I have 40m of Dural DuraBase CI Plus - Crack Isolation / Decoupling Membrane for sale, it's 1 x 30m and 1 x 10m and both are unopened.
Job has been canceled and do need need in the next 2 months so it's just going to be in the way!
£240ono collection from PE15 0 area (March, Cambridgeshire)
Recently had look at a job which was just up the road from a job in Islington, grout cracking and Silicon looking the worse for wear.
The women was still in touch with the original tiler who had moved away,8 years ago, I asked was it tanked, method of fixing etc, the lady got in contact with...
Tiled the walls of a bathroom last week with 60 x 30 white ceramics from b n q.I removed all skim to reveal rendered walls which needed a bit of scratch coat the day before I started tiling.(weber rapid set used) I used weber slow set to fix the tiles and walls have had three days to dry.only...
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I'm a tiler in Ireland and I get a lot of new one off houses to tile, most of these have ready mix concrete floors, the kind that's pored before any walls are built and most of these floors have cracks in them, hairline cracks and slightly bigger, I have been using the Bal decoupling...
Do any of you have any experience in cutting crackle glaze ceramic tiles? what methods have you tried and which one works best for you? Guidence on both straight cuts and angles would be appreciated.
We have lots of people stuggle with cutting, due to the excess chipping. Obviously with the...
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Hi,
Unfortunately we have to stick on a cracked porcelain tile to the wall around the bath area underneath the over bath shower.
When the 2 broken pieces are put together there is no gap but Im afraid over time
some water may get behind it into the wall.
Is there anything we can put behind...
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Exhausted all options in looking at this.
So. Plastered walls, primed, Weber set rapid, Homelux wall matting, more Weber set rapid, 300x100 Metro Matt White tiles
Just in the shower area, the tiles have very badly cracked (no the weren't crackled finish to start with :)).
I have aske the...
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Hi there,
We have what we think is limstone flooring, with underfloor heating in a some portions (not all areas have UFH).
We are not fully informed as this was part of a refurb that the previous home owners undertook.
The floor was installed about 3 years ago, but this last winter onwards it...
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Hi all,
I am just looking for some advice regarding my shower room.
I have a newish house (2.5 years old, Taylor Wimpey build)
About 4 weeks ago after having a shower I noticed a small water stain right by the shower door on the outside of the shower room which is in-line with the bottom row...
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Given the extensive experience on this board, I'm hoping someone can help. I've just had a house built, and cracks have appeared in the tiles on the bathroom walls. The cracks appear to correspond to the joins in the backing plasterboard sheets. The silicon in the corners where the tiles...
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Looked that this floor this evening,the customer said the builders have used slc ,and it's cracking all over the place in the kitchen,she's bought 20sq in slate,problem is if I rip it all up and slc myself is it going to crack again,after I've tiled it
I had a job booked to retile 19m of kitchen floor where the house had apperently had a little bit of subsidence causing a a couple of crack lines to appear across the original tiling. Another tiler had already pulled up original tiling before customer called me, then bottled it on doing the job...
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i had my bathroom professionally tiled in March, after 3 weeks several of the tiles on the wall where the shower is fitted had lots of hairline cracks, they were replaced by the tiler but the same thing has happened again. I am reluctant to buy more tiles if the same thing is going to happen...
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Hi guys, I have a kitchen I'm soon to fit.
After Pulling the original tiles up I have discovered a crack in the screed where an internal wall has been removed.
It looks to be a very old crack, there is nothing visible externally on the walls either.
Just wondering what peoples approach...
See if anyone can give pointers what went wrong.
Got following setup:
Anhydrite floor dried for 2 years (fully dry).
Water underfloor heating - comissioned prior to start of tiling
Area - L shape with longer dimensions 7 x 7m (does not exceed 8meters in any dimension)
BAL Prime APD used to...
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Evening all...[emoji4] got a floor tiling job to quote for ...9m2 hall, porcelain tiles on a concrete base. The problem is this crack in front of the door- if you zoom in on the photo you'll see the crack & how the floor has dropped about 10mm. The house is around 20yrs old btw. Looking for...
A job im doing, as ufh in a screed with a slc over the top, noticed today that a crack as appeared across a corner about 50 cm in, its only a mm wide at most, but should i be thinking about using a crack bridging membraine befor tiling. Any advice is appreciated.
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I have a floor lets say 40sqm and one corner is floor boards (say 10sqm), the rest is concrete. Basically the customer has opened up a few rooms into one big one. I Believe I have to use detra matting (obviously on timber floor) in whole room as it's going from one substrate to another...
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I am currently going through the process of buying a house. In the kitchen there is underfloor heating which I have just had confirmed is electric. The kitchen floor is tiled, however nearly all of the tiles are cracked. I am trying to found out how they were cracked but I assume it was...
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Hi all,
We live in the area of Westerham/Edenbridge. Our house was build 4 years ago and in the past couple years we have long cracks appearing in our kitchen, hallway, dining area, utility and bathroom. We have more than 50 tiles cracked over an area of ~90 sqm. Our Building Insurance has...