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Hi guys, I have done a fair bit of DIY tiling but I'm unsure on the best way to go with these. Should i space between as usual or fit them tight for a very narrow grout? Also any recommendations on the grout to use? I'm trying to find the closest colour match to the tiles so it looks like a...

I'm tiling my bathroom using white metro tiles 20mm x 10mm (not bevelled). I want to use a brick bond pattern. When tiling around a window/door do I start above them and work down or do I start at the first full tile above the floor and hope the pattern matches back up above the window/door...

Hi Tilers, this is my first question on this forum and I've got a few different areas to cover! I am a DIYer, working on renovating a kitchen, utility room and cloakroom/shower room. My previous experience of tiling is using large format porcelain tiles onto cement/foam backer board, on floors...

Looking for 2 tiles of this design. The size is 250mm x 330mm (ish). Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi all, I'd like to install brick slips on a wall of my kitchen as a form of splashback. I want to make this as easy to clean as possible (fake tiles are just not authentic enough) so what sealant is recommended for this type of job?

Hi everyone, I need advice, I'm tiling a big floor with 600 b 300 porcelain tiles and im wanting to try the self leveling spacers for the 1st time. 600 tiles can have a curve and can lip in the middle on a brick bond affect. Has anyone used self leveling spacers on this kind of job and do you...

Hi All, It's my first post here. I'm currently working on a wetroom in my flat and would love to hear your advice. 2 sides of the wetroom are pretty straight forward and are going to be tiled onto thermal cement boards fixed to timber pre-wall. Other wall is was old plaster stripped to brick. I...

Hi Lads Brick slips becoming more and more popular. How much as a general idea are lads charging. I normally try to get 40-50m2 Sometimes i wonder if its worthbthe hassle when it comes to pointing up

Hello! I am about to lay a walk in shower with 120cm X 20 cm tiles. In general the room will be a "brick" type layout. The walk in shower is closed on 3 sides and borderless on the front. The drain is a hole type drain which is off center, which means I will have to generally cut the 'v...

Hi there, I've been getting quite a few requests for brickslips and I think I'd like to take them on but would like to get some idea of how long they take to put up and point. Does anyone here do them regularly and have a metre-per-day rate that they go on when quoting? Also I'd appreciate...

Hi, I'm currently working on a bathroom and have stripped the walls back to brickwork with lime mortar. For the shower area my plan is to dot and dab 20mm Jackoboard onto the brickwork with Mapei Keraquick before tiling. Does the brickwork need priming for the Keraquick? I understand PVA...

All, I have 600mm by 300mm porcelain tiles for the shower area. The girlfriend wants a vertical line of glass mosiac tiles 302mm by 302mm as a feature in the centre of the shower (shower head and valves to be mounted on mosiacs; which will bring more problems I'm sure... but anyways!). The...

Good evening, i have a project coming up to tile a fireplace interior with real brick slip tile. The interior has been sand/ cement rendered around 3 weeks ago. The fireplace is decorative only so heat won’t be a factor. After priming with BAL APD i was thinking of back buttering the brick...

Hi, Running a small bathroom job for a customer. Customer really wants to use a particular 600x300x9 porcelain tile he has picked out in a brick bond pattern. The back wall of the shower cubicle is awkwardly a little over 600 wide. It's also on the wonk in a proper pyramid shape, but all...

Hi all, Doing our kitchen renovation and would really like to use some brick slips, for the 3 recessed sections (angled to the left, chimney recess and large section to the right) The wall has been boarded with dab adhesive, with a skim over the top with 1 paint coat over a mist. I did a...

Hey would anyone be able to help me removing acid burn/vanadium stains (mainly greenish/yellowish with small amount of orange) from white/grey clay brick tiles? They came about (long strong) from Hydrochloric acid (muriatic acid) use on them to remove some insanely tough dirt. I've looked on...

Hi guys following on from my previous wet room build here: Full Wetroom Build Thread - Start to finish - https://www.tilersforums.com/threads/full-wetroom-build-thread-start-to-finish.88057/ My next project is doing 45sqm of recalimed 150 year old bricks. So let's start! The basic build up is...

My bathroom walls are currently tiled halfway and then plastered up to the ceiling, they will be tiled floor to ceiling with 600x300x8mm ceramic tiles. The general consensus is that when the tiles are removed the bricks will be exposed. The first tiler advised the bricks will need to be...

Hi guys Just about to do 45Sqm of brick floor and was after any tips if anyone has any? Bricks are 20mm thick, Handmade buff terracotta 110 x 240mm. The sizes do vary quite considerably... Screed is Anhydrite 50mm with wet UFH, screed has had lattice removed. My current plan is: Primer with...

hi, I have got one side of my shower that is a masonry brick wall (looker plaster removed) that I’ve got a couple of queries on regarding the fixing of wedi board (or similar) 1. Will using tile adhesive to fix the wediboard be ok? Does the wall need priming first? The wall on the whole is...