Using quarry tiles of different thickness

[tapir]

Hi
We are planning to lay quarry tiles in our kitchen. We will be using two types of tile - the main type is a uniform colour, the other will be the odd tile that has discolouration, just to break up the colouring on the floor. the discoloured tiles are 12.5mm thick, however we can get the main tiles in both 10mm and 12.5mm. We are also laying underfloor heating, so my question is, would it be a problem to use tiles of different thickness? We will not be laying the tiles ourselves, but need to know as we are buying the tiles

Cheers

 

[joe-90]

Not really a problem as they are bedded from above, the thinner ones won't be pushed as hard into the adhesive. However, it's easier if you can get the same thickness.


joe

 

[Moz]

tapir

it will be hard going as your using different levels of thinset an thickset ...
any decent tiler should sort you a same spec tiles out ...if you want it on the cheap get them but you will lose in getting a good tilers rate, longer time laying them ...lol

 

[tapir]

thanks for the quick response, I appreciate your help! Things have changed slightly now, we're going for uniform thickness tiles, and have decided to lay them ourselves. If we balls it up, we can attribute it to 'the character of the old house' and chuck an obscene amount of soot over the tiles to cover our tracks

thanks again

/t