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  1. M

    Extension floor - decoupling membrane?

    Hi, I had a small kitchen extension built a couple of years ago. The new sand and cement screed has been taken right up to the old one over where the old external wall used to be. Obviously after a couple of years this has now well dried out. The new floor has more insulation than the old. The...
  2. M

    Seeking Floor tiles by Azuvi....

    I appreciate these are discontinued by distributor Tile Maze sold under BELMONT Grigio, but I just wondered is there anybody out there who might have some stock or a few left overs, we need to match up an existing section. Tiles are Azuvi 59cm x 59cm Basalto Grigio RC Classe1A Tono 05 Your...
  3. S

    Advice/sensecheck on floor tile preparation - backerboard and ditra?

    Hi, Can't seem to find a solid answer as I realise so much depends on multiple factors. I'm planning to tile my kitchen floor with 8mm porcelain floor tiles (660x440mm). My kitchen floor is mostly wooden floorboards (house built in 1925), with a strip of concrete along the party wall from...
  4. C

    Does aligning wall and floor grout lines use more tiles?

    Tiling my en-suite was part of a larger build project. The builder subcontracted the tiler who did an excellent job. However, the builder didn’t order enough tiles so the tiler had to come back for an extra day to finish. The builder is now trying to charge me for this extra day saying he ran...
  5. T

    Raising a bathroom floor with shims/packers

    I'm refitting our bathroom which is about 3m sq and am putting in a wetroom shower in the corner with the hidden tray under the tiles. The floor slopes slightly and not in the right direction for the shower. I'm putting 18mm ply on the joists and adding noggins for extra rigidity but am...
  6. C

    Limestone Floor Tiling

    We're quoting to rip up and replace a tiled floor with Limestone tiles. I'm looking for advice to ensure I allow for proper preparation & any additional/specialist materials that we might need during installation. There will be a new UFH system, likely one that combines a decoupled like Warmup...
  7. Flygirl27

    Cracked floor tiles in Texas

    Our house is approx 20 years old. Over the past 2 years or so hairline cracks have formed along two sections of our bathroom floor tiles. They are growing longer. Could this be a problem related to the original installation, or is it more likely a substrate issue? I’m wondering if the concrete...
  8. L

    Large format tiles entire Ground floor through doorways.

    I’m tiling a ground floor of a house approx 120m through a ground floor with 5 doorways in the hall way leading into kitchen, living room, office, W/C and reception room. The tiles are 120 x 60 porcelain tiles 10mm thick. My problem is going through all the doorways where I know the tiles are...
  9. A

    Hello & advice re shower / tiles / possible moving floor

    Hello there, Relatively recently we had a new en-suite fitted (complete rip out of the old fittings, and old wall tiles and floor carpet). This consisted of a quadrant shower enclosure, a stone-resin shower tray, new ceramic tiles on the floor and half tiling on the walls. All the work...
  10. M

    Quarry tile floor needs replacing

    Hi guys, I’m new to this forum so apologies if already discussed but couldn’t find anything. I’ve had a survey done on a house I’m purchasing and the surveyor noticed quarry tiles in the living room under the carpet. This has caused damp on the floor and it’s also present in the walls. He...
  11. E

    Lime concrete floor. Brand new.

    Hiya. Looking for advice. Tiling limestone onto a new lime concrete floor. Any special measures neede in sealing the floor? Anti-fracture mat? Thanks
  12. philupnorth

    Floor tile layout advice please

    I have a small kitchen with a floor area of 265cm x 140cm with the door recess adding another 20 cm to the length & I have tiles that are 120cm x 20cm. I will be coating the floor with an SBR primer first because of the bitumen on there & I have some old glue residue to remove first from stuck...
  13. Captain Scally

    Proposed floor build up over UFH

    Hi, I am trying to achieve a low floor build up including wet UFH over a new suspended timber floor in our barn conversion. The area is large, 21m x 8m. Having spoken to various UFH suppliers I have come up with the following: 22mm chipboard subfloor (already laid) 25x25mm battens at 200mm...
  14. Sprotty

    Cracks bridging screed and blockwork

    We are currently at the planning stage for a floor with bifold windows and wet underfloor heating. Basically the tiles near the windows will need to go over the screed and onto a concrete block on the perimeter (red arrows). I'm concerned that the screed with the insulation under it is likely...
  15. T

    Best timber floor base

    I'm about to start on an upstairs wetroom. There will be wet underfloor heating going in via spreader plates. The former will be a 22mm maxxus. Current joists are 7" at ~420 centres. 3x3m room. As all the floor boards will be getting ripped out I'm unsure what the best material to put back down...
  16. C

    Advice please Concrete floor boarding.

    Hi, We are tiling our kitchen with limestone tiles - we have already done it in the hallway and are carryin on through - The Hallway was floorboards so I used No more ply and this worked fine - however the kitchen is an extension so is 90 percent conrete floor and 10 percent floor boards where...
  17. B

    Moisture content of floor prior to tiling.

    Hi, I would like to know an acceptable moisture level of a floor prior to tiling. I have a newly laid floor (2 to 2.5 months) which is showing a relative moisture level of between 12 to 16%. The floor appears dry with no signs of discolouration (darker patches). Have been checking the floor for...
  18. B

    Bathroom Floor Tile Advice

    We are currently re-doing our bathroom. Everything has been stripped back. Property is a 1930's house. The bathroom floor boards had terrible woodworm so after removing and treating the joists for woodworm, we have replaced the floorboards with 12mm structural ply-board as advised by a well...
  19. C

    Floor heights , laying mosaics on concrete slab

    Hi everyone, I’ve a fairly basic question I thinks, hope someone can help me out with. I’m going to be laying some mosaics on a foot path leading to my front door but before I can do that I need to lay a new concrete slap to get a gradient from door to public footpath height. I’m struggling...
  20. atsgmo

    Amtico - but can we wait 5 months for floor to dry?

    We are looking for flooring for our new kitchen, lounge and hallway and would like to use LVT throughout. The vast majority will be floorboards but we have had underfloor heating put in a relatively small area of the kitchen and lounge which was screeded with 100mm depth about 2 weeks ago. We...

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