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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

Is there any reason why you cant tile directly onto brickwork if you use plenty of good adhesive? I have a shallow brick fireplace recess which i am preparing for a wood burning stove It measures about 110cm H 65cm W and 30cm D. I was considering just using cement board but i have some smart...

Hi all, First time tiler. Decided to tile the kitchen after a fire destroyed the old one. I need a bit of advice as to which layout I should use for the pipe which has been boxed in. Do I ignore the bond on the arch, split each side of the boxing into half and brick bond? Or do I continue the...

I will be tiling external brick wall but more I think about it the more questions I have: 1. does the brick wall need to be prepared in a special way - ie is there a primer that i need to use to seal it before tiling? 2. adhesive - I was thinking about ARDEX x77 ? 3. are there external metal...

hello I'm a new member and wondering if anyone can give me advice whether mirrored metro brick tiles are suitable for kitchen splashback and behind the hob? Would the glass crack or the grouting come off due to heat? Or the silver of the glass becomes distressed? The thickness of the glass...

hi I bought 200mm by 500mm Argenta Camargue Perla ceramic tiles and Bal Grip plus tub... to find out the Bal Grip plus isn't up to the job because of the size of the the tiles. I see from other threads there is a more 'professional look' way to lay tiles, so we are not sure how to lay them...

I gave a step to tile it's 6ft x 6ft with to steps up to the main platform it's brick build then backfilled with concrete would it be acceptable to use something like kerdi membrane to cover the whole thing or even the old homelux wetroom fabric or sold I just go ditra drain or similar? ? The...

been asked to to lay 3 walls brick bond and the wall with the bath they want a mosaic strip in the middle with tiles either side with straight joints My question is will this look good Anyone seen it before ?? 400 x 250 white tiles