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    UK Tiling on newly poured concrete base

    Hi. Thank you for welcoming me to your forum. Hoping for a bit of advice. I need to lay some large format 20mm outdoor porcelain tiles on a newly laid 100mm concrete base and was wondering how long I would have to wait before laying tiles. I've read some conflicting advice some stating straight...
  2. C

    Concrete subfloor leveling issue

    Hi - I ripped up laminate flooring on a concrete subfloor. It was my first DIY project and instead of using mortar to even out any glue that was stuck on or sand off, I used a thin layer of self leveler. I mixed it correctly but for some reason still wasn’t level so I tried grinding it with an...
  3. T

    UK Electric underfloor heating onto concrete floor.

    I have a customer who lives in a 200 year old property. The lounge floor he wants tiled which is very thick concrete. He wants electric underfloor heating but I'm concerned he'll lose too much heat into the concrete. He's gone with tumbled modular limestone and the floor is quite wavy which...
  4. C

    Concrete leveling issue

    Help! New DIYer here - I’m preparing my bathroom floor to lay ceramic tile. Removed the vinyl flooring to reveal cement which needed leveling. I was planning on first priming the concrete, pouring concrete leveler, pouring Mapai aqua defense crack isolation membrane, then tiling. However i...
  5. E

    Lime concrete floor. Brand new.

    Hiya. Looking for advice. Tiling limestone onto a new lime concrete floor. Any special measures neede in sealing the floor? Anti-fracture mat? Thanks
  6. M

    Used Modified under Ditra on concrete by mistake. Options?

    I'm laying Ditra in my bedroom on concrete & using porcelain tiles. I just realized I used Modified under my Ditra. I was 40% done when I realized. What are my options?
  7. J

    slate over concrete?

    Pro help please... i have a large outside area 6msq approximately...ive just had a concrete slab pored by professional company (two weeks) and got a nice finish and fall, its clean and dry. i want to tile in natural slate, ive done a few tests and a bed of 12- 15mm gives full tile coverage...
  8. T

    Concrete slabs under log burner

    Hi We have recently had some old fashioned concrete slabs laid for under a log burner at the time when I asked the builder he advised any natural stone like this would be easy to keep clean and not stain. I am finding this untrue even without the log burner in and Google seems to suggest they...
  9. C

    Floor heights , laying mosaics on concrete slab

    Hi everyone, I’ve a fairly basic question I thinks, hope someone can help me out with. I’m going to be laying some mosaics on a foot path leading to my front door but before I can do that I need to lay a new concrete slap to get a gradient from door to public footpath height. I’m struggling...
  10. G

    Which Mapei adhesive for 600mm porcelain tiles on a concrete floor

    10 minutes ago Add bookmark #1 Which mapei adhesive ( it's convenient for me to buy this brand ) is best suited for laying 600 x 600 porcelain tiles on a dead flat one year old concrete floor. I heard Mapekar rapid set is good ? Wickes sell a mapei fast set PLUS but unsure if it's suitable...
  11. D

    Tiling on concrete beams

    Hi there, I need some advice on replacing some decking with tiles. Current decking is on timber struts attached to concrete beams. I would like to remove the decking and then tile onto the beams. Do the cavities need to be filled or more beams inserted to reduce the space between the beams? I’d...
  12. Tasha12

    I'm Looking For This Tile BCT Devon concrete mid grey wall tiles 25 x 50cm

    Hello, I’m looking for BCT devon concrete mid grey wall tiles 25 x 50 cm 1006645 I’ve tried Google, eBay and the original supplier I purchased them from to no avail. I would really appreciate any help. Many thanks in advance.
  13. ourliam

    Tiling over half solid concrete, half suspended wood after a DPM coat

    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...
  14. Conversaro

    Tented tiles in middle of Livingroom concrete slab condo

    Hello, does anyone know why my tile would tent? Bottom floor concrete slab condo in Tampa. Had water detection company, sinkhole company, slab engineer and several tile companies completely stumped, it is in the middle of my living room. I finally chiseled out the grout of one tile and it came...
  15. A

    URGENT - Wanting to use concrete board alongside existing ply

    I am repairing one square meter of bathroom floor which has gone rotten because of a bath leak. I intend to extract that section and replace with concrete board however the rest of the floor is plywood. Can this be done and how do i tackle the joint where the concrete board meets the plywood? I...
  16. J

    Crunchy tiles on concrete floor (first floor

    Hello We live in a townhouse built 2007. Both the floors are concrete. The first floor kitchen tiles have suddenly started sounding crunchy. It's been very cold, is that causing it in some way? Is it something to do with whatever was used to bond them to the concrete in the first place? Is there...
  17. K

    Removal of stubborn oil stain on concrete floor before tiling

    Hiya, I am in the process of preparing a concrete floor in my mum's house for tiling, and have found that cooking oil which was spilled on the carpet years ago has gone right through, leaving some stubborn stains. I have already tried Sugar soap/detergent Mix of sawdust and white spirit...
  18. E

    Laying bricks over concrete slab. Mortar or tile adhesive?

    Hi, I'm planning to do a herringbone brick floor over a concrete slab with some reclaimed brick tiles . The bricks have been sawn into narrow longs roughly 50mm x 50mm x 250mm, but there is still a fair bit of variance. Have enough extra that I can get the variance down to 5mm by being...
  19. Smith1930s

    Preparing concrete path for tile

    Hi everyone, I'm a competent DIYer and have tiled a couple of bathrooms and recently my kitchen. They've all come out very well - however, I have a friend that wants me to tile their path and I'm not sure which course of action to take in preparing it. You can see in the photo that it has...
  20. J

    Preparation Concrete grinding prior to tiling

    I've just had a 7m x 4m concrete slab laid by a contractor to fix 20mm porcelain to as a patio. Despite the written and verbal specification/briefing stating the importance of the slab being flat (+/-2mm over 2mm) the end result is a slab with high spots of 14mm in several areas. The only way to...
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