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  1. Beyond the blue

    Impey Waterguard, how high to go?

    I am using Impey Waterguard to tank the floor and walls of my wet room project. The supplier of the Waterguard (who are wet room installers) advised me to only go 1mtr high on the walls to ensure better tile adhesion above this height. The walls are skimmed plaster. Anyone got any thoughts on this?
  2. W

    How to straighten a stud wall.

    Decent video on how to get a wall flat ready for tiling.
  3. A

    Advice on how best to remove mastic bead from tile trim?

    Could someone please advise the best way to remove a mastic bead from the top of a chrome coloured tile trim with minimal risk of causing scratches to the trim please? Thanks in advance.
  4. E

    How to Properly Fit Corner / Final Tile Where Movement Is Limited

    In the videos I've been watching about how to lay a tile properly they advocate sliding the tile perpendicular to the run of the adhesive grooves onthe floor. This collapse the channels and provides better contact etc. When the trowel is 20mm (the height seems to be 15mm the width 20mm) the...
  5. Bond

    How many trowels do you need.

    Had a bit of a sort out and realised what a diverse bunch of trowels l need to cover the work that l do, (basically all trowel trades). The oldest goes back to the early seventies, before l discovered Marshalltown. What are your trowels like?
  6. R

    Just checking how much height I'll need

    Hello all, Can you please advise what the minimum finished height I need to plan for if I want to put down a 10mm Ceramic tile onto existing joists. My plan was to put down 18mm T&G...then a tile backer board (thickness?), then adhesive (thickness ?)....then the tile. My perfect world is not...
  7. J

    Do you guys feel that the majority of customers overlook how important it is to prepare substrates?

    I foolishly agreed to take on a job without going to look at it first for my brother in law who works as a handy man mainly for a lettings company. He does various work like joinery, painting, wallapering, tiling etc. I turned up at the job to find this: I told him I wouldn't be able to do it...
  8. H

    Help how to make a circumference with tiles

    Hello everyone and thanks for your help I am doing level 2 nvq and I would like to know if someone can help with this issue I need to perform the calculation to know the exact size of cut to make a circumference with 150mm tiles attached a photo with the data thanks for your help would also like...
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