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    Replacing wood block flooring

    Hi, We are replacing some dark 1970s wood block flooring with natural stone. The wood block has been glued down by some black adhesive stuff. The blocks lift easily and the adhesive is only a couple of mm thick. It's going to take hours to get this up. Can I put some sort of sealer on it - or...
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    Karndean Flooring?

    Anyone fit this, is it easy to lay or is it a specialist job?
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    Particle flooring

    Hi I have a Particle flooring in the hallway which I'm tiling which runs into the kitchen, which I'm also tiling. The kitcken has cork tiles which I'm removing but they were layed on a masonite sheeting which is about 1/4" inch higher then the hallway floor. Should I remove the masonite or...
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    Bathroom flooring advice

    Hi Guys and Gals, As the help you all gave in response to my last post was so useful, I thought I'd pose another. We need to replace the tongue and groove floorboarding in the bathroom (due to a combination of botched cork tiling and central heating projects in the past - nothing to do with...
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    Can You Tile Over Parque Flooring?

    Hi guys, I have been asked by a customer to tile over the parque flooring that he already has down. He has knocked through his kitchen to the dining room, and the parque flooring in the dining room is level with the kitchen floor. The floor is in very good condition and solid. I said to him that...
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    Bathroom flooring - charges and timescale

    I'm a handyman who takes on tiling jobs when it suits, I know what i'm doing and do a good job. Sometimes I wonder how what I charge compares to getting specific trades in. I never give fixed quotes just guestimates, sometimes people don't like this which I underatand but i'm not going to shoot...
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    Cathedral Flooring

    Hi, I have been asked to do a small porch in Cathedral Flooring and just wondered if anyone has any advice. I would have thought that using a thin ben of addy would be best, any info would be much appreciated.
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    tiling onto chipboard flooring

    Hi, Jeremy here, new to forum just joined and posted my hellos. My question is: I'm tiling a bathroom floor the substate is chipboard T&G 18mm and i am getting mixed messages about what adhesive to use. My options Mapei keraflex Mapei keraflex with latex some ardex product specially for...
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    Concrete flooring

    Hi guys I have a job to go price and its something i haven't done yet. Its a kitchen floor one half is concrete and the other half timber, the concrete side is about 18mm lower than the timber.Now this may sound daft but can you board the concrete with ply to even the floor up so its all level...
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    flooring around toilet

    whats the best way to floor tile around a toilet??
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    Cathedral Flooring???

    I have been asked to go out and quote on a floor and the customer wants Cathedral Flooring, I have an idea what it is like, but not 100% sure, anyone want to shed some light on it, a picture would be very grateful. Cheers
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    flooring

    Hi guys, Bit of advice please, have a bathroom floor to tile which has a ped toilet and bidet these are fixed to the chipboard, the floor was carpeted and there is water damage around the bath which can be repaired, i have to lay WPB board of course but the customer does not wont to have the...
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    Flooring question

    I am tiling a porch and extension in 2 weeks time, the client has asked me for some help with solving a problem in his hall. The hall is 3/4 parqet flooring and 1/4 concrete, he wants to install high quality carpet tiling but feels he needs to cover the floor with a plywood. Is this a...
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    altro flooring

    Hi i am looking for a supplier/installer of altro flooring in the spalding lincs area can anyone recommend someone. thanks
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    Terrazzo flooring

    Been asked by a customer, if i can give an estimate for a terrazzo floor. Now i do know this comes in a seamless type or tile form, but thats about all i do know. I'm presuming the customer is on about the latter. Could someone give me a few bits of info on this type of tile and what fixing...
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    flooring issue

    im tiling a hallway for a customer jst now and they have asked me to level their living room floor for them.so they can put solid wood flooring down.It is a concrete floor and is about 20msq,however from the middle of the room to the wall the floor tapers off from 0-12mm.what im wanting to know...
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    what trowel for wood flooring?

    Hi I have a cloakroom, 3m sq to tile, it is a suspended floor half inch ply, with 6mm wbp screwed down at 150mm centre. I am using a nicobond rapidflexi adhesive on 300mm x 300mm ceramic tile, but the adhesive says to use a trowel that leaves a bed of 2-3 mm adhesive at the bottom with a...
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    Amtico flooring

    A mate of mine lays amtico flooring, he puts latex down on every floor then the following day go's over it with a hand grinding block then starts laying the tiles, i have seen him fixing them and they look just as easy to fix as ceramics...He gets £200 per day, a brand new van every 3 years...
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    Edge Flooring availability

    Hope someone can help. I saw this company's product featured in a glossy magazine I was reading in some waiting room or other a while back. It consists of real floor tiles that have some sort of framework round them so that they can lock into place (something like laminate flooring I...
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    flooring adi

    Hi Doing a bathroom floor this week 3x2 . will be using 9mm ply as customer says 12mm will make floor two high(on to t/g flooring) using Bal addi can you guys tell me which is the best to use as i want to try grout the same day as the loo has to go back for when they get home... Cheers...

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