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    8.5mm porcelain bathroom tiles

    Hi, I’m going to be laying 8.5mm 600mm x 600mm porcelain bathroom tiles soon. What sort of tile cutter would you recommend using. I’m probably going to hire one for a week.
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    Wall and floor prep - bathroom remodel

    Hello all, After years of abuse, the bathroom needed an overhaul from top to bottom. Out came the bath, sink and toilet. Corner bath still upside down in back garden....haven't got round to cutting it in quarters yet to take to the dump. Toilet was never fixed to the floor 😆 Floor tiles...
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    Bathroom floor - plywood or floorboards

    Hi all, I’ve got an old Victoria house with 20mm first floor floorboards. They’re in quite good shape but 1-3mm gaps between some. They’ve been pulled up for the plumber in the 1st floor bathroom, and my original plan was to remove them all and replace with 18mm WBP plywood onto the joists...
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    Tiling my bathroom help please.

    Hi all. I am tiling my bathroom after removing old suite. I have used a batten all the way around half a tile above where the bath will go. I am now tiling above batten. Once I’ve done that how do I go about tiling below where the batten was please ? Do I have to measure and put another...
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    Best Ready to Use Waterproof Grout for Bathroom floors -Beige

    Can anyone recommend a ready-to-use waterproof grout for an elderly diy-er to attempt to repair grout in beige bathroom tiles please? Thank you in anticipation of any replies.
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    Tiling a full bathroom

    I’m about to remove and replace in same place my bathroom and fittings. I am planning on tiling walls and floor with 600x600 tiles. Please could someone help Me on planning this. Do I baton above bath then all way round? Do I tile window wall first. ? Also some of the plaster has come off...
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    Do my wall tiles have water ingress? (Photos)

    I have started to notice a wet pattern look on my Porcelanosa Marmol Carrara Blanco bathroom wall tiles. I have looked at unfitted tiles and I do not believe the grey ‘wet’ looking patches to be a part of the design. Quite a lot of tiles display this pattern but not all. Also they are scattered...
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    Merseyside Work Bathroom fitter required

    Hi guys 😀 Anyone near Merseyside need work ? Got rental shower reinstall new bathroom needed in another rental and new 10 bed hmo requiring 10 good en suites ...
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    Raising a bathroom floor with shims/packers

    I'm refitting our bathroom which is about 3m sq and am putting in a wetroom shower in the corner with the hidden tray under the tiles. The floor slopes slightly and not in the right direction for the shower. I'm putting 18mm ply on the joists and adding noggins for extra rigidity but am...
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    Laura Ashley Wicker bathroom tile

    Hi, I'm looking for Laura Ashley Wicker tile in Charcoal. Size 50cm x 50cm. Can only find smaller sizes. Porcelain matt for bathroom floor. Purchased originally a few years ago from Homebase but not enough.
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    Bathroom Floor Tile Advice

    We are currently re-doing our bathroom. Everything has been stripped back. Property is a 1930's house. The bathroom floor boards had terrible woodworm so after removing and treating the joists for woodworm, we have replaced the floorboards with 12mm structural ply-board as advised by a well...
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    My 1st Job Replace damagedGypsum plasterboard with aquapanel in shower enclosure?

    Hello, this is my first post on here, probably one of many I am sure! I am looking for some advice on an issue we are facing with our shower enclosures tiling in a circa 1890s mid terrace house. We recently moved into a house that had recently been refurbished, and fitted with freestanding...
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    • aquapanel bathroom former gypsum plasterboard replace shower shower tray wetroom
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    • Forum: Tanking and Wetrooms
  13. Rhedyn

    Materials for slate bathroom floor in old traditional stone house?

    Hello all, I'm looking to lay a Penrhyn slate floor, approx 1.5m x 1.8m, for a first floor bathroom in a very old (but not listed) traditional Welsh stone farmhouse, and I have some questions about the best approach to take. I have attached a photo of the underside of the wood beam and plank...
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    Is This A Bad Bathroom Tiling Job: Suspect Prep + Toilet Now Slopes

    Recently had a building company replace a leaking wet room floor, located on the 1st floor of a 1930's built terrace house. The tiles are large format porcelain tiles sitting on a Ditra Matt supported by 18" plywood. The rusty trowel that he left before the bank holiday w/e gave me some...
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    Silicon colour?? Bathroom and Shower

    Hi I'm looking for some opinions on Silicon colours for my new bathroom, I'm getting close to finishing it and unsure of what colour Silicon to use. I have limestone (ultra tile) grout and marble affect porcelain. Should I use 1) limestone Silicon on the internal vertical corners, and white...
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    Prepping bathroom floor

    I removed small ceramic tiles from floor but the paper backing and a very thin layer of thinset remains. Can I remove the loose pieces of paper then seal the floor with a primer/sealer before laying new 12x24 tiles? The plywood backer is intact and the surface, as it stands now is level and...
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    First bathroom project

    Hopefully someone can help! Currently attempting to gut and refit a small bathroom with plasterboard walls. walls.. First time ive done it, never really plumbed or tiled but learning fast! The gutting went OK and bathroom now empty. but now confusion starts. The long wall of the bath I was...
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    Mapei white grout absorbing water

    Hi after some advice . Just finished the shower cubicle , used a Mapei white grout and the grout goes grey and absorbs water . After a while it dries out again , but this is not normal ? I have the same tile in my other bathroom but used a cheap travis Perkins 4 trade grout and had no problems ...
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    Carpeted bathroom with wall tiles. Skirting board or not?

    Hi all, hoping for an advise pls for a bathroom work currently underway. Insurers are fixing a bathroom leak, part of which they are replacing wall marbrex panels with tiles. Done by a 3rd party who is actually doing the job. This is carpeted bathroom, with wall tiles, and skirting board, how it...
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    Managing Transition from Cement Board to Plasterboard in bathroom

    Hi all, Have been here in the past for a previous job some years back, but back again to get some great advice on my next job. I'm renovating my bathroom. Existing wet areas around shower and bath appear to just be plasterboard (!!) so I am looking to cut out the existing plasterboard for the...

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