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  1. C

    Ropey builders

    Hi I hope someone can advise please? In Brief: New extension with shower tray already down by builders. Timber joists with 18 mm chipboard floor, they have not glued the T&G joints or glued down. I have put more screws in (Spax flooring screws) & used dowels and gorilla glue to get some glue...
  2. M

    Builders ruined a floor :(

    Hi guys. I'm new to this forum and I'm in some need of advice. Halfway through a major refurb at home. I've got a timber floor downstairs and bought some 60x60 porcelain tiles. My builder took off all old floorboards, for the wiring and plumbing work etc, however he replaced it with 18mm marine...
  3. G

    Builders Tiling job - is this acceptable?

    Hi, I'm having my bathroom renovated and would really appreciate some advice as I've heard/read conflicting information and would like to know where I stand. The job is due to finish around the of this week. The tiles are 600x300mm and 9mm thick porcelain. Please see the attached image, which...
    • gee
    • Thread
    • builders canada job jobs this tiling tiling job tiling jobs tiling work work
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    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  5. B

    Builders using Hardiebacker boards

    well after years of trying to convince one of the builders I do work for he’s finally ditched the plywood and is now using Hardiebacker boards. He’s now a convert and is going to use them wherever tiling is required. I showed him in a small bathroom today how to glue and screw them, I could have...
    • Blunt Tool
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    • boards builders canada hardiebacker
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  6. Chalker

    Builders will love these

    maybe plumbers too ( coughs!)
  7. Andy Allen

    Getting the builders in....

    Anyone else watching this program on the telly...? It's on BBC 1... And well worth a watch. Some of the tiling in the bathroom refits....... Well.... You have to see it, more lips than mick jagger... And the prices compared to the customers budgets are laughable...
  9. M

    Anhydrite Screed - Builder Nightmare - Which Hygrometer

    Should have walked into a job that was left"perfect" by the customers builder on Monday but its gone to pot. Long story short its been down for 6 weeks but the Laitance had not been removed. Builder had no idea what it was. Has done loads of these floors apparently. Also two substrates (old...
    • McLovin
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    • adhesive anhydrite builder builders canada moisture screed which
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  10. T

    Surprised by two builders!

    Well as the title suggests, this week I've been pleasantly surprised by two builders that I've met with on two different projects about doing some work along side them not for them. When talking to both of them about what will be going on the floor they have looked up and mentioned about the...
  11. J

    How do you deal with cowboys

    Absolutely furious with some cowboy builders who are completely taking the biscuit. They've not done near as much as they should have on any given day and are holding up the whole show. And their work is shoddy as heck. I mean they mustn't know how to use a level and clearly haven't the...
    • jimbob
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    • builders canada deal how leveling preparation preparing
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  13. M

    Builders doing Tiling, Matting Mesh stuck, Expansion gap not wanted - Advice

    Hi Started a job today and been thrown a few curve balls. Customer had tiles cracking grout breaking up (builder said he could do the tiling). Customer said half the tiles had been fixed to concert and half to floor boards. Sounded like a simple tear up, secure floor boards, fix Hardie backer...
    • McLovin
    • Thread
    • advice builders canada expansion floorboards gap latex matting not slc tiling wanted
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  14. Chalker

    Builders Priming

    finally you get a builder to use acrilic primer and they go and use it neat! Came off like cling film .
  15. F

    Builders Bodges

    I've seen a lot of builders weird ideas before, this morning was a new one. Went to tile a floor I had previously seen, I was due to level it in places as it was a bit up and down, got there this morning and it's had a load of leveling mixed 50 50 with grit sand put down, it's as wavey as the...
  17. W

    Builders Again!!!!!

    I got a call off a builder I work for regularly asking me to book a small kitchen floor in for him. He said there was a day's work tops. Moved a job back a day then called to look at the kitchen floor. 45 sqm random length stone,crack mat, kitchen and conservatory with ufh why do they think...
  18. T

    This Is Why People Should Ask Tilers And Not Builders, For Tiling Advise!

    This is the greatest forum in the world EVER..... [Now thats the arse kissing out the way] I do occasionally find myself wandering of to diynot.com to see if I can offer my two pennies worth to people who might need it. Some of the advise given if you read through their tiling section is truly...
    • Tile Shop
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    • builders canada find a tiler not people should this tiler tilers tilers directory tiling
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  19. M

    Payment Terms Builders

    Hello fellow fixers!....... So just interested to hear back on this one......what sort of payment terms do you work on with your existing builders and would a new builder be any different you hadn't worked for in the past??.......good to get some advice from all you pros out there Cheers Mark
  21. W

    Builders!!!!

    just been to look at a job where the builder had bought some sandstone 3 inch thick,8 inch tall and 40 inch long. They were still damp and he asked me to stick them above a ground floor window as a feature. The wall was painted render and it was raining as well. He said just knock some rapid set...
  22. gamma38

    Special Builder

    I received an enquiry regarding some split faced mosaic on a feature fireplace, the builder used trim to finish the corners. You can't do that I said, they have to be mitred.... and so on. Can you come and have a look. It looked shocking. I got the job of fixing the builders **** up. I also had...
  23. Dave

    Builders from hell.

    Thought I would start a thread on builders who prep jobs etc and then expect them to be tiled.. Tell us your experiences on what you have been expected to tile over the yrs.. P.s .. Don't mention names :) ..
  25. John Benton

    Builders at it again!

    5 years in to this bathroom and I don't for 1 minute believe it wasn't leaking from day 1. Stud wall was rotten from floor to 3 ft high Shower wall was 12mm ply Tiles in niches fixed directly onto studwork Tiles dot n dabbed directly onto chipboard floor Porcelain tiles 60x30 fixed on all walls...
  26. K

    unpaid invoice

    Hi Wondering if anyone can help.... I started work for a re-fit contractor on a hotel in january I was getting messed about from day one I warned them that work would be suspended unless they started paying what was owed for the work carried out they promised they would pay £11.000 by mid...
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