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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...