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  1. S

    Help with uneven chipboard floor to level and prep for tiles

    Hello, I hope you can help me ... My kitchen was tiled over concrete floor but tiles were cracking because floor had different levels and was uneven. To fix this the contractors have used 15 or 18 mm wp chipboard over the old tiles with a lot of adhesive but the problem still persists as you can...
  2. M

    Porcelain tiling

    Looking some advice fixing 60x60 porcelain 1 tile high on a kitchen splash. Be ok to use ready mixed adhesive?
  3. D

    split slate.any recommendations on a good colour enhancer and sealer in a matt finish.

    hi there just finished an outside wall in split slate.any recommendations on a good colour enhancer and sealer in a matt finish.
    • Dwilson
    • Thread
    • canada colour finished just matt outside sealer there wall
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  5. Sean-tries-to-tile

    Anyone know how to tile on seraphite? Primer?

    I have just been told this is seraphite, just about to tile it, wasn't going to prime as I thought it was just sand/cement. House is 1955. Cheers
  6. B

    Quick step by step sanity check!

    Good afternoon all. I am a keen DIYer (at home) but have never tiled! I want to tile our small en suite bathroom as a first go, and thought I'd run past my logic with a pro who wouldn't mind a quick bit of input! I have completely gutted the room, rebuilt/plumbed etc and almost ready to prep...
  7. A

    Beginner technique valid or not?

    If i find floor tiling too much of a challenge following standard procedures, would it be OK if I took my time and literally back trowelled the tile only and laid 1 tile at a time like that? I had a go at trowelling the floor with a 10x10mm square notch to lay 20x20cm tile but made a bit of...
  9. A

    What notch type/size for this tile please?

    I am a DIYer so please bear with me, this is my first floor tile project which happens to be our bathroom. Its a small tile area of no more than 1.8 x 1.5 m , the floor is timber but very solid and flat. I laid Ditra matting on top so is now ready to be tiled. The tiles are 20x20cm glazed...
  10. X

    Why have the tiles cracked?

    Hi all, I posted on here about a year ago as we had a lot of problems with newly fitted bathrooms. We hoped our troubles were (mostly) behind us however a year on and the floor tiles have cracked. Could anyone offer any thoughts as to why they are cracking? I will attach photos....the crack runs...
  11. S

    UFH and herringbone porecelain

    Hi, I’ve just had an extension added to my kitchen. The new kitchen space will be roughly half and half (total 56m2) with the original half having no UFH and the new half will have a wet system installed. I’ve bought 90cm x 15 cm tiles which I want laying in herringbone style. I’m now concerned...
  13. C

    Loose wall tiles

    Hi all, I had my bathroom tiled about 5 months ago and yesterday I noticed cracking in the caulk around the window reveal. When I push on the tiles around it, it closes up the crack (even tiles further down), so looks like multiple tiles have debonded from the wall, almost like the wall is...
  14. R

    Attaching brick slips to painted plasterboard and other questions

    Hi Tilers, this is my first question on this forum and I've got a few different areas to cover! I am a DIYer, working on renovating a kitchen, utility room and cloakroom/shower room. My previous experience of tiling is using large format porcelain tiles onto cement/foam backer board, on floors...
    • Roshep
    • Thread
    • brick brick slips canada painted plasterboard questions slips
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  15. G

    2 cracked tiles on a new bathroom refurb - advice please

    I had my bathroom refurbished 5 weeks ago and I’ve just noticed that there’s a hairline crack going through 2 tiles and the grout line in-between. I don’t think this was there when it was completed but I’ve noticed it now as I’ve just had my first bath so it could have been like this for weeks...
  17. faceman

    Floor tiles debonding after UFH turned on

    Hi I've got a problem on a building site with a floor. The UFH was turned on last week and now the floor tiles have debonded. In my opinion the floor was to hot but was assured the manifold was set to low. However the wall stat read 22 degrees. I was told if the doors were kept shut the heating...
    • faceman
    • Thread
    • canada debonding floor floor tiles tile tiles ufh
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
  18. M

    Advice needed with a very difficult tiler! :(

    Hello all. We have employed a tiler to do our bathroom and floor tiles. We bought the tiles ourselves from a tile supplier. We measured the room prior to getting the tiles. When the tiler turned up we asked him if there were enough tiles. He looked briefly at the boxes and said yes...
  19. M

    Little scratches all over every tile

    Hello :) I was hoping someone could please help. This floor has been laid but has a tonne of scratches all over it. Is this normal? Am I being too picky? It’s a tonne of fine scratches all over. I’ve tried washing each tile with micro fibre cloth but no luck. The tiles that haven’t been...
  21. Dan

    Can we make this forum better for you?

    There's no doubt about it, this forum is a bit quieter than it has been in the past. Though it wont get better if we don't talk about it. We could do with a few heads putting together, in a not-so-cliquey way, to shape it to what we want it to be for the tile industry as a whole. So I'll...
  22. T

    Trim or Silicon on tile upstands

    Hello All For good or bad (probably bad as its not a common choice) we're planning to tile around the top of the kitchen worktop. Worktop is dead level so plan to leave a 2 or 3 mm expansion gap and Silicon that. The issue is the top of the tiled upstand. The tiles are black ceramic with raw...
  23. Dan

    TilersForums.com Update for 2021

    Welcome to the new style TilersForums.com. Newish anyway. I've spent a while upgrading ElectriciansForums.net, then PlumbersForums.net, then to come over to TilersForums.com and do the same thing here. We're rocking the same awesome forum software but it comes with lots of minor changes...
  25. Dan

    I have a question - Can you answer it for me?

    Just testing the new questions and answers system out. Should be able to reply then up/down vote the answers.
  26. R

    Intermediate Tiler need HELP.... Thankyou

    So I recently took on this job that a cowboy ran from. They seem to be getting more and more common... So im facing a bit of a dilema I cant figure out. Inside the pond will be 300x300 blue glass mosaics The top of lip of the pond will be the brown 300x 600s along with all the sides and...
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