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  1. G

    Building shower pan and waterproofing

    Here is the situation. I live in Alaska. I am building a shower pan so I can tile a new shower. I just put in the pan liner after I put a sloped mixed concrete I guess you would call it underlayment. I have watched quite a few videos. Anyway I watched one and the guy said to take out the...
  2. N

    Building up height of tiles

    I have a very small tile project, but I need to have tiles come up 3/4 from the concerts slab to match existing flooring. My plan was to use Ditra XL for the added thickness. Am I missing anything. Should I look at other options?
  3. M

    Building out 10mm to Plumb

    Hi, Retiling a corner shower (brick wall). Have removed tiles and one of the walls is about 10mm out of plumb on bottom half of wall. What would anyone recommend to build this out to make wall plumb before tiling? Thanks
  5. S

    Help! Have to prove fire resistance to Building Control

    I own a shop with flats above. Have applied for retrospective building regs and the building control officer is asking me to rip out bathrooms and kitchens which back onto each other and upgrade the 30 min plasterboard which the tiles are set on to 60 mins. I just haven’t got the money to do...
  6. N

    Tiling stairs existing commercial building

    Does anyone know if AS requires a nose or edge tread on stairs when tiling a common area of an existing commercial building block of units ? R10 slip resistance is required. thanx
  7. J

    Looking for self employed wall and floor tilers for new house building sites

    Hi, we run a small tiling company based in Wiltshire with most of our work on new build housing sites. We have sites in Bristol, Chippenham, Swindon and Calne. We are always expanding and looking for self employed tilers to help out with whatever days they can. They must have experience, CSCS...
  9. Dave

    Building trade hit by shortages

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57247757
  10. F

    Installing 20mm porcelain tiles in garden, can I use regular building sand+cement?

    As the title suggests I'm hoping to get some good advice from you folks about tile adhesive for tiling 20mm porcelain tiles in a garden. The base hasn't been prepared yet but I imagine it will be 75mm concrete to an area of 8M x 4M. Forgive my ignorance but I haven't done this before so i'm...
  11. S

    Looking for wall and floor tiling work. Completed City and Guilds level 1 diploma (Leeds College of Building

    Looking for wall and floor tiling work. Completed City and Guilds level 1 diploma (Leeds College of Building) Hi I’m Furrukh finish level 1 wall and floor tiling diploma , I’m looking some work I've got my own tools & transport. I’m leeds West Yorkshire can travel. Thanks
  13. D

    Advice needed about building a granite floored wetroom in farmhouse, floor is breathable limecrete

    Hi, I am going to build a small (7m2) wet room on the ground floor of a granite farmhouse. The rest of the ground floor is drained breathable limecrete. In the wetroom at present there is compressed (structural) drainable Foam Glass insulation (Misapor). The insulating slab (lime/Misapor/sand)...
    • DAX
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    • advice breathable building canada floor floor tiling granite needed tanking waterproofing wetroom wetroom tiling
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  14. P

    Marriott Ceramics and Building Services

    A reliable and trustworthy professional tiler based nr Berwick Upon Tweed, available for commercial and domestic work in the Scottish Borders, East Lothian and Northumberland. All aspects of tiling are covered: Demolition: removal of old tiles/fittings; a complete service is provided...
  15. B

    This guy is in the wrong job, should be in the building trade!

    Tavares Tavares - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1022011821218716/permalink/1634364766650082/
    • Blunt Tool
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    • building job jobs should this tiling job tiling jobs tiling work trade work
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: General Off-topic Chat
  17. Minmax89

    building a wetroom finished with Microcement

    Hi guys. So, I've been asked to do a bathroom for a customer but I'm not sure the best way to go about it. It's an ensuite in an old georgian house, 1st floor. I went to see the job a few weeks ago but could actually get into the room as it was full of building materials (they're renovating...
  18. B

    StoneFix Tile Adhesive

    How many people have used stonefix in the last year?
  19. F

    Acumen Building, surplus Moroccan handmades for sale

    Good afternoon all, After a few client amendments, we have a surplus of Popham Moroccan handmade tiles for sale. All boxed, some boxes open but tiles are wrapped. Open to offers, we have the following available, please contact me HERE, located in Watford but can deliver; 1. Hex Arrow 200x230mm...
    • Fraser Acumen
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    • building for sale sale
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: The Welcome Forum
  21. K

    Advice Needed on Building out Wall Depth?

    Hi all I've been asked to completely refurbish the in-laws bathroom and they've taken it on themselves to do the donkey work of removing tiles, wall coverings etc. in preparation. Anyway, the walls were tiled lower down all the way round and papered/texture coated above. When they've removed...
  22. Lou

    Sussex Building Solutions

    Personalise your bathrooms, kitchen and other living areas with high-quality wall and floor tiles. Sussex Building Solutions can source suitable tiles and add to the look and feel of your interiors. We specialise in both traditional and contemporary tiling and source our supplies from leading...
  23. K

    Building up on marmox for mosaics

    Hi all, My marmox shower tray is quite lower than my floor tiles since laid so is it ok to build it up with adhesive and shape to the drain prior to laying the mosaics. It's mainly on the back wall the porcelain mosaics are approx 8mm the floor tiles are 10mm and the difference from the shower...
    • kelvin
    • Thread
    • backerboard building canada marmox marmox backerboard mosaic mosaic tiling mosaics tile backerboard
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  25. B

    Protecting floorboards in a listed building

    We will be tiling 3 bathrooms in a grade 2 listed building next month. Two of them are upstairs and have rather uneven old floorboards. As those boards are part of the "historic fabric" I cannot damage them with adhesive of any kind so I have to overboard them, again without adhesive. I think...
    • BoldreChris
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    • building canada floor floor tiling floorboards ply
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  26. C

    BAL Building A Raised Deck / Balcony - Advice Please

    We have a bungalow built on a sloping site so the floor at the back is around 1.5 metres above the outside ground level. We want to build a balcony / raised deck and to keep costs to a minimum I am planning to build two brick piers around 2 metres from the back wall and around 4.5 metres apart...
    • completehandy
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    • adhesive advice bal bal adhesive balcony building building adhesives grout please
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Tile Adhesive and Grout Advice
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