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Has any one used the quick point mortar gun ? or any ideas on how to point bricks 20mm thick quickly ? its hard work grouting them with sand and cement :mad2:

Hi gang, so I'm working on a bathroom and behind the tiles was a morass. One wall is the outside wall of brick previously plasterboard dot and dabbed, the other plasterboard on stud and failed under tile removal. Want to Wedi board the enclosure 80x80 but can I dot and dab Wedi to brick or do I...

Hi All Im tiling my small bathroom with 415x300 tiles, brick bond style and have heard that if you are not very carefull in corners when using the remainder of the tile you have just cut, you can loose the brick bond line, if that makes sense...!!! Something to do with thicness of tile plus...

Hi All I will soon be starting my bathroom walls using large format (450 x 300 approx tiles) and was wondering how many of you use more of an offset pattern as opposed to the standard brick joint. I was in a local showroom and they had a bathroom wall tilled in this style, I'm not sure of...

I am tiling travertine in a brick pattern. I will be wrapping this around the walls as best as I can. I have done a window ledge and followed the pattern, but am wondering whether or not to follow this for the window verticals. I have two windows in my bathroom. Three of the inside verticals...

Haven't been asked for this sorta thing for YEARS! starting a job on monday for a customer of mine who always has 'wacky' ideas..this one is to tile the kitchen in brick slips cut (by me!) from very old london stocks to make the kitchen look like exposed wall..they are even going as far as...

Hey everyone, I've got a job coming up as described, I was just wanting to know if anyone out ther had done anything similar, as its not you run of the mill tiing job especially the thickness of tile/brick (42mm). Would you recommend floor or wall trowel, rapid or standard set, or any other...

we all know these tiles, 150 x 70, 15 mm ish bevel. I've done white before with white grout and silicon and black tiles with black grout and silicon. Currently doing black tiles with white grout. My concern is the corners where the gap fluctuates between 2 and about 4/5mm because of the bevel...

Hello All, There are a few threads knocking about on the subject but I've been searching for some of these basic white brick tiles without a bevelled edge for a while online and have not come up with many alternatives. Topps Tiles and many others supply similar tiles in 20 x 10 dimensions but...

I have just removed a cast iron bath and intend to replace it with a shower. Beneath the bath there is only bare bricks. Under the existing tiles is a sand/cement render. I wil remove the tiles above and re-tile. The area beneath I will have to render. How long before I can tile over? How do I...

Hi, I am plasterboarding a brick wall with dot and dab prior to tiling and the brick wall needs preparation, I am looking to use SBR. Where can I get it from?

Hi Again........ I have been reading with interest on the forum about Brick Bond. Well I have read conflicting views regarding the wrap onto next wall.......should it be carried on if you finish with a cut of 15cm and the tiles are 40cm - should the next tile be 25cm. I have had a look at a...

Hi I am very much a newbie - so bear with me........ I have read many of the thread here and find them really useful. I am tiling my bathroom but would like to do it brick Bond style - I have the tiles 300 x 400mm and would like to have the pattern horizontal, (400mm ) but after measuring it...

doing a kitchen splashback at the minute andusing black briwck effect tiles. the bevelled edge ones 200x100. anyway, whats the score with the corners? do you make the cut then use the other part of the tile round the corner so it looks like the tile is wrapping round the corner or do you just...

any done many jobs where brick pattern was specified? 1 centering it up. one row will have more than half a tile at the end of the wall but the next row up will have less than half a tile or even a thin peice which would then be every other row;. 2 also wondering about going round corners...

Here goes...im laying brick bond tiling in my bathroom...The first course of tiles(all full tiles)when laid out gives me a small slither at the far end.Could start with a half tile but when it comes to the second course Im gonna end up with the same prob...Any suggestions...Im a newbie when it...

I am installing Hardie backer board for my shower cubicle. I am putting them onto two stud walls. I have already installed it on one wall. This wall runs at a length of about 1.1ish metres wide so I have cut them down and installed them one on top of the other. The other wall is around 1.6...

Hi Guys I decided on the white grout in the end and thought I'd share my so far pics!! Next job is glitter grout on bathroom floor - pics to follow... Thanks again to everyone for their advice! I'm pleased as punch!

Just thought i would put a couple of pics on of a recent job, really enjoyed this job and the client was over the moon with the finished result.

hi guys. ive found my original kitchen floor in my cottage. it was buried under a latex floor screed for 30 odd years. it is made from yellow floor brick pamments (or it could just be yellow bricks). anyhow , they look like they have been sealed over their life time and have dulled down to a...