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    Wet Room Floor Advice Please

    I have a friend that's building a wet room at the moment. He doesn't want to use a formed tray but just wants to make the floor in its entirety. This will comprise of a run from one end of the room to the drain end. It's a linear drain that he plans to have roughly 30cm from the shower wall. The...
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    What Slow Set Are You Using With Ramondi Levelling System And Some Help Plz

    Hi all I am going to be tiling a kitchen floor soon in 600x600 polished porcelain . I will be laying On 10mm inso boards with ufh loose wire system and slc over the wires. I am going to Use a ramondi levelling system to keep lippage down I wanted to know the best flexible slow set to use...
  3. M

    Underground Ticket

    how do you go about getting your ticket for underground work and how much please.
  4. macten

    Wonder Wipes

    Picking up some gear at my local CTD and impulse bought some wonder wipes. Used one today and wondered why I'd bothered.
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    Help Trainee Tiler

    Hi guys, basically I'm enquiring to see if anyone of you's would be interested in an opportunity to make me a part of your team as a junior tiler. I have 6 years experience working as a tilers mate with my father and grandfather who has now retired. My main duties were, grouting up and the...
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    Tiling Mosaics

    Hi I have just joined the site having completed a 4 week course to gain a City and Guilds Level 1 certificate and have done a couple of small jobs since - one which involved fitting a mosaic border. I had a bit of difficulty with this as when applying the mosaic sheet border to the adhesive on...
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    Tradetiler Telephone Not Working?

    The usual telephone number for Tradetiler is not working,is anyone aware of any problems
  8. Cris

    Bizarre

    Hey all, what are your thoughts on the location of this shower unit on a recent job I had..... fitted may I add by a regional electrical company for the handsome sum of just short of 1000 notes !
  9. macten

    Re-doing Dodgy Cowboy Work

    Serious botch job like the rest of the house - Couple moved in last year and having to put right each room. I was there in the summer putting them a boarding the loft out and putting in a bigger loft hatch and boarding, old hatch wasn't braced in any way - just nailed to the totally unsupported...
  10. Mouldy

    22mm P5

    ....Ok to tile directly to it after being tanked? Got to match into a wet deck and 22mm ply seems excessive!
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    Floor Area

    Anyone happen to know the largest floor area that can be tiled before using expansion joints?
  12. JMC tiling

    Waterproof/resistant Plasterboard, Really?

    Hi guys, went to look at the job at the weekend, all walls were plasterboarded (plasterboard has a blue front) in bathroom so I recommended the customer have the shower area tanked which they had no problem with until the builder told them that the plasterboard is a special water-resistant...
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    Guide To Tile Weights And Wall Limitations

    Following a few past threads there seems to be some confusion on what tiles can go onto what walls. Most of you here are professional tilers so apologies if any of this is old news. This is for those who are unsure how to gauge tile weights and for what is a suitable surface for your specific...
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    Tiling Floor Former With Long Tiles

    Hi. I'm planning on changing an en suite shower into a wetroom. I'd like to have wood effect floorboard style floor tiles (120 cm x 20). Would you foresee any problems when tiling the floor former i.e. can they still be staggered or would they all have to be cut in line as I think that would...
  15. judge

    Lotto

    Never usually do the lotto but tonight im feeling lucky ,Got 5 lines ready for the off.....please,please,please,please !!!!!!!!!!!:)
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    Guess The Weight Competition

    35no 600mm x 600mm x 10mm matt and gloss porcelain tiles(All mixed up) Delivered by some adhoc delivery van driving friend of the tile shop Whatever it weighs I wouldn't want it sitting on my toes
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    Porcelanosa Jersey Nieve

    Got a whole bathroom of these horrible tiles to fit. Cutting them looks like it could be a nightmare and then grouting could be even worse. PORCELANOSA Grupo - Ceramic Tiles - Jersey Nieve Pv 31,6x90 Has anyone else fitted them and if so were you able to cut them with a standard dry cut...
  18. Wishiwasatoptiler

    Ctd

    Thought I'd share my bit of luck, called in for some customers tiles etc that I'd ordered for tomorrow's job and Karl the manager had said I'd been drawn to pull a cracker form the Xmas prize draw. So pulled the cracker and I've won a nice bottle of brandy and a large Xmas pudding. granted a...
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    Help

    hi there ive seen a hallway floor this morning that the customer needs tiling she wants a boarder around the skriting board and full tiles in the middle,its a L shaped hallway,this is my first floor with a boarder,do i set out full tiles first then boarder tiles later or put the boarder in first...
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    Painted Walls And Prime + Grip

    everytime I walk into a room to tile and I see painted walls, I always worry! A lot of the time I've removed any loose with a scraper and scored the rest a bit with Stanley knife, primed with the usual acrylic and tiled with single part flexi and never had an problems. I've got a job to do next...

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