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Hi all. Same wall, customer has asked if I would charge any difference in price between the 2 tile installations above. 8sq m area. I will definitely charge more for the smaller brickbond tiles but the question is, how much? I hate doing brickbond as it takes a lot more time (in my opinion)...

Hi All, Been absorbing all you advice and tips on here.... top work guys! I am currently tiling my bathroom in 600 x 300 porcelain floor to ceiling and have two questions which affect two different walls Question 1 - I have sink which is 600 wide and I have already stuck the tile behind it...

been asked again to reduced my costs for fixing these brick slips we have been fixing for a while already reduced it by 25% :yikes: what would you guys think would be a fair price for for tiling and then for pointing inc materials to include travel hotels ect most of the areas are columns arches...

Hi, Doing my wetroom but want to know is the best method going to be to dot n dab cement boards to brick wall or to run a membrane over the wall? Im going to use wickes aquapanel or wickes tanking fleece for this - cant really see, if installed correctly, these products can be any different to...

just found out how to upload pics been struggling since the forum changed a while back lol the job we just finished in Stratford 50000 bricks pointed http://www.tilersforums.com/members/pjc/albums/bricks/

Hi , what percentage do you lot add on when measuring for brick bond , i normally add on 10% for normal , just finished a brickbond bathroom i thought was ten mtrs inc 10% add on but the customer ended up getting a extra 4 mtrs and i only got paid for what i quoted ( 10mtrs ), which leads me on...

Just been given a 2 day job to tile a porch. I popped around today to have a quick look and found painted brick & quarry tiles. I know the paint will have to come off, but do you think that a layer of SLC would be best suited before I tile? Slate tiles are to be laid, but I am concerned...

Guys, question... when tiling brick bond on large format tiles.... When you cut tiles in to the corner.. should you use the other peice of cut tile to continue on the next wall? I always assumed so.. but then I was checking out Kilty55's wetroom he did recently (GREAT JOB BY THE WAY) and in...

I am brick bonding 250mm (length) x 200mm (height) ceramic tiles. I am trying to figure out how to layout the wall shown in pic below, the larger wall which is where the bath is located (to the left of the pic) has a near perfect pattern (i.e ending in either a full tile or half tile). If I...

hello everyone. I am glad to be here! :smilewinkgrin: Can anyone tell me whether it's feasible to use large ceramic tiles on brickwork? We started to remove things from a bathroom in order to tile it and large amounts of plaster came away. Seems it is all blown and has to be removed. Is...

Hi I am in the process of adhering these real brick tiles to my bathroom wall. They are 230x75x20 (lxhxd) and am leaving a 10-12ml gap between the brick tiles. I want to use a Limestone Coloured grout and am looking at Bal Wide Joint and Bal Superflex Wide Joint. Can anyone recommend which...

Doing a job this weekend terrazzo stairs, but the guy has asked me if i could clean up some of his brick work, i said i would have a go, is it as simple as getting into it with a wire brush and some brick cleaner from b and q it looks as if it was done years ago and the guys not cleaned it...

hi,i have just taken old wall tiles off in my bathroom and the old plaster has come off leaving uneven brickwork,i am just asking if it woulod be possible to tile over the brickwork and make the tiles even with the tile adhesive.

Is it possible to use a brick mortar gun for grouting? Using black grout for a bathroom floor so just thinking for the cleaning up after. Any advice would help Cheers

Okay, so I'm pretty sure what I'm doing with this job, but have a few queries.... The floor is wet UFH covered with Gyvlon screed. The main living area and hallway are going to be calibrated sandstone (600 x 300 x 22mm), the kitchen is reclaimed brick slips that will be machined to a...

Will this adhesive do to dot and dab on bare brick? Hi all I bought some Ultra Pro rapid porcelaine tile ahesive to dab on backerboards before tiling, but now I have decided to use plasterboard instead...

Hi all, I was going to use Hardi Backer boards but have decided to dot and dab plasterboard onto the bare brick instead. Problem is,, I have already used Ultra fexible primer to prime the brick and dont know if this will be alright with drywall adhesive as they say to use pva as a primer for...

Hi Guys, Ive finished a kitchen brick bond style where ive wrapped round the walls. Now ready to grout but need your advice in whether i should grout in vertical corners or leave it as it might spoil the effect of the wrap round effect. Tiles are polished black 200 x 100 and will be...

I'm tiling a kitchen floor over a suspended wooden floor (overboarded). At the rear of the kitchen is a large doorway and windows to the garden, wooden framed but mounted in the concrete/brick. The brickwork is approx 150mm wide, it and the overboarded floor are at the same height and tiles...

After something of a hiatus, my tiling project (bathroom and toilet) is back on, and I've made a start by actually putting some tiles on the toilet wall! To be honest I was putting it off... felt like a painter putting that first brush-stroke on the canvas... Anyway I've started on one wall of...