ceiling

Hello all, What's the typical procedure for tiling up to an uneven ceiling? Is it just tile as far as you can with an even line of tiles and then fill in the rest with grout? Leveling/re-plastering the ceiling is not an option unfortunately. K.

Got the wall for my garage workshop put up and skimmed yesterday, today it was cleaning up all the mess (Still hobbling about with this gummy foot, too...:-:thumbsdown:) !!!! One day, two (granted, pretty rough blokes) who did the work yesterday in 10 hours and I don't think they every heard of...

Hi everyone, I've just joined and need some advice before finishing off my bathroom tiling. I've tiled my whole bathroom in large white bumpy tiles floor nearly to the ceiling. There won't be any skirting and eventually there will be large black polished floor tiles laid up to the white wall...

Hi A neighbour of mine has had a new bathroom fitted & tiled (not by me :mad2:) & is worried about water/steam damaging his sloping ceiling opposite the shower head. The bathroom is in the attic of a cottage, it's a power shower over a bath & the sloping ceiling at the head of the bath is beamed...

Been asked to tile a steam room, customer also want the ceiling tanked and tiled. The ceiling at the mo is skimmed plaster board,but can be altered, if it needs to. I have never been asked to tank and tile on to a ceiling and need to know if this is possible. Any advice will be appreciated.

Hello, just registered to try and get a professional opinion on a solution to my tiling problem. Basically my dad, (who is a carpetfitter/floorlayer) tiled my bathroom last year, and to put it bluntly he made a complete mess of it, and has left uneven gaps of up to an inch from the ceiling...

I am currently trying to tile a wet room ceiling with glass mosaic using pieces of ground glass collected from the beach being stuck on to thin ply, grouted and screwed \ glued on to a plasterboard\strut ceiling. I want to try white and clear adhesive, and it will have to be suitable for a...

put the insulation between the joists or at 90 degress to it , i have space and to do either , just wondering what would be the best way , i was thinking at 90 degrees to the joists but am i right :yikes:

Have what might be simple newbie question. I have only done tiling the once before, my bathroom floor to ceiling. I was proud with the finished results. However so was the mother-in-law. So much so she has asked me to do their bathroom. The question i have is what to do were the tiles meet the...

Hi Im doing a job with 60x30 tiles and as the ceiling slopes at a part i will need to tile up to the flat ceiling. I normally use Mapei addy, which should hold:oops: but is there any advice anyone wants to offer on how to do it. Also as it will meet the ceiling not at normal 90 degrees, is...

Hi all, just a question I've been thinking about. Being newish to the game, I've usually tiled up to the last cut on a wall , turned the last tile upside down , marked where it needed to be cut and followed the ceiling. But I'm wondering, what is your opinion? Do you think that this is the best...

Hi all, could anyone please advise if it is OK to have a full tile next to the ceiling. I have 33x25cm tiles with a 7.5cm border. If I have a full tile 2mm above the bath it works out there is a gap of about 3mm between the last tile and ceiling, although I realize that this will vary with the...

Got a job to start next week for a builder, and the client has a shower in here loft conversion that has a sloping ceiling and she wants it tiled...But the tiles she wants are 600x600 15mm thick granite :yikes: The ceiling has backer board on it ready to tile. There needs to be 4 tiles on the...

Am having tiling done in the bathroom. The tiles are now all up, although there is an uneven gap where the top tile meets the ceiling (ranging from half an inch to 2 inches). I am told this is because the ceiling is not level. Our tiler is suggesting we put coving to finish it off to conceal...

One more! When tiling floor to siling in a bathroom...in this case plasterboard/skim ceiling...what size gap should you leave between tile and ceiling and how should this gap be filled? Silicon? grout? thanks :8:

I am doing a wetroom , walls and floor are no-more-ply 9mm tanked with bal wp1. The ceiling is plasterboard which i was going to skim, but would it be better to waterproof it?

Hi all. I am trying to finish my house extension that has been going on for almost a year, and tiling the ensuite is the final job. I am using 600x300 ceramic tiles laid landscape and in straight rows. I have used MS Excel to make a grid of tiles and also the dimensions of the walls with...

Hi, I have just finished tanking and tiling a shower over a bath. A neighbour was visiting and he came to view my handiwork, he then suggested that due to the high level of the showerhead I needed to cover the ceiling with acrylic sheet. He was concerned about mildew forming as he had this...

iv been asked to tile onto a ceiling, at first i thought no chance! not having done it befor im not sure if it is done. If it is, were can i get all the standards for specs such as weight per sqrm surfaces and adhesivse. cheers for any help.

Hiya everyone I'm just a DIY'er...and have now embarked on removing the lining from the ceiling, as advised by our recent plasterer as there were a couple of areas where the lining was peeling.(there are also a large amount of cracks, some running the lenght of the ceiling and others across...