Tile Your World: John Bridge's New Tile Setting Book
by John P. Bridge
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Author: John P. BridgeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-12-20
ISBN: 0974275433
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Mistflower Press
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Book Review: Tile Your World a little disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Summary of Tile Your World: John Bridge's New Tile Setting Book
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.Crafts & Hobbies Books
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