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Following advice from a damp and timber report carried out we were advised to a apply a coat of dmp to our kitchen floor. The floor is half concrete and half suspended wooden slats (very old). We had planned to put prime followed by self levelling concrete of around 9mm on the concrete and match...

I'm preparing this floor for tile. I had screwed down an extra layer of 5/8 plywood but have left it off near the edge of the room because it jumps about 1/2" in elevation near the perimeter. I've filled in most of this gap now with a patching compound (Custom Skim Coat and Patch.) Now I just...

Sorry for asking a question that I already think i know the answer to but I just need confirmation from some wise heads here. I recently carried out some work and a plasterer came in to plaster a chimney breast floor to wall. when he finished the job i noticed he had used a bonding coat which...

Hi all, first post here - total novice in need of advice. I’m retiling a shower room and removing the old tiles has taken the smooth plaster surface with them leaving what I assume is backing plaster. This is sound and level other than a few gouges. This wall is the opposite end to the shower so...

Afternoon everyone, just after a bit of advice on preparing some walls for ceramic, possibly porcelain (haven’t decided yet) wall tiles. Okay so a bit of background information first of all, the gypsum finish plaster on all the walls in my new house is quite poorly adhered in most places, it...

hi started tiling as a career a year or so ago now and have found this forum a lot of help very informative i have a kitchen splash back to do in a couple of weeks. the customer had already put a miss coat on the walls before looking at the job as its a new extension they wasnt sure whether...

Is this a bad grouting job due to; too much water in the grout mix? not enough grout pushed in? Is this bad tiling due to; not measuring before setting? Is the answer to; grout over the existing grout (72 hours later)? pull it down and start again? Do tilers as a matter of course, grout...

Hi UK tilers! I'm an ex-pat Brit builder looking for some advice on the best high gloss coating for a (real) slate floor? I live in Spain now and the gear I can buy here isn't doing it for me. It's had 2 coats which have been dulled by grout clean up and traffic. It doesn't seem very impermeable...

Hi UK tilers! I'm an ex-pat Brit builder looking for some advice on the best high gloss coating for a (real) slate floor? I live in Spain now and the gear I can buy here isn't doing it for me. It's had 2 coats which have been dulled by grout clean up and traffic. It doesn't seem very impermeable...

Hi. I am about to purchase some Carrara white Minerva wet wall panels to line a shower area. Currently it is a stud wall with no boards so I am planning on fitting Marmox boards to the stud work. The wet wall panels are only 6mm thick and being a light (white marble) colour could surfer with a...

Hi all, I need some advice on wall preparation for wall tiles in a small en-suite. I’ve completely gutted our en-suite bathroom including the tiles on the walls and floor. However, while removing the wall tiles from one wall I discovered a patch of plaster is loose (approx 3ft x 2ft). Also some...

anyone use this for tiling onto? Obviously lightweight tiles only as per most other plaster finishes. It seems crazy to do a float and set on some walls when a one coat system would work fine. I trowelled a wall with it yesterday after I did my homework. I’ve previously not used it as a prep...

Hi I have had specialists in to remove vinyl floor tiles containing asbestos leaving behind the bitumen adhesive (also containing asbestos) which they have encapsulated by giving a coat of PVA. What is the best way to go about tiling the floor? Its a concrete floor mostly covered in bitumen...

I am having the walls skimmed next week and I know I have to use Sbr primer on the areas I'm going to tile, the problem I'm having is does this need doing just prior to tiling or can it be done in advance? I'd like to apply the Sbr and mist coat(where I'm painting) and then put the bath back...

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evening all,,, i posted yesterday but didnt get much feed back,, and after thinking about the leveling compound over wood situation,, would it be ok to use a coat of flexy rapid set adhesive to level the plywood sub floor first before tiling,, bearing in mind im only talking about slight bumps...

I'll start by saying that I'm not actually going to do this, I was just wondering if anyone thinks it is a feasible idea. If the bonding coat is primed and then tanked with a liquid membrane, will it then become a suitable substrate to tile to? In my mind, I can't think of a reason for it not to...

Hi all I'm going to tile my kitchen walls today with glass mosaic tiles. They are quite heavy. Unfortunately, the walls have already been painted with an emulsion mist coat (and in parts, there is at least one coat of kitchen paint too). Do I need to remove the mist coat before I start...

Does anyone remember the floated coat method? This was usually used on Shaws twin tiles. Twin tiles as the name suggests were glazed tiles made back to back, so each tile required a sharp blow with a well aimed gauging trowel to split the two tiles. The substrate concrete/ brick would be keyed...

Half my bathroom has been re-boarded with aquapanel and tiled. The other half, or one wall, was plastered. The plaster came off with the tiles, leaving the cement scratch coat below. This is sound. I had been told that tiling directly onto this is preferred, rather than onto the finish...