bathroom

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    Waterproofing bathroom plasterboard wall

    Bit of a long one and sorry if this questions been answered before. DIYer here. Planning on tiling the upper half of a bathroom wall over a bath to install an overhead shower. It’s a 5ish year old new build and currently has a bath installed and is tiled to about half way up the wall, above the...
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    Pictures Looking for a tile

    Please help me find this tile.
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    Bathroom window and half tiled wall

    Hi. I am going to be filing around a window which is very close (about 70mm to the adjacent wall. That wall next to it will be half tiled. My question is would it look best if I aim to run the grout line dead on the bottom of the window and stop the tiles on the other wall at that height or...
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    Tiling Under A Bathroom Window

    Is it ok to butt the tile up against the bottom of the window sill to keep the tile height with the piping on h other walls the same?
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    Tiling Under A Bathroom Window

    The tile all around the top on the bathroom walls will have piping on the top tile. The tile on the wall under he window will butt up against the bottom of the window sill. This way the height of the top of the tiles are the same on all walls. See the photos. Is this a good way to do this? what...
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    How to cut these 3d ceramic bathroom tiles?

    Hi folks, Not a large amount of experience tiling but I did a respectable job on a kitchen backsplash with metro tiles a few years back. My wife has decided she wants a particular tile fitted to our shortly to be renovated bathroom. These tiles are B&Q ceramic 600mm x 200mm and they have a...
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    Bathroom fitters tiling over gap without filling in

    Hi, Had a walk in shower fitted which is currently being tiled. Noticed that the tradesmen are tiling over a corner gap between 2 wallboards without filling it in first. Is this normal practice? Photo attached, the gap is approx 0.5 cm
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    Bathroom tiling job approx 15sqm in London NW6.

    Hi, I need a tiler for tiling walls and floor in a renovated bathroom. Approx 12sqm walls and 3sqm floor. Tiles not selected yet but will be either 300 x 600 or 600 x 600 or 600 x 1200. Right wall and floor will be hardibacker and both are flat. Back wall (behind tub) and left wall are wet...
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    New plaster work renovated bathroom. In ware in Hertfordshire SG129HF

    Small bathroom ready to go New plastered through. About 10 square meters
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    Bathroom re grouting.

    Can I add anti mold solution to my grout when mixing it
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    Tile expansion joint - small bathroom and boarded

    Hello I have a 3 x 2.4m bathroom. Floor is 25mm ply overboarded with 6mm cement board. Walls are a mixture of brick & stud that have been boarded with either foam tile backer board or moisture resistant plasterboard depending on area. For a room this size and with those features is an...
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    Adhesive & Grout Recommendations for Bathroom

    Hi Everyone, I’m a new DIY tiler looking to do my bathroom and downstairs toilet. The amount of adhesives and grouts out there is a little overwhelming and confusing for us newbies so was hoping for someone to shed some light on which ones would be best for me… Substrates: The bathroom has new...
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    Bathroom started, wrong from the start? Advice appreciated please.

    Hi all, I've got a bathroom fitter starting on my bathroom he's put Hardiebacker all around the bath area, he was going to put hardiebacker at the bottom and middle and plasterboard at the top but I asked for full cement board. He's used 6mm hardiebacker, which I believe is for the floor but...
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    Mike's Bathroom floor project

    First time tiling, I'm using 12 X 12 ceramic tiles on the floor. Cement board underlayment is down, I've dry fitted the tiles with spacers, but some of the tiles aren't quite flat on the floor, they wobble a little. Can I mix the thinset mortar a little thicker and use it to make all tiles...
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    Sandy stuff under bathroom wall tiles!!??

    Hi everyone, first time here as a first time buyer in a flat where literally everything needs doing, and now I have no money, so DIY here I come! So I've started on the bathroom, and have been removing the wall tiles, and they've pretty much been falling off in big sections, coming off with...
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    Preparation for luxury vinyl planks in bathroom. Should I tank?

    Hello, I’m a keen diy’er and looking to install my bathroom. I intend to tank the wall areas where my shower will go with q-boards from b&q before tiling. My floor however is luxury vinyl plank which is supposedly waterproof. Has anyone got experience using this in a bathroom? How do you...
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    Bad Bathroom Fitter. Help!

    My mum is having her bathroom fitted and she sent me some photos and my partner pointed out that several things weren’t looking great. I spoke to the contractor and he said we didn’t know what we were talking about and that he’d been in the trade for 30+ years and told his fitter to carry on...
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    First ever bathroom tile job. Have i done things right or wrong

    Had my bathroom ripped out and plumbers first fix at weekend. Tiler I had turned up Sunday. Did an hour and half. Did half a wall that looked a complete mess. I tried to put it right but couldn't. Me and my missus decided they would look horrendous and got rid of the tiler. No one could come at...
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    Advice for tiling bathroom floor

    Folks I'm after some general advice for tiling a floor... I'm going to be laying 60 x 60 tiles. So I've replaced all the floor with 22mm T&G P5 and I've going to lay hardibacker over the top. Should I SBR the floor before fitting the hardibacker or just make sure its good and clean? So once...
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    Bathroom floor and wall advice

    Hi all, currently have a Self build in progress and require some advice, after reading a few posts and doing a little research I have come to the conclusion that my two upstairs bathrooms set on 600 centres posi joist and 22mm caberdek should have been 400 centres and a totally different floor...

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