Starting a shower room on Monday and my customer informed me yesterday she has picked slate brickslips (see pic) as a 300 wide vertical border on the wall up the centre of a 1700 shower tray.. The shower area will be tanked but am a little concerned these shouldn't perhaps be used in a wet...
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Just been to look at a job where the client has chosen to use a tile from fired Earth called Lubelska brick tile which from what I can gather are reclaimed brick tile similar to a terracotta tile. My question is with regards to the prep work. The substrate is old existing...
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I've popped over from the plumbing forum. I'll be doing a bit of tiling in a bathroom for a friend of mine and he wants his wall tiles to set out in a vertical brick bond fashion. I've done a fair amount of tiling but have never had to do a vertical brick bond. My normal fashion is to...
Hi,would appreciate your opinions on what wall substrate would be the best to tile to in an upcoming new from scratch installation.Two sides are back to bare brick and the other two sides will be a stud construction,not sure what size tile but will most probably be 8mm ceramic,i'm quite tight...
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Have a floor to tile in flooring grade brick tiles(50mm thick) Not done these before and only seen a sample.Customer wants them laid like block paving i.e no joints and I presume with some sort of pattern-maybe herringbone.Firstly,is that possible?-no u/f heating either and this is where...
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I have been asked to tile the insides of an old chimney breast that is going to have a log burner fitted once tiled.
Any hints and tips please......like is it best to pre seal the slips before tiling?.....prefered tile adhesive?.....
Thanks in advance
Hi guys great forum you have got here!
have just recently bought a house in the KT8 and were looking to create a grey brick feature wall in the living room. Something similar to the link below:
The wall is roughly 12 m² and is currently painted we were hoping we could find someone who can...
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Hi, I have a job to look at were the customer has purchased 1mm thick 200 x 75mm glass brick effect tiles from walls and floors. Just wondering what the adhesive to use with these tiles as there glass and 1mm thin? she also want's a silver star speckled like grout. :smilewinkgrin:
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I picked out a glass brick mosaic for my kitchen splashback but the tiler my builder used has mucked up the laying. :mad2:Pic album is here https://plus.google.com/photos/105874346378556371679/albums/5989776281302338497?authkey=CNmPxoDb4fyWHw
There was slumping and I could see...
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I have 400/600mm tiles that I'll lay brick bond on the floor but also thinking of laying them brick bond on the walls - the cuts work out better.
I can't see any pictures of 400/600 size tiles laid brick bond on walls and wondering if there was a reason no one seems to do it. Is it going...
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When a job comes in where customer wants brick affect on the floor do you guys do 50/50 or maybe 70/30? The last few jobs the tiles haven't been very flat so had to go 70/30 with 3mm spacer. What would you guys do
Anyone wanting brick slips doing should give pjc off this forum a call. His lads have just finished on a job I recommended him for and the work is top quality. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him again. The two blokes he sent were great and left the site nice and tidy as well.
Tiling into one corner with large 600x300 porcelain tiles. The wall to the right on the photo is exactly 2 1/2 tiles wide so at the corner there will be either a full tile or half one.
Do i carry the cut 300mm half round the corner, and in the course above/below join a full one to a full one...
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Can anyone help!..... I am having a log burner installed and using hardibacker in the fireplace chamber and need to know if I need to seal the boards if using a none cement tile adhesive. The adhesive I will be using is vitcas heat resistant tile adhesive and will be putting 20mm brick...
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I am new to this sight and was wondering what adhesive I should use to fix real brick slips to my chimney breast? I have had to remove my existing fire surround and open up the fireplace for installation of a wood burner. The plaster on the breast is solid but crazed so I thought brick slips...
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Ok lets see what you would charge for this.
Terracotta Brick | Fired Earth
Laid as photo Herringbone
Anhydrite screed ( Dry) but neeeds sanding etc
Prime with Tilemaster primer, tile with Anhyfix
Following instruction re, 1st coat sealer after fixing, Grout, Seal then wax.
Area 20m2 with new...
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Hi,
Looking to have approx 8sqm of tiling in brick bond using 200 x 100 mm metro tiles done in my kitchen starting the job by the end of this week if possible.
Walls are in good condition and ready to tile.
Was planning on doing it myself but had a new kitchen fitted and it looks so good it...
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Afternoon all, I was hoping someone could help me.
I'm looking to buy a particular type of tile for my bathroom and an on-suite. I need about 28 sqm so was looking at purchasing 30 sqm to allow for breakages etc.
Topps Tiles sell the style but it costs ***** per sqm which is miles out of my...