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Hi, Running a small bathroom job for a customer. Customer really wants to use a particular 600x300x9 porcelain tile he has picked out in a brick bond pattern. The back wall of the shower cubicle is awkwardly a little over 600 wide. It's also on the wonk in a proper pyramid shape, but all...

Hi all, Doing our kitchen renovation and would really like to use some brick slips, for the 3 recessed sections (angled to the left, chimney recess and large section to the right) The wall has been boarded with dab adhesive, with a skim over the top with 1 paint coat over a mist. I did a...

Hey would anyone be able to help me removing acid burn/vanadium stains (mainly greenish/yellowish with small amount of orange) from white/grey clay brick tiles? They came about (long strong) from Hydrochloric acid (muriatic acid) use on them to remove some insanely tough dirt. I've looked on...

Hi guys following on from my previous wet room build here: Full Wetroom Build Thread - Start to finish - https://www.tilersforums.com/threads/full-wetroom-build-thread-start-to-finish.88057/ My next project is doing 45sqm of recalimed 150 year old bricks. So let's start! The basic build up is...

My bathroom walls are currently tiled halfway and then plastered up to the ceiling, they will be tiled floor to ceiling with 600x300x8mm ceramic tiles. The general consensus is that when the tiles are removed the bricks will be exposed. The first tiler advised the bricks will need to be...

Hi guys Just about to do 45Sqm of brick floor and was after any tips if anyone has any? Bricks are 20mm thick, Handmade buff terracotta 110 x 240mm. The sizes do vary quite considerably... Screed is Anhydrite 50mm with wet UFH, screed has had lattice removed. My current plan is: Primer with...

hi, I have got one side of my shower that is a masonry brick wall (looker plaster removed) that I’ve got a couple of queries on regarding the fixing of wedi board (or similar) 1. Will using tile adhesive to fix the wediboard be ok? Does the wall need priming first? The wall on the whole is...

Has anyone had much experience of floor tiling using brick slips? If so, what sort of price did you charge vs traditional tiles? Any help/advice appreciated by a newbie!!

Hello For sale is 200 square meters of brick slips. These are genuine clay slips suitable for external, internal, walls and floors. The pictures show a range of different finishes. Delivery is available, could potentially split into 100 or 50SQM depending Please send me a private message to...

Hi guys and gals! Hope you're all keeping well. The missus is begging me to do our bathroom. I'm always doing everyone else's and ours is ****, she says. Our house is an old workers cottage from around 1906 and is build with slate and lime mortar mainly then with red brick accents around...

Hi Slowly getting round to preparing a new shower cubicle and the question I've asked myself is what to do with one of the cubicle walls that currently has a pretty thin layer of plaster over brick? Originally the wall was paintend and I have a feeling I should have ripped the plaster off...

Hi does anyone know where I may get any old stock of these tiles: Pastorelli Guiglia in Brick colour size 30 x 30. Products Catalogue - http://en.pastorellitiles.com/prodotti/cave-del-panaro_1/ Despite the, still being on the website, These were available about 6 months ago but typically now...

Hi I have someone that has messed up tiling brick slips to the front of my house and wish to take them off and start again. The slips were put on with flexible adhesive which was attached to the old brickwork. They have not yet been mortared in. Before I try hacking the slips off can anyone...

Hi All I got some slips laid at the front of my house and I’m not happy with the job - some of the rows are a bit off, and when I challenged the brickie he said the slips are not cut straight and couldn’t be laid straight so I told him to stop the job. My assumption is despite brick slips being...

Hi guys, I've done a few brick slip jobs for a builder that I tile for and enjoy the work, but he gets one of his brickies to point the job once I've finished. But I've picked up a couple of my own brick slip jobs recently and would like to point them up myself, but have never done so & would...

Hi all, really looking for advice here. Really want to spend some time improving the garden this year and I have some really ugly low brick walls on the patio which I was planning on tiling. I've never tiled before so wanted to get some advice on if this was actually possible (tile straight...

Hello, I have built an extension and the existing exterior brick wall now becomes part of my wet room upstairs. The other walls are stud work which I intend to fit some kind of tiling board to. What is the best way to prepare the brick wall? I have thought of either a sand and cement finish, or...

Hi We have a shower mounted above a bath. If the shower head is accidentally knocked so the spray is directed onto the tiles rather than into the bath, water penetrates behind the cracked grout and/or silicon seal. If the shower runs for some time water will run behind the tiles and drips from...

hi all, Looking for some advice. Tiling 20mm thick brick slips onto 12mm ply wood on the walls. It is fixed very well. I am just wondering what prep people would do and what adhesive you would use. Changing the ply for plasterboard or hardi is not a option.

Hi, Just about to do some brick tiling. When you centre the first tile on the row above, do you centre it on the grout line or at the edge of the tile below? So does the middle of the tile above go inline with the grout line or the edge of tile Hope that makes sense! Thanks