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    Porcelain Floor Tiles Concrete Floor

    Planning to lay some 60cm x 60cm porcelain floor tiles onto my kitchen concrete floor Do I need to treat the floor with anything before or can I lay straight on to it? Also looking for advice on a good adhesive to use and I’m also hoping to use white grout. From what I’ve read I need to use...
    • Tyler
    • Thread
    • canada concrete floor floor tiles porcelain porcelain floor tile tiles
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
  2. J

    77mm between concrete and existing tile floor

    Hi, we've been victim to an AWOL builder who has not left enough space for us to insulate with 50mm pir board, screed and then tile. I was thinking 50mm PIR board over concerete, chipboard and then no more ply. Should I self level the concrete, assuming the concrete is level but just bumpy or...
  3. Dan Fitchie

    Preparing uneven concrete floor for tiling

    Hi, I have a small roughly 1 metre square porch area that we would like to put tile down on and am just looking for some advice as the area isn't without problems. The area is concrete which has quite the slope - between the bottom of the wooden step in the foreground of the image attached and...
  4. G

    Tiles on a concrete floor butted together

    Hello everyone, it's me again. I'll try to make this as short as possible. A good friend of mine had the floor in his studio (about 30 sq.meters) re-tiled recently and the tiles are butted together (no grout lines). I've read all the previous threads on this subject, so for me that's not a good...
  5. A

    Tiling screened in porch on concrete

    Hello! A question about prepping a concrete slab to apply tile. Looking at the picture (sorry, for some reason I can't seem to have it properly rotated), there are thin expansion joints that were put in when the concrete was poured. Do I need to fill those in before tiling or will the thin set...
    • Alexander Dobert
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    • concrete tiling
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: DIY Tiling Forum
  6. D

    External concrete slab for 20mm porcelaine

    Hello All, After a few months respite I'm back. Some of you may recall my pre-Christmas dilemma with laying 30+sqm porcelain on what I thought was a unlevel slab. Well I heeded everyone's advice and got a professional tiler in who did a superb job and it turned out the floor was only 5mm lower...
    • Deleted member 51481
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    • 20mm concrete external porcelain porcelain tile slab
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: DIY Tiling Forum
  7. S

    Fitting Limestone to new concrete flow screed 80mm, wet UFH and main room is 11m x 5m!

    Hi all, Ive been asked to lay limestone to a new extension, it has a main room 11 x 5m with smaller rooms off. At present no expansion joints in slab and they say they are going to grind 8mm deep joint in middle of room and in doorways! In my mind 8mm won't achieve anything ? I am proposing...
    • SteveH
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    • concrete fitting limestone new build room screed ufh wet wet ufh
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: The Welcome Forum
  8. E

    Floor Tiling On Concrete - Several Questions About Floor Prep and Laying

    Hi We've knocked through our kitchen and dining room and taken up old stone/porcelain tiles in the kitchen and carpet in the dining room. There are several questions I have before I start tiling. Here is a share link to a Google Drive folder with images: Tiling - Google Drive -...
    • EdMac
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    • canada concrete floor floor prep laying prep questions tiling
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  9. W

    Drying time for rapid set concrete please

    Hi, got a job coming up next week of tiling on a rapid set concrete floor with a pipe based under floor heating system fitted. Large format 600 x 900 x 20 natural stone tiles are being laid on top. Been told by the builder the concrete is being laid on the piping this Friday and I should be able...
  10. JordanLincs

    Carpet glue from concrete

    Best way to remove carpet glue from concrete?
  11. S

    Tiling concrete floor and UF heating

    Hi all I am new to the forums and looking to get my kitchen diner floor tiled which is approx 30sqm The tiler is proposing following 1. Self level floor as old tiles were taken up and some of the adhesive is still present and not flat floor - Is this needed or can insulation boards just be...
  12. S

    Concrete floor to floorboards

    Evening all, I’ve recently looked at a job where there are wooden floor boards in an entrance hall that lead into a kitchen that has a concrete floor. Customer wants both kitchen and entrance hall tiled. I’m going to cement board the hall way to reinforce the floor before tiling. Would I need...
  13. Slippery

    Concrete sub floor, how to create fall?

    The customer I'm doing an extension for wants a wheelchair access wet room. It's close to the outside wall and foul drain and there is a doorway there at present that will be bricked up so I have fairly good access to cut the concrete for the waste and drain. The only thing I'm worried about is...
  14. M

    Durabase matting adhesive.

    Hi all. I’m after recommendations for the best adhesive for fixing Durabase decoupling matting to a concrete floor? It’s an old concrete floor, 40m2 with some minor cracks. Planning on using tilemaster prime + grip prior to fixing the matting. Cheers.
  15. D

    Tiling onto concrete - over old adhesive.....

    Hey folks. I did have an old username here....but couldn't find it for the life of me! (Tiles are 190mmx570mm ceramic) I'm finishing up my kitchen, and have a 3500mmx500mm section of wall to tile between the worktops and the wall units. This wall is cast concrete(not the usual no fines crap...
  16. N

    Tiles lifting, concrete floor

    My neighbour had an outhouse converted to a utility room with a new back entrance. The place was built in the 1940s and I suspect the concrete floor has no DPM. The people who converted it did a generally poor job (I’ve already done remedial work on the roof and guttering for them). The issue...
  17. Lakey

    Damp proofing concrete floor

    I have a concrete floor to tile in a house built in the 1500’s. Can I paint the floor with Black Jack/Synthproof or something similar before Weber SLC? I will be laying Ditra Duo after SLC.
  18. D

    Kitchen Tiling New Concrete Slab

    Hi, I’m about to move into a new build development. We have opted to tile the kitchen ourselves but have some questions regarding this. We’ve done tiling projects before. As this is a new build, and we will be tiling onto the concrete slab what preparation is required? Am I right in saying...
    • Deleted member 50723
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    • bathroom concrete kitchen new build slab tiling
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: DIY Tiling Forum
  19. J

    Concrete panels on bathroom walls?

    Hi, my first post on here. I am looking at fitting thin concrete panels on my bathroom and shower wall. Has any one used them before? The ones I was looking at are either Concreate or https://livingconcrete.co.uk/concrete-panels The livingconcrete type say you can use them on a wall by fixing...
  20. F

    Concrete grinding options

    I ned to grind down some concrete high spots to get a better level before I tile, mainly a sand and cement mix without any pebbles. What is the best attachment to use with my 115mm angle grinder. My research on here leads me to a Silicon carbide product, would this be any use --here as I...

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