Have a kitchen / dinning room floor job, concrete floor. Where archway meets in the middle of the room there is a crack along the whole length from side to side, it's a very faint crack so would I need to ditra over the whole concrete floor as the customer insists on not having a movement joint...
I am quoting to lay a reclaimed limestone chequerboard floor over an existing base that is assumed to be concrete once the existing stone tiles have been removed by main contractor.
there will be no underfloor heating involved but i would ideally like to lay some sort of membrane between the...
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Im going to pull up a lino floor on a bungalow concrete floor, its one of those gritty council wet room ones. its going to leave a glue residue on there, is there anything i can do to either remove this or something i can coat it with to make it ok to tile? havnt took it up yet tho, it was...
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We have just knocked down kitchen wall to open up through dining room.We will be tiling throughout.The problem is that the dining floor is a floating floor,chipboard on insulation and the kitchen floor is concrete.The concrete floor is 10mm lower than the floating...
Got a 4 mtr Bathroom floor with half being concrete and half chip board over layed with ply to make it flush with the existing concrete, it is at the minute level ish, and was seeking advise for the best way to over lay over the 2 substrates, Tiles going down are 600 Ceramic. Is it acceptable to...
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I am interested in getting my outside patio tiled and I have porcelain tiles 600mmx300mm and I want to lay them in brick effect. The floor is leveled and only jas a few paint marks om them (from painting my wall)
I was recommended by a bal customer service to get the stone and...
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what is the process of laying tiles on UFH on an uneven poorly insulated old concrete floor? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Weve never done this before!!
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I am tiling the garage floor. Can I use M10 concrete to level and raise/level the base concrete slab before tiling? It would be cheaper as I have about 100kg of M10 left over from the house construction. Thanks, kkckkc.
I'm pricing up a job & the client is having an extension built onto his kitchen.
11m2,
He's wanting to run the floor out through his hall into the existing kitchen then through to the extension.
Hall & kitchen are chipboard floors, I'm going to lay Hardie, ufh, slc then tile.
Client wants an...
Hi everyone. I need some advice on my garage floor which I wish to tile. The slab is 6m by 8m and was set two years ago. It has a bulge line going from North to South, middle of slab. I have ground this down as much as I can using a diamond rotary grinder and at the same time I have buffed...
Hi All, after a short time off the tools my first job back and im having a head scratching moment:lol:. I was looking at a concrete flagstone hallway in a house approx 100 years or there abouts, the flags are uneven and far from level in anyway however quite stable. They are approx 1-1.5inches...
We are removing the tiles installed on my kitchen floor as they are lifting on their own. As we remove the tiles I've noticed that the adhesive used is glued to the concrete floor but none of it has adhered to the tile itself. I don't know anything about installing tiles but to me it seems...
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I have a customer who wants to use 20 x 20 x 12mm concrete tiles. They will be used in a bathroom and will go over electric cable UFH. I have never tiled with these before, so any advice would be appreciated, surrounding adhesive etc etc.
i have an existing concrete floor (with dpc) that i wish to install a thin insulating layer onto prior to tiling, any suggestions as to suitable materials please, taking up the concrete is not an option and very restricted re door/ceiling height
Hi all. How long would you advise to heat up and cool down a 150mm (yes...150mm) concrete screed with piped water UFH. Floor has been down for months and I'm due to tile it starting on the 25th March (11 days time) and the plumber hasn't even bothered to put the boiler in yet. He reckons that...
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we are looking to lay travertine floor tiles over 2 substrates- a new concrete floor and the existing suspended wood floor ( 18mm ply over the floor joists) because of how the house was built we do not have a straight line where the 2 substrates meet ( along, up a bit, along, up a...
Hey all, Have a large floor made up of mixtures of concrete and wooden flooring. Wooden floor 18mm WBP [all correctly laid]
A question:
1. Would you run the decoupling membarane right over the area to create a single skin. For example if one area of the room is 6mtrs long by 3mtrs wide and...
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