| Screeding | The act of applying a screed.... | |
| Screen Printing | Technique for applying patterns and decorative effects to a glazed tile.... | |
| Scribe | A tungsten tipped tool used to scribe a glazed tile surface prior to snapping into two.... | |
| Self Levelling Compound | Cement powder, water or latex based, for use on new and existing screed or concrete substrates to le... | |
| Semi-dry Thickbed | A traditional method of applying a sand and cement screed and tile bed in a single operation. Involv... | |
| Serrated Trowel | Manufactured with various sized serrations for application of adhesive. Also referred to as a notche... | |
| Setting Out | The act of arranging a starting or centre point on both floors and walls to achieve a balanced and v... | |
| Sharp Sand | Fine aggregate supplied to BS EN 13139 suitable for use in a floor screed.... | |
| Site Concrete | The base slab, constructed to BS 8204 Part 1 on which the bulk of tile floor finishes build up from.... | |
| Slip Outline | A means of forming a pattern on a biscuit tile using a line of thin wet slip which provides a separa... | |
| Slip Resistance | The coefficient of dynamic friction of a floor surface related to foot traffic. The Pendulum Test de... | |
| Smalti | Small irregularly shaped pieces of mosaic that are snipped from 10 mm slabs of highly coloured glass... | |
| Spacer Pegs | A series of plastic spacer pins or pegs of prescribed width, used during wall tile fixing to maintai... | |
| Spirit Level | A hand held instrument for establishing vertical and horizontal levels.... | |
| Split tiles | A description often applied to extruded ceramic tiles which were made back to back, wire cut to size... | |
| Squaring a large floor | An operation now performed with the aid of a laser, but originally using a large builder's timber se... | |
| Straight Edge | An accurately prepared timber batten or a manufactured aluminium item, used in setting out and also ... | |
| String Course | The course of tiling either side of a staircase laid lineable with tread nosings.... | |
| String line | Used in conjunction with chalk to mark course lines on a wall or floor and without the chalk to chec... | |
| Sub floor | General term for all construction layers below the floor tiling.... | |
