My wife went away last week with the children for a break, not too far away but it gave me the perfect opportunity to get on and paint the kitchen units and also to rub down and re-treat the worktops.
I started with the worktops as I knew this was going to be the messiest part and I was right! I did my my best but there was dust pretty much everywhere, I was not impressed as I was going to be the one to have to clean up too. It gave me an excuse to stop and have a cup of tea though while the dust settled.
20 mins later, I was ready to go again, yes yes long time for a cup of tea I know, but next in my sequence was to paint the wall units, my theory being that if I dripped any paint onto the worktop it would not ruin my freshly oiled surface!
It isnt a big kitchen so it didnt take very long to do, next, 1st coat of danish oil onto the worktop, wow, I was quite shocked at how, in areas the oil got sucked straight into the wood.
Next, paint the floor units, apparently the Danish oil needs about 5 hrs between coats, anyways, I started on the base units, 3rd door along, oh pants! I knocked the 3/4 full tin of paint over, how far does that go, I could not beleive it. Panic Panic, kitchen roll, rags, cloths, spatulas to try and rescue the paint, it really was a nightmare. 40 minutes later, I kid you not you would not have known there had been such an horrendous spillage! Fortunlately we have floor tiles and we could clean it up, but anything else and the floor would have been totally ruined!
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Floor Tile Tip
When choosing your floor tiles for home, it is worth while making the decision if you are intending to get a professional tiler in or are going to do it yourself. Even if your room is large, and it may look quite straightforward, check doorways and other other areas around the edge of your room, obstacles such as pipes that may be coming up for radiators or, architrave around doors all need to be thought of.
There are different ways to get around such a problem as skirtings or architraves when tileing your floor, one is you can take them off, and replace or renew them, much easier from a tiling perspective, but obviously more expensive, and then the decorating. Or you can cut the tiles to fit around the architraves, this is possible and most professional tilers are used to doing this, but it is much more tricky for a DIY person. There are also tools that you can use to cut the bottom of the architrave off, this is a good way to do it as you can slide the floor tile underneath the cut piece of architrave making it less important to get an accurate and good quality cut, just make sure you dont take too much off and leave a large gap to fill!
These methods, whether a DIY or professional tiler, are so much easier to do with a ceramic tile over a porcelain tile. Porcelain tiles are often a larger format, and more durable. But to achieve this they are much harder, and normally thicker than a ceramic tile. All well and good, but, just be aware that the cutting and drilling of porcelain tiles is considerably harder, and will most likely require a professional manual cutter such as Rubi or a small electric cutter, and drill bits can be used and burnt up if the correct bits and styles are not used. These tools are available from Tileclick.
There are different ways to get around such a problem as skirtings or architraves when tileing your floor, one is you can take them off, and replace or renew them, much easier from a tiling perspective, but obviously more expensive, and then the decorating. Or you can cut the tiles to fit around the architraves, this is possible and most professional tilers are used to doing this, but it is much more tricky for a DIY person. There are also tools that you can use to cut the bottom of the architrave off, this is a good way to do it as you can slide the floor tile underneath the cut piece of architrave making it less important to get an accurate and good quality cut, just make sure you dont take too much off and leave a large gap to fill!
These methods, whether a DIY or professional tiler, are so much easier to do with a ceramic tile over a porcelain tile. Porcelain tiles are often a larger format, and more durable. But to achieve this they are much harder, and normally thicker than a ceramic tile. All well and good, but, just be aware that the cutting and drilling of porcelain tiles is considerably harder, and will most likely require a professional manual cutter such as Rubi or a small electric cutter, and drill bits can be used and burnt up if the correct bits and styles are not used. These tools are available from Tileclick.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Floor Tiles
In dealing with today's demands for living, it is often a major consideration to get the floor finishing right!
There are an abundance of wooden, ceramic, stone, vinyl carpets etc etc to choose from, and ultimately we all want good value for money (cheap to most people), stylish, and durable. With technology advancing some carpets are really improving in being more durable for floors, and some vinyl tiles such as Amtico look great and more durable, but having use Amtico in the past, and been really please with how they look, but with a dog and two little ones, at main access points such as the back door, whilst the appearance wasn't really effected - the surface did get scratched.
So to get what we really wanted, we went back to ceramic, porcelain or stone. One of the best ranges not only in styles, but in price we found on the Tileclick Web Site www.tileclick.co.uk. We went to their floor tile range of tiles pretty easily and had a really good look around. We were able to get a pretty good idea of what was available just from the images. We ordered two lots of samples, 3 tiles per sample order that only cost £4.99 inc vat, which were delivered by a courier company a couple of days later.
We were then able to lay the sample floor tiles out on the floor of our kitchen and hallway, and then through to the bathroom. One advantage we found that this gave us was we could leave them trough the day and night and really get a good perspective of their appearance in natural light and artificial light, and one of the floor tiles really showed up differently in different light.
We moved all the floor tiles around into different parts of the room to get the best variation of light shadings within the room, and two days later were ready to make our choice.
Back to the web and to tileclick's website, which I must say is probably one of the best website i have actually purchased from - easy to use, great selection of floor tiles, aswell as bathroom tiles, kitchen tiles, tiles by designers such as Laura Ashley and Wayne Hemingway that I didnt even know existed. 5 minutes later we had bought and paid for our tiles, and 3 days later they were here. We are just waiting for the kithcen fitters to arrive, and cant wait to get the job done.
There are an abundance of wooden, ceramic, stone, vinyl carpets etc etc to choose from, and ultimately we all want good value for money (cheap to most people), stylish, and durable. With technology advancing some carpets are really improving in being more durable for floors, and some vinyl tiles such as Amtico look great and more durable, but having use Amtico in the past, and been really please with how they look, but with a dog and two little ones, at main access points such as the back door, whilst the appearance wasn't really effected - the surface did get scratched.
So to get what we really wanted, we went back to ceramic, porcelain or stone. One of the best ranges not only in styles, but in price we found on the Tileclick Web Site www.tileclick.co.uk. We went to their floor tile range of tiles pretty easily and had a really good look around. We were able to get a pretty good idea of what was available just from the images. We ordered two lots of samples, 3 tiles per sample order that only cost £4.99 inc vat, which were delivered by a courier company a couple of days later.
We were then able to lay the sample floor tiles out on the floor of our kitchen and hallway, and then through to the bathroom. One advantage we found that this gave us was we could leave them trough the day and night and really get a good perspective of their appearance in natural light and artificial light, and one of the floor tiles really showed up differently in different light.
We moved all the floor tiles around into different parts of the room to get the best variation of light shadings within the room, and two days later were ready to make our choice.
Back to the web and to tileclick's website, which I must say is probably one of the best website i have actually purchased from - easy to use, great selection of floor tiles, aswell as bathroom tiles, kitchen tiles, tiles by designers such as Laura Ashley and Wayne Hemingway that I didnt even know existed. 5 minutes later we had bought and paid for our tiles, and 3 days later they were here. We are just waiting for the kithcen fitters to arrive, and cant wait to get the job done.
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