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    Max silcone gap for bathtub

    hi guys, i need to silcone around my bathtub, its been recently tiled and ive noticed the gap is quite large in a few places. It sits back slightly from the lip so the full gap is around 6mm in a few spots, and 4-5mm in the rest. If you put a spacer flat on the bath and push under the tile its...
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    Tile to wall gap advice

    Hi guys, after a bit of advice please. I am doing my first attempt at tiling, main walls pretty much up and considering both adjacent walls, ceiling and bath are all out and bellys in the middle i am fairly pleased so far. On the internal cornors in a few places unfortunately the gap between...
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    • advice canada gap tile wall
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    30mm gap to fill for tiling (photo)

    I had to move the toilet waste pipe over and am now left with a 30mm thick gap (see photos, just over 2 plasterboards thick). The whole area is gona be tiled with 200x100mm ceramic metro tiles so not much weight really. I dont want to bond it as it will take over 4 weeks to dry. I had a...
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    Builders doing Tiling, Matting Mesh stuck, Expansion gap not wanted - Advice

    Hi Started a job today and been thrown a few curve balls. Customer had tiles cracking grout breaking up (builder said he could do the tiling). Customer said half the tiles had been fixed to concert and half to floor boards. Sounded like a simple tear up, secure floor boards, fix Hardie backer...
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    • advice builders canada expansion floorboards gap latex matting not slc tiling wanted
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    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Gap between shower tray and plastered wall

    Hi there, Looking for help in how to fill a gap between my shower tray and the plastered wall. The tray is lying below the finished plastered wall in one section and as a result there is a gap in one section. My plumber fitted classi seal to tray and put tray into position. Athough the classi...
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    • former gap shower shower tray tray wall wetroom
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    • Forum: Tanking and Wetrooms
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    My 1st Job Huge gap left in corner.

    Hey guys, New here, and very new to tiling. But I had to take over from the job that was being done, as it was taking far too long and in all honesty, looks to be wrong! In the corner, I have tiles that do no marry. Resulting in varied sizes of gaps. So, do I cut tiny bits of tiles to fill...
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    15mm gap between end of bath and wall

    The bath is about 15mm less than the space from wall to wall that it sits in. I was going to just put a upvc bullnose trim or a bit of quadrant on the top and that would fix most of it, but how do you address the vertical gap at the end of the bath panel, especially and the panel has a slight...
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    Mind The Gap

    Hi I'm sure this must be a regular question, but no idea how to find the answer on here. When tiling around a bath, how big a gap should be allowed between the top of the bath and the bottom row of tiles? I'm sure I've previously read that it should be 5mm to allow the silicon to get in...
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    Plywood Expansion Gap

    Hi all, new member here. Some quick questions re 18mm plywood subfloor which will have 6mm insulation boards (marmox) fixed on top. What should the expansion gap be where 2 sheets of ply meet if one is needed at all and at outside edges where the ply meets the wall? If a gap is needed what...
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    Which Grout For Wall & Floor Porcelin Tiles (4mm Gap)

    Hi All, Nearly finished my bathroom tiling. I have installed large porcelain tiles on wall and floor with 4mm gap using kerraflex. I am looking for either a grey or black grout (need to run it past the missus!) what do you reccomend? Shall i stick with Mapei products? If so Kerrcolour or...
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    Shower tray gap

    Does anyone have any ideas on the neatest way to deal with the 15mm gap that's left between my shower tray and the tiled floor surface? The tray is enamelled steel 1400mm in length and although the feet are at the lowest setting, it's still 15mm higher than the tiles. The tiles are 300 x...
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    Shower tray gap.

    Having just put in a low level shower tray on my own and as a lay person I am not satisfied with the gapping at one side. I now feel it has settled not tight enough but seems to a least to be level enough in everyother way and to the other wall so I am looking to claw back several MM. Rather...
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    • aus gap shower shower tray tray usa
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    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    grout gap/ porcelain tolerances

    I'm about to buy and lay some porcelain 600X600.I like the look of the cut edge with a tight grout gap. I looked at some recently and and checked the the tile tolerance from the packaging +/+0.5mm. So if these are rectified and a 1mm grout gap is required then grading of the tiles will be...
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    • aus gap grout porcelain porcelain tile porcelain tiles tile grout usa
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    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    how to fill this gap at the end of the bath

    if the gap were bigger I would usually build a wooden stud and tile onto it but this gap is less than 1" any help much appreciated. cheers.
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    • aus bath fill gap how how to tile this tiling guide usa
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    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Underfloor heating expansion gap

    I'm after some advice on how to build in expansion gaps for my kitchen floor. The floor is 8sqm, and my current plan is as follows - leave a 5 - 10mm perimeter at all areas where floor meets walls. But what do I do with this gap? Do I put some special tape in it to stop thermal bridging or...
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    • aus expansion floor gap heating ufh underfloor underfloor heating usa
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    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    pipe expansion gap

    Hi I've laid a ceramic tile floor, however I'm concerned that a tile is too close to a water pipe that is coming out of the floor. There is a gap of around 1.5mm between the tile an pipe. The room is 1.5metres squared. Is this likely to be a problem? If so what's the best method to cut the tile...
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    • aus expansion gap usa
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    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Perimeter gap / expansion joint size?

    Hi all. I've had a bit of a trawl through the forum and can't seem to find any numbers as such. We're laying about 27m2 of Travertine over wet UFH, going down on Durabase matting. We're wondering how much of an expansion gap to leave between the base of the external door and the tile? And I...
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    • aus expansion gap joint size usa
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    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Glitter grout- worth it for such a small tile gap / area ?

    Soon be having 9 square metres off black 300x300 mirror quartz floor tiles laid in the hallway / small downstairs toilet area off the house, like the idea off this glitter grout stuff but just wonder if on such a small area / tile gap it would be actually noticed ? what colour grout would be...
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    • aus gap glitter grout grout small tile tile grout usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Is a 2mm gap ok for bathroom tiles?

    Hello, my husband is about to tile the bathroom floor with 300x600 floor tiles in brickwork style. He wants to do a 2 mm gap as it looks better, but adhesive states 3mm gap. Will they crack if he does a 2 mm gap. Thanks
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    • aus bathroom bathroom tiles gap tile tiles usa
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    • Forum: Best Bathroom Tiles
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    Gap between tiles and ceiling in the bathroom

    Afternoon Apologies if this thread has already been posted. Wonder if someone can give me some advise please. We are currently in the process of doing our bathroom up and have stumbled across an issue. Basically, we had to knock down the old plaster board the old owners put up because the...

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