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  1. 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...
  3. 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
  4. 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
    • Thread
    • building canada floor floorboards ply
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  5. 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
  6. 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...
    • Rizzle from the Portizzle
    • Thread
    • aus building show tile
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. P

    Supply chains

    i was wondering if anybody could shine any light on how you get onto contractors supply chains
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. T

    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!
    • terrycoe1
    • Thread
    • aus building general job jobs tiling jobs tiling work usa work
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
  13. G

    Mr T has left the building

    At the request of Ash aka Mr T. He has asked for his profile to be deleted.
  14. 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 -...
  15. A

    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...
  16. 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:
  17. 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...
    • richouse
    • Thread
    • aus building fireplace height job jobs porcelain porcelain tile porcelain tiles tiling tiling jobs tiling work usa work
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
  18. B

    Building new exsion - woodchip, ply or somwthing else?

    Hi everyone, I am having an extension built at the moment. My builder didn't seem interested in doing the tiling so I said I'd find my own tiler. The extension will have a suspended floor and I think the builder is planning on installing 22mm chipboard and assuming the tiler will work from...
    • bigmac
    • Thread
    • aus building new build ply usa
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
  19. C

    building a wooden fence

    Alright guys, any advice on building a wooden fence (4ft ish) , my plan: dig holes for pre treated posts (every 2 meters) then plant posts in cement ( about a foot) make sure they are all plumb, then screw in the horizontal bits then the slats. Any further advice would be great if any of you...
    • charlie1
    • Thread
    • aus building usa wooden
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
  20. widler

    Building websites

    This has prob been done a few times, but after building my own, which i don't think its too bad seeing as im computer illiterate,and have the patiance of a bullmastiff on redbull, i would like to know how much would it cost to have one built? And who builds them? Im stii not sold on them but...
  21. W

    Building Surveyor with tiling expertise?

    Does anyone know of any Chartered Building surveyor with tiling expertise - located in the Ashford/Folkestone area please? Or any solicitor who has fought a case for bad tiling?
    • wildfirejc
    • Thread
    • building tiling usa
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum

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