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I've got an AKW Tuff form shower tray with a waste that is 10mm above the tray when fully screwed in. The Tiler laid my 5mm hex mosaic tiles on a 2mm bed, so obvs wasn't going to drain. I took them back up and spoke to AKW, who recommended I put down a 3mm bed adhesive, let it go off and then...

I understand the mortar bed is made 4/1 or 5/1 when I lay my 20mm porcelain outdoor tiles. Would it be detrimental if I was to increase the depth of mortar in some places to 70 or 80 instead of the recommended 40/50mm depth. Just to get my fall rate away from house as it meets my retainer wall...

Evening all, Hopefully a very simple question here, can anyone advise whether 6mm XPS tile backerboard would be suitable for laying over a timber subfloor (18mm structural ply) to tile over within a bathroom? Or should be I be looking at say 10mm instead? Thanks for your assistance, Russ

How thick will the finished tile adhesive be for floor tiles, and what size notch trowel should i use(10mm?).

Hi, I am in the process of building a house and I am planning on using a thick flagstone (Supplier recommends allowing for a 35-40mm laying thickness) on my kitchen diner floor, I am using a sand and cement screed that building regs state should be 65mm thick with UFH. I want the house to flow...

What sort of adhesive bed depth should i be aiming for before i apply 600x300 ceramic tiles to a couple of walls? (1 plasterboard, 1 hardibacker) Using keraflex maxi s1. Cheers

I posted previously about a tiling job that has gone a bit wrong. One wall either needs to come off or ideally be tiled over. The problem with tiling over is a concern that the quadrant shower cubicle may not fit. The shower cubicle has 20mm of adjustment, but 5mm already used, so 15mm left...

Hi all, enthusiastic newbie here. Plan is to tile a 300 wide vertical strip of 10mmT stone mosaic, where a shower tower will be placed on top. I’ve worked out so far that I ought to use BAL mosaic fix with a 4mm notched trowel and firmly bash the tiles in as evenly as poss. The problem as I see...

I think its only right to thank everyone on this forum for all the help and advice that you have given me over my latest project and my last one a couple of months ago. Your speedy replies have been a great help allowing me to move on to the next stage of my project when I need to. I do search...

Hi guys, First post here but already learnt a lot from the forum. Today was my first attempt at tiling and although I've not laid too many tiles because there was a fair bit of prep and tile cutting to do, it seems to have gone ok (I think!). Anyway I'm tiling a walk-in shower with 500 x...

Hi all I've been asked to completely refurbish the in-laws bathroom and they've taken it on themselves to do the donkey work of removing tiles, wall coverings etc. in preparation. Anyway, the walls were tiled lower down all the way round and papered/texture coated above. When they've removed...

tiled a wet room former today ,but bad design ,the channell water runway was to deep about 25 mm off addy did it but far to much ,anyone had this

Hi Im going to be laying a UFH mat by Heat Mat, in their instructions it says to have at least 8mm of SLC above the wire. Should I do that or will just having wires completely covered be fine? Heat Mat | The Underfloor Heating Specialists cheers Sharon

Hi all, Just a regular DIYer interested in trying something new/better for hi latest project (bathroom walls). Can anyone offer advice on what bed depth slanted (Raimondi) trowels give? The gaps between the notches look less area compared to regular square notched trowels so I am guessing the...

Hi Everyone It's been a while since I've been on the forums! We are having an extension built and are really unsure about subfloor prep and tile adhesive thickness. We want the new finish floor level to be the same as the existing finish floor level. We are trying to work backwards from...

As above......I have 18m2 of floor to bring up by 30mm to the same level as an adjoining floor. Insulated boards would seems the obvious way to go followed by SLC. But to work out the depth of the insulation I need, I need to work backwards from the minimum depth of SLC over the insulated...

I have decided to use the dog tooth option and would appreciate any advice offered. My field tiles are 10mm thick, the mosaics are 7mm. My question is what depth do i cut my dog tooth ?? Thanks.

Hi - I'm going to tile my porch Victorian style, using 2"x2" unglazed ceramic tiles. But I need to bring it up to the level of my hallway. I'm trying to calculate the depth needed for the subfloor, how to I know how deep the adhesive will be once the tiles are bedded? Also, is using the 20mm...

Hi I am putting down 610mmm x 405mm x 12mm travertine tiles straight onto concrete. The concrete is generally flat with occassional 1-3mm depressions. I therefore have been using a 10mm notched trowel which once the tiles are laid leaves about 6mm of set adhesive underneath. The tiles are...

Small glass mosaic tiles on mesh, 5mm thick. Area, 2 metres square. How deep should the Mapei adhesive be? And, should the adhesive be applied with a notched or smooth trowel? Thank you.