Laying quarry tiles

[skier-hughes]

I've had to lift a few tiles in order to remove some piping to two raiators we are removing. These were laid using cement mortar by the looks of it.

What is the best material for relaying them and the odd tile which is loose?

Lime Mortar?

What sort of Lime?

What sort of mix?

Under the cement there is plenty of sand.

Something else entirely?

These tiles are not that old, probably put down when the previous previous owners did some "remedial" work to the property in the 40/50's.



While I'm on about tiles, our kitchen window sill is made from the same quarry tiles, but they have a rounded edge. I've looked for some around, but can't find any. Should I just use my wet grinding wheel to smooth an edge down on a spare one?
I need some to match up where we are installing a new window.

Should I look at another product entirely for the inner sill?

I don't have anything original to go by.

Graham

 

[skier-hughes]

Any ideas on this one?

My googling has only brought up lots of modern techniques :twisted:

Graham

 

[David Q]

Old quarry tiles seem to have been laid on a mix of lime and either ash or sand. Mine appear to be ash. This makes life a bit difficult when resetting them. Lime and sand would be fine however you will not be able to walk on them for weeks. Look at the Dennis of Ruabon website for different tiles - they may have what you want otherwise try your nearest reclamation yard. Normal quarries are fairly cheap. The rounded edge ones may be harder to find - but I have seen them. Salvo does have a facility to place requests to all their yards, try this.

 

[skier-hughes]

I have plenty of tiles, just don't know how best to resit the ones we had to take up. Only a dozen, and most are out of the way, but some go across a doorway.

Graham

 

[Mark]

our kitchen window sill is made from the same quarry tiles, but they have a rounded edge. I've looked for some around, but can't find any. Should I just use my wet grinding wheel to smooth an edge down on a spare one?
I need some to match up where we are installing a new window.

 

[skier-hughes]

I was talking about the normal flat ones and forgot about the round edged ones.

Graham

 

[skier-hughes]

Being the fast worker that I am, I am now ina position to attempt the relaying of the tiles, having cleaned up the old ones, removed the cement fixing and taken up the loose ones.

Final question, is the sand/lime mix going down
1. Dry
2. Damp
3. Wet

In this weather the sand that the sand/lime will be going on is very dry.

Graham