Just wondering guys.
Do any of you charge a bit extra for brick bonding tiles???
Doing a bathroom at the minute, and the brick bonding is taking a little longer than expected.
Any views apperciated
Tried to add pics as it looks great. white and black rectangle 20 by 10 tiles, white all...
Hi All, new to this site, need help setting out a brickbond bathroom walls. (Did a 4 week tiling course 12 months ago) most of my work has kitchen wall and floors. I have only done a couple of bathrooms none in brick bond. would u start of the bath or put a batten 1 tile up from floor and then...
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Hi Peeps
I've got a kitchen splash back to do, in a brick bond style, tiling up to the bottom of the kitchen units and into the kitchen hob hood. I'm going to work out from the centre of the cooker hood. Is there a way of setting out, as to get nice cuts around the kitchen sockets or is it...
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hi
was in Tile Clearing House today and the salesman was trying to sell me Excel Bond Rapid Set Flex, he told me it was same spec as Bal rapid flex which i was'nt sure about. Just wonder if any1 used it and if its as good as he says or is he only trying to get a sale?
cheers
John
hi guys doing ma first floor 2morrow its porcelain long tiles and they want it like a brick bond effect i need to ply is well!!i feel confident about it there polished and am gonna seal them just to be in the safe side but if anybody can give me more advice/tips it well help a lot thanks guys
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Hi all
Got a big job on in the next couple of days doing 5 houses they have 3 bathrooms and a kitchen splash back in each house ,but the property developer is supplying all adhesives and tiles. The adhesive is Excel Bond anyone used this if so how good is it to work with ?.
hi everyone again been readin the posts about mosiacs and i posted last night and yous wee brill but i was readin on the mosiac forum dont know if this makes sense but does it need to be brick bond effect??:)
i owe you all one of these:martini_shaken:
thanks
paul aka tony soprano
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Thinking of doing mates kitchen but under flaky vinyl tiles are floor tiles but not sure what kind as they look ancient would i clean with sugar soap and put sand and cement coat over before tiling. Also where this meets new extension concrete floor there is a 10mm difference where hes...
How do you do a brick bond floor? I've set the floor out ok, but just wondering how you get the 2nd row to lie exactly half a tile over from row 1, and then ensure that row 3 is exactly back in line with row 1? If you get what i mean- i was gonna mark all the tiles half way across and use that...
HI lads,just done a bathroom in Metropolitan tile[200x100mm],layed in a brick bond.Which way do you experienced lads find best to do this type of bond.I have done a fair bit of brick bond lately but whichever way i choose to set out i seem really slow.I have tried laying 3 or 4 courses and doing...
I asked topps for acrylic primer and they sold me - BAL Bond. Is this the correct one? I'm using it to seal plasterboards around a bath. Im assuming its SBR, but it just says BAL BOND on the 1 litre bottle. Also if this is the correct one, will i need to dilute it before i apply it.
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Re: Any new tilers stuck at all, with anything?
mite have a job doing a full bath room but she want's them putting on like brick work how do you set this out ?
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I was at a job yesterday starting to tile a bathroom. The bath wall origanally had a 5 tile high splash back around it, and was painted upwards from that. I checked to see if the paint was sound and it looked to be, so i began to apply Bal Bond to the walls with a roller. I left this for around...
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