. My Cimex is a fixed planetary with floating heads only, thats why I made the rigid system. Hopefully I can have it produced for others.

there is a Klindex that is the same as the Cimex with fixed planetary. the Klindex tend to have 2.5-4hp+ motors while the Cimex is only two, but they do show you how to convert to 220 which helps tremendously for concrete and softer stones where the diamonds tend to grab and throw the breakers.

[MICK1]

The klindex are owned by two brothers, I bought mine directly from Italy and it came with a set of diamonds for both granite and marble , two interchangable head (blue for marble) 1000 rpm and the other yellow (granite )
2000 rpm, also I bought the heating plate for the final polish on granite (it is the bomb!) you right Cimex is Swedish or English. I paid for the entire set 12 k about 5 years ago, also I bought the buffing machine as well. Great tools and ...Fast. By the way on mind I had an electrician made me a plug for the dryer plug and an 50' extension cord worked great plug in to the dryer plug.

Good chat with you.

Mick

[gueuzeman]

Cameron- simply amazing!

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[JC]

Thats why I was asking Jack, I have seen a few mud showers that had rusted lath pretty high up on the wall...but they didn't do the pan correctly so it's hard to tell. I still think there should be some kinda wicking block put in..perhaps a little kerdi taped to the vertical liner and flapped onto the pan..then after wall dries thinset it to the mud wall...not sure gravity is stronger then wicking..traditional cbu only showers need to be sealed or left up off the pan.