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    Bathroom floor and wall advice

    Hi all, currently have a Self build in progress and require some advice, after reading a few posts and doing a little research I have come to the conclusion that my two upstairs bathrooms set on 600 centres posi joist and 22mm caberdek should have been 400 centres and a totally different floor...
  2. W

    Extending current porcelain floor tile without door strip

    Afternoon all, I am purchasing a new build property and the builder has already laid 4500mm x 4500mm porcelain floor tiles through the entrance, hallway and kitchen. As part of the purchase we have agreed they will lay the same tiling in 3 additional ground floor rooms but they have stated they...
  3. M

    Issue picking grout for my polished san dona marble hex shower floor

    Hello everyone I have a question I have installed hex polished marble san dona tile in my shower floor and 3x6 on the walls. I'm not sure what to use on the floor for grout sanded or un sanded.... I have ~1/8 joints. Thanks for the input
  4. E

    Dark circles from dot & dab on limestone floor

    Hi everyone, Going through a major refurb on the house and recently had a 13mm limestone floor installed in the kitchen. After a couple of days, dark circles started appearing on the slabs which suggests that the tiler used dot & dab to install (see picture). Not sure what adhesive was used but...
  5. shanabdul

    looking for Commercial bathroom floor cleaning in NSW

    Hi, I have a new project, its a small commercial office. Will be cleaning the carpet there. They also asked me to clean the bathroom floor. There are 12 bathrooms with what looks like linoleum (the kind they have on commercial bathroom floors) I only have carpet cleaning tools. It probably needs...
  6. S

    Repair of vintage quarry tile floor

    I am trying to match the grout joints of a century-old quarry tile entrance floor after re-setting a single tile loosened during renovations. The joints are about 1/2-inch wide and appear like un-coloured cement mortar with the sand grains very apparent (see photo). I realize that the repair...
  7. H

    Floor and wall prep - sense check please?

    Hi all, Just about to get going on bathroom reno and would very much appreciate if you could sense check my prep, please. Plan is: Walls Will be going back to brick > Prime with Mapei Primer G > 6mm notched bed of Larsen Pro Flexible FiberFlex for 6mm Hardiebacker, screwed with 9 x 6x60mm...
  8. Y

    Filling hole in floor before tiling

    Hi All I need advise on how I go about filling hole in picture before I can tile the tray with mosaic tiles?
  9. P

    Advice on raising floor

    Hi there. I need to raise the floor level on a concrete floor by 1cm in order to provide a run off to a pre installed floor drain in a walk in shower room. I was thinking of using 6mm pro warm sheets. In their video they have the sheets being laid on a flat bed of adhesive. But is there any...
  10. P

    I'm Looking For This Tile Boydens Travertino Noce

    I am in need for a few tiles called Travertino Noce. The colour is Noce. They are 60cm by 60cm. They were purchased from Boydens. My underfloor heating has broken and we need to break a couple of tiles to get it fixed.
  11. G

    Expansion worry with heated tiled floor

    Hi guys, I have installed ditra heating mat with electric underfloor heating over a 35 square meter area in my kitchen area (rectangle shape, empty room with no kitchen cabinets). I also planned out where the heating wires were to go and not go in regards to kitchen cabinets not sitting directly...
  12. S

    materie bc 30 12 x 12 porcelain floor tiles

    I am looking for materie BC 30 porcelain 12 x 12 tiles, Gres Ceramico Fine I beleive was maker or it could have been Leonardo Ceramica
  13. J

    Levelling floor between heated/decoupled areas and those without?

    Hello, I’m about to porcelain tile a long established concrete floor with electrical underfloor heating and decoupling mat in about 1/3 of the area, then I’d like to tile the rest using adhesive underneath only. As there’ll be a 5mm+ height difference between these heated and non hested areas...
  14. N

    When to apply grout to shower walls & floor and bathroom floor tiles

    Hello, I'm renovating my 2nd floor master bath. I'm about to lay down tile in three areas... on the shower floor first, then the his and her side bathroom floors, and finally the shower walls - in that order. My question is... Should i grout immediately after each tiled area's mortar it...
    • nelsonxm
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    • bathroom floor floor tiles former grout shower shower tray tile tiles walls wetroom
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    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
  15. B

    Kitchen floor tiling - Currently laid with Karndean

    Hi - I have been asked to tile a kitchen floor which currently has Karndean (Or other such...) type flooring stuck possibly onto a thin board, but it is ultimately all stuck to a concrete/screed subfloor. I've never been asked to lift this type of flooring before doing the tiling work, so...
  16. L

    Porcelain tiled kitchen floor - cracking after 2 days

    Hi all, Just after a bit of advice please. I had my kitchen floor tiled last week (porcelain tiles). I think there is movement and cracking/crumbling grout in some of the tiles. I supplied the tiles and the grout. The tiler supplied everything else including the adhesive. I think he’s used the...
  17. R

    Floor Preparation - Dry Pack or SLC

    I’m planning on tiling a kitchen floor in an older property that has had previous modifications. After removing some stud partition walls to create a square space I have two separate sections of floor which will require preparation. One section (2m2) is a concrete slab about 40mm lower than the...
  18. Troystar

    Floor tiling on screed with no visible cracks

    Could someone give me some advice please. I'm a landscaper by trade and have laid a few porcelain patios. Now I know interior tiling is not the same but would like to have a go at my downstairs toilet floor. House was built early 2000s I think its screed but could poss be the wet slurry with no...
  19. S

    Floor prep - hardi vs jacko

    Im soon to start overboarding my floor. (22mm chipboard tng) in prep for tiling. The floor is solid with no bounce. Having just used jackoboard on the walls and found it so quick and easy to work with im wondering can it be used asan alternative to hardibacker when it comes to overboarding the...
  20. U

    Opinions please on ongoing floor tiling job

    Hi, I’m not a tiler - which is why I have one in working away on my new kitchen floor! However I struggle to see the floor lasting very long due to the amount of void under the tiles. I raised my concerns with the man in charge of the project who said the tiler has since explained that he will...
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