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

    Tavares Tavares - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1022011821218716/permalink/1634364766650082/
  2. 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...
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    StoneFix Tile Adhesive

    How many people have used stonefix in the last year?
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    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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. R

    Building A Stand For A Show

    well been hard at it building a stand for Sleep Exhibition 2015, two hotel bathrooms, working planning, and on top sorting out the tilling on the Harrods stand. Well here are, the stands we built from start to finish. A lot of hard work getting it there in one peice , and i cant thank...
  10. R

    Building a full height boxing at end of bath for niches

    Hi all New member here! Currently trying to finish off the bathroom part of a full house refurbishment - this has been the trickiest area to design and get right so far! The bathroom is small square shaped, 2m x 2m with an L-shaped shower/bath next to a large window, with the WC and wall...
  11. T

    building a curved internal stud wall

    Hi, Looking for some advice.... A returning client has came to me in a bit of a dilemma and requires quite a large job to go ahead immediately. We have knocked down internal walls and lifted floor, new room to consist of wet floor all off one slab of marble templated and cut for falls ideally...
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    Supply chains

    i was wondering if anybody could shine any light on how you get onto contractors supply chains
  13. C

    building a concrete footbath

    I have a customer who would like a concrete footpath built. It is merely 4m long and a metre wide. She is thinking about the topps tiles mosaic in the victorian style. Now, the two builders who have quoted to build this concrete path, which in my eyes is excavation, compaction, (dpm?) setting...
  14. area tiling

    Building up layers of adhesive onto plasterboard

    I was wanting to know can you build up tile adhesive to sort out a problem with a shower tray that hasn't been fitted Square ?? At the furthest away point from the wall it's about 12 and at the closest point it's about 8mm , I was thinking of using a 12mm trowel and tapering it out till next to...
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    General building work

    Hi have a query that needs a answer looking to nock down a existing garage that's located at the end of a garden and replace it with a wooden car port one would this require planning permission and two rough price for the cost of this! Any general builders advice wud be great!
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    Mr T has left the building

    At the request of Ash aka Mr T. He has asked for his profile to be deleted.
  17. Andy Allen

    VAT on a listed building..?

    never heard of this one before, had this email off a customer wanting someone that's VAT reg for this reason......anyone heard of this before..? Andrew Allen Very sorry, but we are hoping to use someone who is VAT registered (our project has listed building consent so is zero-rated -...
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    Building regs... Part p

    One for Keith at u heat I think. Or of course any one knowledgeable about part p If I were to put an electric cable underfloor heating system into my screed and hard wire it through a stat into a spur it would be classed as a fixed wiring circuit and would become notifiable to building control...
  19. kilty55

    building control?

    hi i have a customer who wants to build an en suite with stud walls from scratch in an existing bedroom i assume he will have to contact buiding control? any advice peeps:thumbsup:
  20. R

    Porcelain Tiling to Brickwork and building up height within Fireplace

    Hi, Im trying to identify the best method to do 2 tasks prior to installing a wood burning stove within an existing brick chimney. Ultimately I want to have porcelain tiels on the hearth and around the inside of the brick chimney. 1. Build up the height of the fireplace hearth by around an...

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