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    Damp Bathroom Walls

    Scenario: Very old terraced house - downstairs bathroom - brick walls - bonded and plastered (about 15 years ago it was completely stripped and redone) - damp coming through from outside - mould behind the tiles and in the plaster - tiles fall off - needs re-tiling Damp problem has not yet...
    • Tile Shop
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    • aus bathroom damp preperation wall walls
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Bathroom Tiling Advice
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    Ridged Tiles - Thank You

    I didn't want to fall into the trap of as asking for advice and then not providing feedback. I want to thank those who gave me advice on cutting ridged porcelain tiles. I bought an ATS disc for my angle grinder and cut the tiles today. What a great piece of kit. I clamped a batten onto the tiles...
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    Quarry Tile Replacement?

    Hi all, hoping you can help. We had to dig up some new-ish quarry tiles in our utility room to put in some underfloor heating. Unfortunately most of them got broken in digging them out, and we now need to replace them. Does anyone have any idea what sort they are? Dimensions 149 x 149 x 13mm...
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    Decoupler

    Who is gonna be the first to try this? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUNEWAtvd-4 Is a bit like how we used to lay a visqueen sheet down before screeding and tiling.
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    Hairline Cracks In Marble At Studs

    Hi Guys, Anyone come accross this before? 4 inch stud wall 5m long x 2.8m high clad in 12mm hardibacker. Fixed 600 x 400 arrabascato italian marble tiles with Bal single part flexible slow set. lmm grout joints but left adequate expansion on the hardi and the tiles. 3 months no problem. Now a...
    • Gonzo1969
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    • aus crack cracking cracks debonding hairline marble
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Underfloor Heating Causing Marks On Tiles

    Hi, I recently laid underfloor warm up style matt heating. Half is an old floor taken back to concrete. And half was a new screed laid a few months prior (according to customer) The floor was primed with the primer that was issued with the heating. The floor was then covered in flexible latex...
    • yogi19
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    • aus ceramic floor floor tiling heating marks tile tiles underfloor underfloor heating
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Another Church Stone Floor

    just started an interesting stone job in a chapel at a private school. ancaster white limestone 900x 600x 20 and 600x 600 x 20 out of which we have cut borders on site. three areas of coloured quarries. her area few pics of how job progressing. all products from tilemaster . will update every...
    • jonnyc
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    • aus floor floor tiling limestone stone tile adhesive
    • Replies: 50
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Failed Floor

    went to change couple of broken tiles and this is outcome.... first floor, chipboard floor, 9 mm ply, wet UFH between joists, all tiles debonded from addy, addy to ply stuck well, job done 2 years ago. total of 55 m2. Can you guys share your opinions what went wrong here? cheers
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    Tiling Over Floorboards - Bathroom

    First of all, hello, I'm a newbie (have some rental properties which I work on) and am redoing our bathroom at home and creating an en-suite. After tiling the en suite myself I decided to employ a tiler to do the main bathroom (also my wife insists, quite rightly). I've had 3 tilers look at...
    • Dominic Patterson
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    • aus bathroom floor floor tiling floorboards over tiling
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Bathroom Tiling Advice
  10. jobdone

    Impey Water Guard

    Where do you all source impey waterguard? have previously always used tile safe but have heard good things about water guard and like the fact that the overlaps are much thinner in height variation due to thickness.
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    Wet Look Or Gloss Look Sealer Needed On Slate Flooring

    Can someone please tell me name of a good Sealer product which can give a high sheen wet look on slate flooring . It has to be glossy and last at least a year or two. I have been recommended Stone Glo but i cannot find this product anywhere in the UK . how can i get a lasting wet look on...
    • jason591
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    • aus floor floor tiling flooring gloss needed sealer slate wet
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Today's View.

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    Anybody Know This Tiling Contractor

    Hello all, Just wondering if any of you guys have worked for or heard of a tiling contractor called Sutton Stone & Ceramics bested in Sutton Coldfield ??.......may do abit for them but just thought I may get some feedback on here before I do........ Cheers
    • MW Smith Ceramics
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    • aus contractor new build this tiling tiling contractor
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Layout Question

    Hi all I am tiling a 1200 by 900 shower recess with 600 x 300 tiles (laid horizontally). I would have liked brick bond but the horizontal ridged tiles do not seem to lend themselves to this layout so the tiles will be vertically aligned. This may sound like a daft question but I'm torn on how to...
  15. JMC tiling

    How Annoying!!

    How annoying is it when you pore your SLC over underfloor heating electrical matting and the matting (not the wires) bubbles up to the surface!! anyone got a good solution to stopping this happen or a particular brand of UFH? I have used spray floor adhesive on the matting which does help but...
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    Ridged Porcelain Tiles

    I am tiling a shower cubicle with porcelain tiles (they are called forward tiles) . The feature tiles are ridged horizontally at about half inch intervals. I am not having huge success cutting to width (so I am cutting at right angles to the ridges). I bought a Sigma 3B3 tile cutter as they seem...
    • harrylime
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    • aus porcelain porcelain tile porcelain tiles tile tiles
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Hardi Backer

    i use a fair amount of hardi backer and while it's great stuff it's also a massive pain in the arse. Heavy Horrible to cut Worse to cut holes in Then there's fixing it The screws are awfull Fixing is my biggest gripe by a mile where it is so hard it sometimes does not pull in to the stud work...
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    Wet Ufh - Tiling Onto Screed

    Hi all, I'd appreciate any help. I'll be installing wet underfloor heating in a new extension. I would like to know if i can tile straight onto the screed with flexible adhesive? Thank you.
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    Tops Rapid Set Flexy White

    has anyone had problems with it not sticking to the tiles? Has been sticking to the wall good enough but on a couple jobs it's been a bit patchy and not sticking to the tiles
    • tommy1712
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    • aus rapid rapid set set tile adhesive topps white
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Cleaned Tiles Weeping Water

    Hi all, Tiling my bathroom and wonder if I might get a sanity check!? Got all the tiles out last night to sort good from bad. They were a little dusty so used a sponge and a number of buckets of cold clean water to clean them. Left stacked up in 15's over night. Checked on how clean they were...
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