cracking

Good morning I'm hoping somebody can help and give me a good honest opinion. May last I had my kitchen tiled. The subfloor is 18mm ply with ditra. Shortly after the floor was finished around a month later I noticed a crack in the grout running horizontally by the back door. It seems to...

Hi, after some advise if possible! I laid a natural limestone floor in my house over piped underfloor heating. It's a pump screed that had been down for roughly a year and tested super dry on a moisture meter. It's a new system boiler system . So after a year I fitted the heating system turned...

did a porcelain floor just before Xmas .client calls me this week to say that tiles cut around external corners have cracked .been round and they have too even with ditra underneath . Anyone know why this happens . It is certainly not the first time . I really don't think I should be responsible...

Hi Folks , been a while since any posts been very busy ! What's the best sealer for sealing crackled glaze kitchen tiles 6 "x 4 ", I'll be using white grout ! Thanks

Anybody know what's happened here job was only done few months back looks like a crack but can't be sure silicon is coming away aswell. There is also under floor heating

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...

Hello all 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...