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Setting Tile (Fine Homebuilding)

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Manufacturer: Taunton

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A beautiful tile job can make a room. And now with the help of this book and new, readily available materials, you can design and install your own tile floors, walls, countertops and shower stalls. All the up-to-date information you need is right here.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 698
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Taunton
Manufacturer: Taunton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 260
Publication Date: 1995-05-30
Publisher: Taunton
Release Date: 1995-05-30
Studio: Taunton


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Tile Your World: John Bridge's New Tile Setting Book
• Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great Results
• Working with Tile (Taunton's Build Like a Pro)
• Tiling Floors: with Michael Byrne (Fine Homebuilding DVD Workshop)
• Renovating a Bathroom (For Pros by Pros Series)


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Helpful books for the beginner -
This book was very helpful for the individual that wants to try to lay tile for the first time. It illustrates the techniques well and makes the process easy. I would recommend it highly.

Tile like a master -
This is a great book for learning to set tile. Don't rely on the info from your local hardware store... Get this book and learn how to do it right!

Setting Tile -
Excellent book apparently. I got a copy for a friend who is tiling her bathroom. She thought it was a wonderful and informative publication and a must for anyone who is doing something of this nature.

Great book for me - Novice/JOAT -
We recently built our new home & I used this book & Tile Your World to do all the tile work. One of our best & proudest features is the masterbath I built with lg garden tub and oversized corner dual head shower with dual niche all tiled together - We love it. I can't believe I was able to do it all with friends & family and alot of sweat/work.

Saved thousands over best few estimates. I see why the labor is so pricy now....

Recommend both books.

Michael Byrnes's Work is Excellent -
Michael Byrne's work in both his book "Setting Tile" and his DVD "Tiling Floors with Michael Byrne" are excellent resources for beginners, and were I an experienced tile setter, I would say so for those folks, too.

As a complete novice I recently completed my first tile project, re-doing my bathroom, some 50 square feet. In my opinion it turned out very well considering it was a first time effort. I relied heavily on Mr. Byrnes's works. That would be small by most accounts, but let me assure you, for me, it was large. I am in the process of doing another 500 square feet of work on a plywood substrate. After that I have another 500 feet downstairs on a concrete slab to do.

He makes it simple for anyone to understand. These works will remain life-long resources in my personal library.

While it is not possible to cover everything in any works like these, some areas I would suggest for improvement are some more clarification on areas around door jams in terms of doing the tiling around those, trimming them. More information on toilet removal and installation would have been helpful. The toilet borders on plumbing and that is a subject unto itself though. One more area that would be helpful is the area of cementitious backerboard. There are several kinds on the market and each has its own idiosyncracies.

But if one is considering undertaking a project like this, you can always rely on Amazon.com for additional material.

Works by Taunton Press, the publisher of these media are also recommended. But again, no one resource can be everything. And finally, there is no substitute to finding reliable people to talk things through.

Again, I rate Mr. Byrnes's work as 5 Star.

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