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    Help Tile advice and Suggestions required

    Hello we are currently trying to choose a tile to lay on the ground floor (70m2) of our house. The flooring is currently chipboard with a membrane and polystyrene underneath on top of concrete. I have been advised that I will need to put no more ply or backer board down. I have a couple of...
  2. R

    Wet concrete tiling in old house - help!!

    I really need some sound advice as I’m well out of my depth. We have a little second home with a galley kitchen by the coast. Unfortunately we had a washing machine leak which soaked the cement floor over 5 months ago. I thought it had dried out having lifted all the vinyl etc. we had put down...
  3. Barbara1

    Flooring problem needing help

    Morning everyone. Just ripped out the bathroom in bungalow, and are going to place Hardybackers on the wall as Iam using large wall tiles. The problem is the floor, where I’ve taken up the old tiles it’s taken up some of the concrete floor. Some of the void’s are 10mm others 3mm. What you...
  4. B

    Out of plumb walls help.

    Hi I’m fitting a Nova Frameless 1000 x 800 Sliding Door Shower Enclosure with a low profile shower tray that you lay on sand and cement. I’ve fitted Some aqua boards and where I’m fitting the enclosure the walls are slight out of plum by about 10-15mm. I’ve already primed the walls with Mapei...
  5. S

    Help! Have to prove fire resistance to Building Control

    I own a shop with flats above. Have applied for retrospective building regs and the building control officer is asking me to rip out bathrooms and kitchens which back onto each other and upgrade the 30 min plasterboard which the tiles are set on to 60 mins. I just haven’t got the money to do...
  6. T

    Help ! Ceramiche Girardi - Giove Rosso ???

    Hi Experts I am desperate to get hold of some of the tiles in the title as they have been discontinued I believe we have had a wall taken out in our house and there is now a big gap where the wall used to be bisecting our kitchen and laundry area, which have the Giove Rosso tiles laid on top...
  7. D

    Tiler's Labourer (please help)

    Hi all. I have recently gone self employed having left my job as a school caretaker/handy man . I have my heart set on becoming a tiler having completed a 2 week tiling course over a year ago and having a go at various projects for friends and family, i am still in need to get some valuable...
  8. M

    Help! Kitchen wall tile job done badly - What do I do now?

    Hi all, I am hoping someone here can help me. I had kitchen tiles installed on Monday, and I’m really not happy with the finish. The grout lines are uneven, the plug sockets have been put back on crooked (I checked with spirit level to make sure my eyes weren’t tricking me), the tiles don’t line...
  9. T

    Help. SLC failed under tiles.

    Hi, a few years ago I used SLC in a conservatory on to the original concrete base. I primed and followed the pack instructions and info I found on here and let it set for a few weeks I think before tiling over it (I don't rush these things) Now the tiles sound hollow in certain areas. I...
  10. E

    Thinking about investing in my first tile cutter. Need help

    Hello, I am looking at getting a sigma. I am contemplating between the sigma ceramic cutter technical 26” (ART-2B3) Or the sigma pull handle 26” 3B4 Has any one used the 2B3? I am not sure if I am losing out on anything with the smaller sigma. I am currently using cutters from my...
  11. O

    I'm Looking For This Tile San Marco Tiles - Name of Pattern would help

    Hello, I'm trying to find San Marco straight edged natural/beige tiles in a pattern of four different sizes. 3 are square and one oblong. The measurements are: 15cm x 15cm 30cm x 30cm 46cm x 46cm 30cm x 46cm. If anyone has any information about the name of the pattern, or anything else for...
  12. Alf_Laden

    Tiling primer help needed!

    Hi all, Doing my first DIY bathroom tiling job, just a 2x3m space, but have run into an issue with primer... One of the walls is an external solid wall (Victorian property) and this wall was rendered, then skimmed with gypsum plaster (months ago). I heard that I needed to prime this wall...
  13. Has567

    Why are my new tiles bowing out and cracking? Please help!

    My newly tiled bathroom wall has presented a few issues in the last few days. Some of the tiles appear to be popping off with cracked grout lines and where this has occurred there is some bowing of the wall. I also have a tile in the bottom left corner that has cracked down the surface. This is...
  14. T

    Help - issues with kitchen tile floor due to demolition downstairs

    Due to demolition works on our ground floor, neighbour above complained that this has resulted to their kitchen floor to loosen plus hairline cracks on 2 tiles. So they want a solution to get the floor back to what it used to be as they do not have spare tiles and these tiles are from some...
  15. S

    Need advice on leveling bed (Quick!!!)

    Hello everyone, Happy Thanksgiving! I am a general contractor in South Florida and have a new crew installing a patio floor. Note the patio floor has uneven terrazzo, at ton of prep work needed, definitely not a easy job. One layer of terrazzo on top of another. 90% of the top layer was...
  16. S

    Please help me understand what’s happened to my floor grout

    My tiled bathroom floor is new but I have moisture seemingly seeping up through the grouting in some places. The affected grouting has taken on an orange colour with crystallised minerals of some kind in it. The floor is wooden floorboards, with some kind of baseboard on top (not sure of the...
  17. S

    Little help with tile stain identification pretty please

    I did try to research this - efflorescence? seems to be related to me having tried to clean the grout a bit so maybe just cement residue ? Disappears when wet, CLR did nothing. The tiling was done by the previous home owner who did a pretty rubbish job :(
  18. N

    Got to tile over OSB3, help!

    Hi, got to tile the floor of a small ( 12 ms ) new kitchen extension. The builders put down 18mm OSB3, glued and screwed, it ain’t coming up! Obviously would have liked plywood. What do you recommend as my best option, overboard with hardibacker, 6mm ply, or use a decoupler like Ditra? Any...
  19. C

    Emergency Help suggestions for Removing Grout!

    Hi all, new here and I need some desperate help. Recently got my dad to tile my kitchen backsplash, took a while as it’s was a herringbone style with lots of cuts, but once the tiles were on the wall it looked really good and was worth the extra time and effort. I brought all the adhesive and...
  20. T

    Help! Is this acceptable?

    Hi, a professional tiler has been working on our bathroom for two weeks and still not done. But lots of edges look jagged not in line with ceiling and door as well. Pictures below. Is this acceptable please? Not sure where we stand as haven't paid yet.
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