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    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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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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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    diy dot and dab disaster!

    been out today to look at a diy tiling job gone wrong customer spent £860 on tiles large format porcelain tiles he thought he would save money by doing it himself so he procceded to dot and dab in a 24sq mtr bathroom 4 tiles had come of his first row with a large chip in the base of the shower...
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    dot and dab

    I came across a tiler the other day when working on site and he was laying wall tiles using the dot and dab technique - if you can call it a technique that is!!!!!!! Surely this cannot be right??? Must be a rogue tiler??? Anyone got any thoughts on this ???
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    How to DOT AND DAB ?

    just wanted to know of how to dat and dab succesfully What the processes are and what materials and tools i need Cheers
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    green plasterboard dot and dab

    Hi The shower tray simple installation I went to 3 days ago has turned into a major refit. The tiling is poor to say the least, but well fixed - so can I dot and dab the green plasterboard onto the existing tiles and if so with what do you recommend? I assume there will be no need to roughen...
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    Dot and dab - hope you can help

    Good afternoon all. Hope you can help with a dot n dab query we have. We are plasterboarding a downstairs loo but due to the small size would prefer to dot n dab rather than batten (is that how you spell it?). The plasterboard is only to to go on a wall but it is the wall where the sink will...

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