I posted a thread last week about Homebase recommended thickness of ply which they said 9mm, just watched Cowboy Trap and guess what,they recommended the same thickness they of got the bad guys in.
Got asked to investigate and remedy a failed bathroom floor this week, the tiles didn't even need a hammer and bolster to release them from this floating floor
a caber chipboard floor, rockwool fibreglass insulation on that, plasterboard on top of that, then another layer of chipboard (all...
I've just had my bathroom tiled & it looks awful. He's coming back tomorrow to grout & for his money. I've taken lots of pictures & already started taking the tiles down. This has ruined my newly plastered walls & I've had to order new tiles as several of them have broken. Please help
ive just opened a batch of 600x 400 x 12mm jerusalem gold honed limestone. the face looks as though it has been hand honed with a 100 diamond grit.
loads of chips and edges not straight and out of square.
if you flip the tile over the back of the tile is brushed!!!
when i call supplier they...
i appear to have arthritis in my right knee :yikes: and currently popping pills to keep going :20: the long term prognosis is not good, scraps,wash outs, replacements but only when you are 60 + only 53 thats a long wait on pills then the re-placement will only last 10 years the government hope...
my 4 year old has just ran in the kitchen screaming, daddy, he's fell off the wall and smashed his head in!
i'm gonna have to log off and find out whats happened and who it was?
i just watched the news, they say the construction industry took another dip, when is this misery going to turn into good news :mad2: to many peeps just ticking over trying to stay afloat ,lets hope the Olympics gives the economy a boost, but i think people around the greater London area will...
Quick question, is chipboard that bad a floor substrate to tile on? I'll be doing someone's en suite floor in a couple of weeks and they have chipboard down at the moment. I would like to put ply or backerboard over it but I think it'll raise the floor level higher than that of the bedrooms...
went to the hen hut yesterday to lift the eggs, and one of the hens was "feet up" off the perch, first one that's croaked since we got our original batch of six. Anyway I thought i'd tell the boys that we were now down to 5 hens as one had died. Harrison was a bit upset as he really loved going...
In a what can only be described as a spectacular feat of stupidness, I crashed down a staircase on Friday morning only to knock myself out and leave the lads thinking it was time to start looking for work elsewhere upon my expected demise. My life did not flash in front of me in a flurry of...
As if things are not bad enough and hard enough out there in the working world I have had to spend all day Monday trying to shift this PC Virus that infected one of my PC's.
I have one PC (the left one) to deal with email and internet.
I have the other PC (the right one) to deal with internet...
Evening all! I have just stumbled across this site! I have been a self employed tiler for 35 years, experienced in all aspects of the game. I have never known things so bad as they are at the moment. I am finding that builders or plumbers on a job before me and are jumping on the bandwagon...
I am thinking of putting white floor tiles in every room in my holiday home in Spain.
Are they high maintenance? i.e show lots of dirt etc
Does it look good?
What colour grout?
Thanks
home today,paper work catch up.thought id watch a bit of tv,'the renovation game' one of those daytime tv makeover/building shows.turned it off due to it making me angry,again like most if not all of these shows just bad advice,today on this show whilst removing tiles from bathroom "ah these...
I said to my Doctor,
"I've badly bruised my willy in a surfing accident"
"He said, did you fall off your board?"
"No, I had to shut my laptop rather quickly, the wife was coming :yikes:
I'll get my coat :lol:
mondays job was to fix 600 x 400 travetine in shower area
the shop where i got the job said they recommended class aa tub adhesive to fix same
when i suggested this was wrong told i was to picky
it strikes me sometimes shops sell whatever they have in stock
anyone had same trouble
As a parent I find this story totally disgusting, saw the original footage on You Tube a while ago,it made my blood boil. This is an updated one.. I dare not describe here my feelings what should happen to the father of this child
Judge William Adams daughter Hillary Adams goes on the Today...
Hi All
Ive been doing a job with Topps tiles, zamora brown 30x30.
when i got the tiles out the boxes they had some dust on the top of tile face which was in the pattern of the back of the tile on top.
Dusting off a couple they seemed perfectly fine,not sure if anybody has had it but i find it...
Sorry guys and gals
this is not a very cheerful thread but after the week that i have had i dont feel very cheerful.
bad luck started on monday when my fein packed up (bought it 6 months ago) and the company i bought it from are stating that fein should fix it and fein are saying that the...