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  1. J

    should i dot dab ???

    Hi guys I have been reading on the forums and I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice? Renovating a bathroom and need to tile an external wall, but the problem is I can tell that as soon as I remove the old tiles the plaster is going to come off the wall. So I have decided to take...
  2. T

    Dot & Dab on brick walls for NoMorePly

    Hello everyone, I am planning on using Dot & Dab with a Mapei single part flexible tile adhesive of 12mm NMP boards to a fairly rubbish brick wall. My plasterer (a really good guy) suggested I should PVA bond the brick wall prior to doing the d&d. I have done the PVA solution now, but have been...
  3. B

    Dot and dab

    Hi all, What does everyone think about dot and dabbing tiles? Good or bad? Is there not a British standard that's says 75% or 80% of the tile has to have adhesive on it??
  4. S

    Dot and dab

    Eyup, and thanks for reading this. I have just stripped back wallpaper and tiles in the bathroom in preperation for new one fitting and found that there is that much blown plaster that It would probably worth taking the lot off and starting from scratch. Am planning on dotting and dabbing...
  5. S

    Shower room / Wetroom DAB AMP & Speakers - KBB Sound

    Selling this DAB Radio to which you can connect iPod / Smartphone / Tablet etc. - for Bathrooms Steam rooms - Only opened to photograph. Was for my own bathroom - but may be moving - this has a built in AMP & DAB radio - Remote available but as I wasnt going to put KBB control plate in...
  6. F

    Dot and dab plasterboard

    What plaster do I need to use as the doT and dab to place plasterboard on a wall? I have to remove the one old wall which has a bad leak and replace, many thanks, Simon. PS, sorry for not being on for a long time, but work is good and too much to get here!
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    dot and dab and the tile association

    I am putting this in here as its part of a court case where the builder has asked Don Slade from the tile association to be an expert witness in a court case against a tiler ,the case is finishing tomorrow and the buider called me today to hgive me a brief outline of how the proceedings went...
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    will this adhesive do to dot and dab on bare brick?

    Will this adhesive do to dot and dab on bare brick? Hi all I bought some Ultra Pro rapid porcelaine tile ahesive to dab on backerboards before tiling, but now I have decided to use plasterboard instead...
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    Will this Adhesive do for plasterboard on brick (dot And Dab)?

    Hi all, I was going to use Hardi Backer boards but have decided to dot and dab plasterboard onto the bare brick instead. Problem is,, I have already used Ultra fexible primer to prime the brick and dont know if this will be alright with drywall adhesive as they say to use pva as a primer for...
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    Hardy backer 12mm. Is it possible to dot and dab using thickset adhesive?

    Hi, I just need some help with fixing 12mm hardy boards. I have ixed the two walls that are studded using drywall screws....seems to be O/K so far. But I have to cover an old brick wall also. I took of the high spots and primed it using ULTRA PRIME FLEXIBLE adhesive DILUTED 3 TO 1. I WAS HOPING...
  11. B

    Dot & Dab PVA

    When i dot and dab i use diluted PVA on brick work.Just asking what anyone else uses as PVA a no no for tiling:smilewinkgrin:
  12. D

    Dot and Dab, Skim or Baton

    Curious on what everyone thinks is the best way to make a wall good for tiling either dot and dab, get a plasterer to skim the wall or to put up battons and board out wall? Never dot and dabbed but i know alot of joiners I work with doint like the baton method due to amount lost of the room...
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    Just finished a dot n dab floor.Will it be okay?

    Ha Ha, what a headline for this forum. Today I did a temporary patch up job on a kitchen floor, that is to be re tiled in the new year.As I was doing it, I couldnt help thinking of this forum and how the members would be horrified if they could see me.I hav'nt been on for a while so i'd like to...
  14. D

    National Campaign Against Dot and Dab?

    Dot and Dab tile fixing and any other poor practices you can think of, and list them down here!! then make the public awarer of them so they can judge there dodgy fixers by these elementary tiling mistakes!! peeps are always joining the forum to ask if we think there setter in doing the wrong...
  15. A

    dab and dot best adhesive

    hi i want to dab and dot plasterboard to bare brick wall in my bathroom. ideally i would like something that gives strong hold and drys in 24 hours before i can tile. so.. what is the best adhesive to use? do i need to prime the brick wall first? if so with what? which side of the plaster...
  16. L

    Naive question - Dot and Dab

    Sorry for sounding naive, but how do you 'dot and dab' plasterboard onto brickwork. I know that dot and dabbing tiles, as far as I am concerned, is a big no no, and in the last couple jobs I've had, I've only had to nail plasterboard onto studwork but what cement do you use to set pb against...
  17. C

    Dot and Dab

    I'm doing a plastering job at the moment and I came across a new product... well I think it's new, i've not seen it before Everbuild Product Range - Everbuild it's a dry wall adhesive but it says that you can plaster after an hour of fixing the walls! I asked the supplier what they think of...
  18. B

    Dot & Dab Aquapanel?

    Please can you help me? I have purchased eight sheets of Aquapanel and have just found out that you can't fix them with dot and dab! (£11.10 each at B&Q if you buy five or more). I was going to fix them on three sides of a bath. One short side is ok cause it is battened but this is not the...
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    Dot & Dab Quandry

    The story goes like this... We have just had wall tiles fitted to our bathroom that is near completion following renovation by myself (former joiner) my partners father (plumber) and a friend of his who is a builder but came highly reccomended to fit the wall tiles. The tiles are 600 x 300...
  20. B

    Is DOT AND DAB the answer?

    Going to be tiling a kitchen splashback and bathroom soon. The client has had all the old tiles removed. There are patches of old addy left on the walls, leaving them quite rough and textured. Taking all the addy off will take a month of sunday's. My thinking is that I prep the walls with a good...

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