Hi Im new to all this but wondered if any of your members can help. I have been a tiler for years and never had this problem before. The white grout is fine as I complete the job then a couple of days later customer saying it has turned yellow in patches. Any help/advice welcome Cheers Kev
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Hello - first post here but first thanks for all the great info I've gained as a lurking guest :-)
Having successfully tiled our ensuite a few years back I'm now tackling the bathroom.
I've put two coats of neat Bal APD on the plaster skim as per the instructions. I thought it had gone OK but...
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Hi,
We are doing a balcony above a living area in our house and we are looking at different ways to waterproof before the tiles go down. The balcony is waiting to be decked in ply atm, the build up will consist of 18mm ply, alcor roof system ontop and finished with tiles. We have seen the...
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Hi everyone, I use alot of bal grouts (but mainly mapei) and thought it would be good to have a bal grout colour selector to show customers. So I emailed bal and they said I could have one but I would have to pay for it? Seemed a bit strange as I'm trying to sell there product? So went into CTD...
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Hi,
I hope you can help?
I have a fully dry screed that the Plasterer laid like a ploughed field. I have used a floor grinder to flatten, I have vacummed and primed with 1 coat of SBR today diluted 4 parts water 1 part BAL sbr (as recommended by BAL for dust suppression)
I forgot to ask...
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Well, I'm not a fan of football in the slightest but recently I've been taking my 5 year old stepson to football training for one of our local teams. I chinned the couch tonight to see if he would be interested in me sponsoring the team, which he was. He's relating this back to the chairman and...
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I just had a chat with the Bal technical guys asking about priming ply, he asked what we were doing, which is:
Porcelain floor tiles on 18mm ply on joists at 300 centers. Large ceramic wall tiles on 18mm ply. I said we were going to use Rapidset Flexible. His response was 'You can't do that...
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Has anyone ever used Bal PTB stone and tile on a wall?? a customer that i'm doing a job for (a fairly good size one to be fair) has already bought the adhesive from his mate at the local shop. He bought PTB for the floor i'm finishing off this week which has been fine. But now he has bought a...
Hello there.
This is my first post but I have been viewing this site for a couple of years.
I need to tank a floor with tilesafe. Can this be used with walls coated with Bal WP1? I am thinking of the compatibility - at the floor/wall junction where the tilesafe reinforcing tape is applied to...
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BAL is offering architects a comprehensive family of seminars, all approved by RIBA as contributing to their annual Continual Professional Development (CPD) study requirement. Each 45-minute seminar gives detailed coverage of a particular aspect of tiling. All can be booked at Broken Link...
Hello all,
Wondering if any of you have used the Bal Superflex Wide Joint Grout, Charcoal colour, 3.5kg bags as sold at Topps Tiles for £11.49. Used for joints 3mm-20mm.
I need to use a charcoal grout for my client. Its going on the 15cm glossy white wall tiles from Topps.
I was going to...
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Just watching Eastenders and the posty mashood is tiling a water feature in his garden .. in the back ground in plain site was a bag of Bal mosaic fix and his wash/sponge bucket was an empty tub of Bal whitestar.. :lol:...
how's that for advertising..
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im not a great football fan, but whats your veiws on the latest incident making the headlines in football.
do you think he was right to be sent off, or was the ball boy milking it for all its worth, and did he deserve what he got for wasting time, seems he could of planed it from the start...