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    Converting a Shower into a Wetroom (DIY) advice

    Hi, I have gutted a shower room with the intention of creating a wet room. The floor tiles were lifting due to the bad flooring install This leads me on to asking for your educated advice, 1. In your opinions what wet room try/base would you suggest I install (1200x1200mm)? 2. The existing...
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    Re-Grout or Re-Tile for limited DIYer

    My grout is all cut and parts have fallen out. Been having a look at potentially re grouting or retiling the shower. My worries are if I Re-grout are 1) Do I need to remove ALL the old grout? I have a grouting tool but i think it will take 3 weeks to remove the grout with that. I was looking...
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    Hi novice DIY'r

    Interested in the site to learn as much as I can so when I do my projects they will be of optimum quality. Thank You for all your help, I've been browsing this site for a couple of years and decide to join because I want to expand my experience.
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    What kind of wetroom tanking is best and easiest for a DIY-er? Help please!

    Hi, I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for the best, simplist and most reasonably priced way to tank a wet room. I need a 1500 x 800 deck and was thinking of buying the Maxxus 1500 x 800 kit for £400 but wondered if its better to buy the deck and drain and...
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    DIY sos

    Did you watch it tonight? It was filmed about 40 miles from me and a lot of the contractors are from here (anglesey) including the slate roofers and the old plumber doing the copper work. Nice to see some locals helping out a worthy cause. tapatalk on my HTC
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    Help for a novice DIYer

    hello All I am redoing my kitchen and have taekn up my old kitchen tiles to level the floor and put doen new tiles. However under the old rubbish cracked tiles i have found some lovely original terrecotta ones that would be great to restore and keep! The problem i have it that most of them are...
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    DIY Tiling

    This is my 3rd or fourth diy tiling work. Would look to get some feedback. Please give honest feedback, even if negative.
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    Any ideas on DIY School Stockport?

    Anybody used or head anything about DIY Trade school in Stockport? Wanting to try a weeks course there, content looks good but name is a bit off putting?
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    Hi new member, not a tradeasman, just a domestic DIY'er

    Original tiles in my bathroom (half tiled walls) have no finishing edging on the top sharp edge which is not a good look, can I retro fit some sort of finishing strip on this top edge?
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    Keen DIYer but hesitant tiler!

    Hi everyone. I've been looking at previous threads and got some useful tips but thought I'd take the plunge and join. At the moment I'm tiling an alcove which will eventually contain a WC and the two end walls are not flat. If I hold a straight edge across each wall the centre is "dipped" 6 to...
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    wetroom diy product advice please???????????

    Hi all i'm looking for some pointers from you profesionals out there please? I would like to modernize my small ensuite and install a level entry wet room floor tray, I thought I'd decided what former to use untill my wife chose a 25mm by 50mm mosaic floor tile which may have caused a point...
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    Please Help a Frustrated DIYer

    Hello everyone. I would really really appreciate some pointers/help please. I'm tiling my bathroom with 600x300mm tiles, about 10mm thick, for a start, I don't think I have chosen the best tiles to use for my first attempt? I have done one wall, all is ok. I have started to tile the...
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    Limestone bathroom - DIY or Not?

    Hi Everyone We are about to re-tile the bathroom, I've tiled a few room but never used Limestone. Due to its costs I not sure about taking this on due to lack of product knowledge. Can this be done as a DIY job or am I best sticking to a ceramic tile? This is what I know. Wall tiles are...
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    Advice plz! First DIY tiling job messed up!

    Hi, I am a first time DIYer and I think I've just made a terrible mistake. The bathtub in our family bathroom is surrounded by three walls, two 0.7m and one 1.7m. They are tiled half way up. We want to tile them to the full height so we or our guests can occasionally shower in it. The tiles...
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    DIY spending hits 12-year low

    Household spending on DIY has dropped to a 12-year low, according to a new report from Lloyds TSB. News - DIY spending hits 12-year low
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    Hi, I'm a keen diy'er

    willing to have a go at almost anything
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    White cement based adhesive is DIY only

    Just read a letter today @PHG about a tiler( i use that loosely) who kinda bodged a job up .. his reasons were that the stone tiles were poor and that the wrong adhesive was supplied.. The stone was Applestone ( white limestone) and he said it was inferior because it was soft and chipped...
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    DIY wet room floor and tanking advice please?

    Hi any help and advice would be much appreciated. I am not a tiler or plumber and would like to install a wet room in my en-suite, it is on a first floor and has timber floor, I am going to have to put some glass screening in to stop water splashing over onto the bedroom door and floor as...
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    Diy

    Done a course for tiling so just having a bash at the kitchen. Have laid 12mm ply and all seems to be fine. Have now bought the tiles can anybody recomend a good place to buy my adhesive and grout looking for a grey colour in Edinburgh preferably. :thumbsup:
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    Just found this advice on Yahoo about DIY

    The 9 biggest DIY blunders - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance :thumbsup:

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