Hello everyone, I'm newly joined but have searched this forum many times before and always found it helpful and (hopefully) friendly!
I'm hoping for a bit of advice about my front path, I should say up front that i'm not a pro tiler just a DIYer but I'm worried I may have bitten off more than I...
Hi I'm just about to grout a black and white Braemar Victorian using Keracolour FF but I'm not sure what colour to use as they make enough shades of grey to run for Parliament
The choice is Manhattan,medium, cement,silver or even anthracite What do you guys think?
Have just laid some 200x100 white bevelled edge tiles, and customer wants a light grey grout, but using larsen and tried bal, 0n floor, im not happy with the way they both dry, patchy in some areas, I know when rinse with sponge you should keep water to a minimum to avoid colour fade, but has...
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Ijust started to seal and inpregnate a new Original Style black and white victorian before grouting using HG Porcelain S&I only done a small test area
Not impressed . Its given the whites a dirty shade and some appear to have soaked up more on the edges giving 2/4/mm border around the edges and...
I have been thinking,,, I want to learn as much as I can about restoring Victorian tiles....
So where could I get any info related to this????
I'm gettin a lil board just tiling out bathrooms & want a challenge.
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An opiion on the following would be appreciated!
I have recently laid an original Minton Floor in my bathroom on no more ply.. It has worked very well and I had no probelms...
Anyway I have a more intricate Craven Dunnill floor that was removed from my hallway due to damp. The damp is...
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my first pathway just completed.Prob the coolest thing I have done.And it had the additional advantage of allowing me to hand my cards to passers by:drool5:
I am really for the minimal spacing effect with victorian pathways!
Following on from a previous thread where i inquired about which supplier to use for geometrics to use on some Victorian paths and having got in some samples from various companies. I have pretty much decided to cut the required pieces as against purchasing in the form of pre cut shapes, due to...
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Hi Folks, new to the forum, so apologies if I've added a post thats been on before.
Spending far too much money on taking a modern house back to its Victorian roots, however the last thing to go is black & white geometric tiles in the hallway. Approx 1m in width and 4.5metre in length.
Looking...
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Saw a job today. A Victorian garden feature that was laid in the late 80's using tiles from the clients sisters house in the west country. 2 x2 m2, over hanged by bushes, which I said I will cut back, a gardener now!!!
Any way, several of the tiles have blown this winter past, the grout joints...
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I need to source some black and white tiles for my hallway, I know of olde english but cannot remember the other company, can anyone shed some light? thanks in advance.
Hope you can help. We have found some old black and white geometric tiles in our hall under some old porcelain tiles, they look lovely but they do not go with the natural travertine stone tiles that I am having laying. The guys are using flexible adhesive I would like to keep them for the...
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I had a look at a job today for which the client wants a complicated design copied similar to that of a Grassmere from the amount of information i could gather online, or at least that is the closest i could find to it. My question is, is there a supplier producing square edge...
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Was wondering what the going rate per/m is for victorian tiling.Got 1 to look at later(hallway).Customer wants ideas on patterns,colours and price.Never done it before,know its very specialist but hey,im up for a challenge.Any advice appreciated
Hi all,
I've just fitted out a victorian style bathroom with tiles from Original Style, it's a simple cream and black 4 inch checkerboard with black and cream pencil border.
I've spent the best part of the day trying to clean "grout residue" from the black tiles with an acid/detergent-based...
I own an 1897 terraced house in East London. To my chagrin I had to take up my original Victorian mosaic front pathway. I now have 5 large buckets of tiles, carefully lifted and roughly cleaned to dispose of. I am seeking no payment, just a home for part of our heritage. All I would ask is that...
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Hi,
Got to tile my brothers outside front step next week in victorian tiles,weather permitting.
I have been told to work from the centre and go outwards,also the face of the step is crumbling so not sure how to level this out,any further advice on this kind of tiling and the levelling out...
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All the info is out there on the net about this subject but I am seeming to go round in circles a bit...as opinions differ...
Here are my tiles, just a small number - won't be doing a hall or anything big, so this is not a majorly important cleanup....an improvement would be nice....
Some...
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Thanks will be given to quality advice on this subject and will surly get a couple of rounds in in the forum arms.
i was reading a post a couple of weeks ago about a client who wanted a wall job completing without spacers or as little as the 1mm and i think it was dave who provided the client...