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This is my first time posting, I searched for a similar thread and didn't find much- apologies if this is a repeat! My upstairs bathroom has a walk-in shower with marble wall tile and river stone floor. The river rock flooring is getting messed up. The grout is cracking and coming loose, and a...

I hired a pool cleaner and they used muric acid. It has turn all the brown and blue edge tiles white. What can I door to fix please.

Hello , For some reason the cleaning product removed the gloss, or not sure what could happen, I have around 2000ft black floor and everything is with this type of damage, I have tried everything possible on my hands, What do you think? it's possible to polish, or something, very thanks for...

Bathroom/bathtub walls were tiled to the ceiling and a shower screen was fitting. Tiler left with 2 deep dents on the bathtub and one is filled with silicon. He did not mention anything of this after the job and when I found out he would not admit damaging the bathtub and refused to even come...

I have been cutting quarry tiles outside with a diamond wet saw. i didn't notice but the spray went onto a glass patio door. when i tried to clean off the black dots a few days later i couldn't shift it and on closer inspection it appears that the glass is damaged. Is this a known consequence...

First post :) I'm having to refit a first floor shower alcove in a 20 year old house that has suffered water damage from the shower to the floorboards & stud wall. Construction is 22mm V313 MR chipboard floor on treated 9x2 timber joists at 600 centres with the 1000x800 alcove formed of...

Hello, hoping you can offer some advice, We recently had awnings fitted to our balcony, as you can hopefully see from the photos the balcony is tiled with porcelain tiles. To attached the guide wires to the balcony floor, the installers drilled the tiles and then hammered a slightly expanded pin...

Hi First time on here, new to DIY and have my first challenge: Decided to floor tile our first property and having done so with hardie backer boards and Lauara Ashley Dove tiles. The floor had slight movement in certain areas, so we nailed down floorboards as secure as possible without me...

Good evening all. Removed some tiles in bathroom and damaged the wall. Plaster has come off, underneath I think its bonding plaster? Haven't a clue. What would be the best repair method for the wall, also can I install Hardiebacker without plastering the wall after the repair? Any help is...

Hello everyone My names Bob And was just wondering if anyone can help? Recently moved into a new property which has been great, however, a small problem with our tiles in our shower cubicle. Basically it looks like the tiles are starting to come off or something. Is it water getting behind...

Hi, been told I need to remove all old adhsive from wall then use bonding before tiling, the wall is getting damage should I stop and what advice can you give me. Any help would be appreciated.

It this type of cracks and chipping normal to this type of tile ? Only occurs along the vein. What can be the causes ? This happens in the properties that I was renting and I hardly use this area. Landlord is accusing me of damaging the tile. There have been some foundation jacking done to the...

Finished the job and was taking my tools outside to the car. The wheels of my Sigma cutter just clipped the door and took a 20mm chunk out of it. That sick feeling came to my stomach. Customer not too happy, but these things happen she said. New door was fitted a few weeks ago at a cost of...

I have Amtico signature floor in a downstairs room. The Amtico is laid on a solid concrete floor. The floor was professionally prepared and laid. The result was stunning. Two weeks after the floor was laid a pipe burst in the ceiling and the room was seriously flooded. The floor was wet for...

Thank you for viewing this thread. I am currently working on a job and upon pulling the lino up we discovered the chipboard floor has been water damaged due to two leaks which have been fixed. Now this chipboard floating floor is in a flat and water had leaked into the flat below at some...

Hi all Been to an emergency job today. Customer has a mains stop **** in downstairs loo just off the main hallway. The copper pipe had corroded & was leaking through a very small hole. As the toilet floor was tiled I started to break out 1tile to try & remove a section of pipe. Unfortunately as...

I have laid a polished limestone floor many months ago. Builder covered it with building paper initially only taping joints but then put corex plastic on top and taped all edges to stone,then had underfloor heating on for months. Stone has sweated and stained. Cant get marks out at all...

We've just spent thousands installing beautiful tiling but hate our decision to hang a shower screen due to its chronic cleaning requirements. How best can we conceal the damage done to the tiles (we believe there are two drill holes, but don't know about markings from adhesive) so we can hang...

Hello I think orange juice has been spilt on our kitchen travertine floor tiles. It has left a mark - what is the best way to repair this?