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  1. D

    External corners and window sills/ surrounds

    I have 10mm black porcelain contoured/ textured tiles that I plan to use on the bathroom walls. If I use a tile trim for the external corners then the contour of the tile won't sit against/in the trim flush. Or are there specialised trims that get round this? What are the options I have for...
  2. Dan

    External Floor Tiles - Patio / Path Tiles

    External Floor Tiles - Patio / Path Tiles Best External Floor Tiles - Patio / Path Tiles going these days? I was outside Tile Mountain the other day picking up my own bathroom tiles and found they had a whole area outside with various patio tiles. Some lovely 20mm porcelains. Polished and matte.
  3. J

    Mitre External Corners - Video Album Discussion - where the hell are those videos? :D

    If you go into your albums Marc and select video only comes up and that's not mitres. Maybe it's me looking the logical way, 🤔😭
  4. C

    Mitre External Corners in Porcelain Tiles

    Looking to do a few mitred external corners this week (600x300x9 porcelain). Practiced the cuts a few times and very happy with that. Never filled the corners though. Seen some resin recommendations but most of them are looking difficult to source. The only viable option I can see is Akemi...
  5. S

    20mm Thick external porcelain, best adhesives and expansion joints

    Im about to embark on an external 20mm thick porcelain project 600x900's , I plan to use Bio gel no limits for laying has anyone used this before pros / cons I also plan to brace the expansion joints in the screed with a strip of uncoupling membrane to act as a movement joint, thoughts ? TIA
  6. dg-1984

    Mitred external corner and top trim edge

    Just trying to get all answers before starting a DIY tiling job. If your mitering the tiles of an external corner but wanting to trim the top with box edge trim, will there be an edge sticking out at the corner of the trim of 1 or 2mm, due to the tiles being mitred so the grout will be at...
  7. S

    External leveler. . . .

    See Tilemaster have brought out a dedicated external SLC, good move TM @Glynn, can only think of Rocotex and the ridiculously expensive Ardex for others... Should be a great seller
  8. N

    Help with external corner please

    Hi My builder has tiled my bathroom with bevelled tiles but I am left with an external corner where 2 levels meet on the bottom row and 2 cut, straight edges meet on the top row which leaves a big difference in the gap between the bottom and top row of tiles where the corner meets. I have been...
  9. H

    Poor external tiling... Next steps?

    Hi all A driveway and patio contractor just laid my 56m2 patio using 1000x500x20 Italian porcelain tiles. It looks terrible, but the contractor says it's fine for a patio. The tile supplier and Larsen rep both took a look and agree that it's not fit for purpose. Both suggested a TTA inspection...
  10. N

    External corner mitring in porcelain + grout info

    I've been looking at threads on here for a while but thought I'd post for some advice. I'm currently in the middle of a wetroom build. We're most of the way through tiling but have now reached the mitring stage. Some are simple external corners but we have to go around a window and a couple of...
  11. D

    External concrete slab for 20mm porcelaine

    Hello All, After a few months respite I'm back. Some of you may recall my pre-Christmas dilemma with laying 30+sqm porcelain on what I thought was a unlevel slab. Well I heeded everyone's advice and got a professional tiler in who did a superb job and it turned out the floor was only 5mm lower...
  12. K

    Tile adhesive for external use

    About 20 years ago, we had a sunlounge built. It's on a concrete raft about 6m x 5m and it's tiled inside and out with the same tiles, with the outside tiles occupying a band about 1.4m wide on two sides. We have a problem with the external tiles becoming loose over a few years, presumably due...
  13. Tile Fix Direct

    New 316 Stainless steel trims for 20mm external porcelain

    20mm external porcelain is a huge opportunity for tilers and at TileFix we are trying to make life simpler for tilers. Leaving exposed edge 20mm porcelain can be very unsightly. Grinding a profile can look great.. on through colour, but not so good on glazed. The new 20mm PorcelQuick 316...
  14. C

    External self levelling ideas?

    Morning guys and gals, Anyone used Wickes products for external levelling? Cheers in advance, Chewie
  15. C

    External Tiling with gert big porcelain

    Good morning guys and gals, I'm about to take on a big patio and I'd like any recommendations for the best adhesive to use. I've been tiling for nearly fifteen years now but this is my first outdoor job. I'm using porcelain, 1200 x 600mm. I think there's some levelling to be done on one part...
  16. B

    External Victorian path... Alderley Edge

    Well I was forced into screeding (sand and cement) this today... at 7:45am....... contractor stated it needs to be done and he will stand the cost if it fails...... Talked him out of it for starting the tiling until the spring to see if the base lasts...... No parking.... it was totally dark...
  17. S

    approx 65m2 external tiling in sw12

    Tiling of external pool approx 6m x 2.8m x 1.8m including 3 steps.Tiling of garden walls.
  18. L

    Tiling over external plastic drain cover

    Any advice on the above. A newly screeded conservatory floor. A small, about a foot square, external plastic drain cover in the middle of the screed. Client would like me to tile over it but my concern is that it being plastic, it would react differently to the concrete. It's also in direct...
  19. Slippery

    External corner not square

    Hi, I'm just stripping out a bathroom that will be tiled with 300x 600 porcelain but there is an external corner around 22.5 deg, all other corners have brushed stainless edging. I thought about mitering the tiles but this will leave a sharp edge in a place where people could potentially walk...
  20. G

    Tiling external brick walls (first job)

    Hi all, really looking for advice here. Really want to spend some time improving the garden this year and I have some really ugly low brick walls on the patio which I was planning on tiling. I've never tiled before so wanted to get some advice on if this was actually possible (tile straight...

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