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    best way for tilers to advertise?

    how do you find getting work through advertisement?
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    Whats the best way to repair this?...not tiling but Karn Dean flooring

    I recently made our archway from the livingroom to kitchen wider and no longer a arch to let more light in the kitchen....we have some strips of Karn dean left over quite a few spare strips. it looks like the floor has been self levelled and then stuck down...if i remove the cut pieces or...
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    Best way to...

    Take up an adhesive covered overply screwed every 150mm? RIp saw is out. Blade cost to much to wreck on running through screws out. Short of gorilla bars and a long hard days graft any tips
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    Best way to advise customer of a floor that WILL FAIL??

    I have recently been asked to tile a chipboard floor thats on a ground floor it is far too flexible to tile and i cant see how it can be strengthened. a cubicle has allready been installed directly onto this...This is a floor that is just not suitable to tile but i want to tell the custoimer in...
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    Whats the best way to tank our wetroom?

    Hi all! i am building a wetroom en-suite and have been doing some research but still can't decide on what materials to buy or what would be best for me. The walls are brick with plaster and the floor has floor boards and joists. At the moment I have decided to get the Tuff2 tray as I have read...
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    What's the best way to tank a plaster wall

    Hi all! i am building a wetroom en-suite and have been doing some research but still can't decide on what materials to buy or what would be best for me. The walls are brick with plaster and the floor has floor boards and joists. At the moment I have decided to get the Tuff2 tray as I have read...
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    Whats the best way to clean rustic slate

    Hi guys first post on the fourm so go easy, i am currently 2 years into a selfbuild and I have had my mate lay rustic slate from classic flagstones. The tiles are very heavly rivened in places and also contain alot of iorn staining so far i have been going over them with a sponge and water , i...
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    What the best way to...

    Create fall on a concrete floor towards a shower former? Former wil be chased in and finished floor surface will be the vinyl wet room flooring. Its to be used for disabled access. Have done plenty of wet rooms all have been installed on timber floors so concrete Is new to me. Don't want water...
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    Best way to raise existing screed height/depth

    Hi All. Please help. We are 20mm short after putting down the screed before laying limestone tiles (20mm + adhesive). How can we add another 20 mm on top of screed. Can we use 20mm flow screed? Thanks
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    Best way to seal power cable through Impey Tilesafe membrane??

    Would appreciate advice from anyone who has done this sort of install before.... I am about to fit an Impey Tilesafe membrane to my wetroom floor, followed by the (Impey recommended) Devimat 100W/sq.m electrical ufh. .......... All is going well, but I have come across a small hitch! The...
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    Best way to remove PVA?

    Have about 30m of fairly undiluted PVA to remove from skimmed walls tomorrow. What's the quickest way of going about this?
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    black kaddapa limestone - best price and best way to lay to avoid staining

    hi - was planning to buy the above (40m2 in 600x600mm tiles) from the stone collection aka stonehousetiles. its £30m2 ex VAT. i have seen cheaper but not even thickness and 600m and fairly un-rivened surface. any alternative suppliers out there that can better £30m2? also, have seen on...
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    Best way to level over underfloor heating on an Impey membrane?

    Hi,I'm installing an Impey tilesafe membrane on my wetroom floor and want to install underfloor heating. Impey recommend installing the ufh above the membrane and also say that fitting the ufh cable over the shower shower tray area to within about 150mm of the drain would be OK if I want to do...
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    Paper faced sheets of 4mm thick glass tiles - best way to fix to cement board please!

    Hi, I am tiling a shower cubicle and am a bit of a novice - certainly with glass tiles as I have not had to use these before! A few questions if I may......... Am I correct in thinking that it is best to tile the boards in their entirety bfore fitting the cubicle or is it best to fit the...
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    best way to fill chases and holes for tiling

    hi there. what is the best way to fill chases and holes etc in walls so that you can tile over them as soon as posible. if the wall was being painted , papered etc i would use bonding and filler but im afraid that that would soak up water or not stick properly. what way would be the best...
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    What is the best way to remove tile adhesive from plasterboard?

    Hi Everyone I am currently refitting my kitchen. I have started by removing the tiles from the walls but the plasterboard is now a mess with patches/lumps of tile adhesive still stuck to it. All the the tiles have been removed by bolster chisel and as you will all know, the bare plasterboard is...
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    Best way to use underfloor heating

    Recently had underfloor heating installed in a bathroom and I am having trouble with condensation. Can anyone tell me the ideal settings for a bathroom to try to prevent this? Is it more prefereable to have it set to target the air temp or the floor temp? Also is it prefereable have it on a...
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    best way to get the concrete off the back of majolica tiles

    I am a new member here. I have found these tiles to use in the bathroom of a house i am building. Although quite dirty they are cleaning up nicely. The problem is the concrete caked on the back. Is there any recommended method for removing it? Any advice would be much appreciated. By the...
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    best way to clean grout plaster adhesive paint ect off tiles

    Just been to our local newly fitted out shop i know the guy who owns it and he's asked me if i will clean the newly laid floor. Its a right mess theres loads of marks, grout, cement, plaster you name it its on there the shop fitters who laid it have told him its not there fault and wont sort it...
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    whats the best way to remove trim

    hi all i had a job today where i had to put another row of tiles on top of a shower stall . i had to cut the trim off the top as i thought it would look crap if i left it. i used a diamond blade in the mini grinder to do most of it but there was an electrical conduit in the way (i know it...

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