preparing

I have seen some natural stone tiles done with out taking sharp edge off. How do you prepare your tiles? and how do you finish external corners. I personaly take sharpe edge off of tiles before tiling and most times do mitre on exeternal corners.

Hi all - new to the site, and would really appreciate some basic advice on how to prep a wood floor for tiling. Against my (better?) judgement, my wife has stripped back our hall and kitchen to the floorboards, sanded and dyed them black. Now want to tile instead. The floor seems pretty level...

Hi. we have recentle moved to a new house and the previous owner had painted the concrete floor's downstairs with that nasty red paint they use on garage floor's. I plan in tiling the hallway and kitchen floors myself and i'm hoping there is a way of doing it with out having to strip all the...

Hi All, I’m about to start tiling my bathroom and would really appreciate some help. I’ve spent some time looking through the site, which has been very useful, but I’d be grateful for advice on the following issues. Using - 20cm by 20cm tumbled travertine on the floor. 10cm by 10cm tumbled...

I have 22mm floorboards over joists in bathroom, all in very good conditions with very little deflection. I am looking at tiling the bathroom floor with natural stone tiles and having electric UFH in as well. Would it be ok to overboard floor with 6mm tile backing boards and then tile on top of...

Hi my first post so Hi to all. I've read a number of posts and have really enjoyed the discussions as they are most informative. Hopefully, someone can give me some advice. My tiling competency is most probably at the high end of DIY having successfully tiled about 20 bathrooms and kitchens...

Hi, I know they are loads of post relating to preparing floor, but I have a rather odd one. My house is a 1940's semi , with wooden suspended floorboards. I did the bathroom last year, which is located upstairs. I wanted to tile floor and walls. My dad's, who's got experience tiling , but in...

My kitchen had the laminate from the counters go up the wall to thebottom of the top cupboards for a backsplash. I just tore it off and getting ready to put in a porcelain backsplash. When we tore off the laminate there is some glue in spots and other areas are where top layer of sheet rock...

Hi All, A bit of advice please.I have used UFH on wooden substrates many times including my own bathrooms. I have been approached to do a floor approx 20m2 which at present has wooden floor boards on wooden joists. The client would like UFH installed, and wants the belt & braces treatment for...

Please Help! I am refurbishing my new house and have just ripped out my old bathroom. It has a toilet, wash basin, bath and a separate shower cubicle. I have stripped off all of the old tiles and carpet off the floor and have been left with bare plaster walls around the majority of the bathroom...

Hi all, I'm preparing my concrete kitchen floor (12 sq mtr) before it gets tiled with porcelain tiles (2ft x 1ft). There used to be vinyl tiles but we ripped them up when we first bought the house, I have removed most of the old adhesive with a chisel but there's still some patches that are on...

I am about to lay sheera modular slate tiles. Do I need to clean before laying. Or can I use the grime remover after laying and then seal before and after grouting?

Hi, I am about to embark on tiling the bathroom of our first home and want to do it right. I've got a few questions I'm hoping you can help with :smilewinkgrin: Pre-text: The bathroom is in a 1970's house. Walls are concrete and the floor is covered with tongue-and-groove floorboards. The...

Hi all, I was wondering if you can help. I'm taking on my first tiling project to tile my kitchen floor and keep reading different advice on different websites so was hoping you all may be able to give the best advice! I'm tiling my floor to improve the surface and also to stop smells...

i started a bathroom thursday but the dodgy plasterer had dry lined the window header but the board was overlapping the glass :yikes:. after removing the board i found there was only about 8mm gap for both the board and tile, on closer inspection the header was a poor/weak lathe and plaster. i...

Hi all, After removing some old tiles from my bathroom wall there are some cracks and small holes in the plasterboard and solid walls. My tiler said it will still be ok to tile onto but I could use some unibond mixed with water to help prep the wall as best as possible ready for him to start...

Hi I'm about to tile an anhydrite screed floor (60m2) with 60x60 1mm porcelain tiles. I've just been reading on here that i need to sand the surface and prime it with Primer G before I tile. So, a couple of questions: 1) How do I sand the floor? What with etc? 2) Where do I get the...

Hi to you all, I am starting the long process of moving to either Aus or NZ, all depends on the amount of job prospects. If anyone can help please do. Thanks Gary

Hi, Firstly thank you to Dominic at Diamond Tiling for answering a lot of my questions and directing me here. I have roughly 70sq/m of suspended floor and appx 30sq/m of concrete floor which all need tiling over a wet under floor heating system. On the concrete floors I have laid down 4" of...

Hi folks. I need to box-in the pipes the run around the perimiter of my bathroom floor. I was thinking of using No-more Nails to stick 2x4 treated timber to the floor, and then screw ply into this to act as the top. These surfaces will then be tiled in the same tiles as the floor. A few...