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  1. L

    Please help grout!!!

    Please help iv had my tiles laid by a professional tiler he wasnt cheap either recommended by alot of people but my grouting is all different colours 😢 can anyone give me some advice were calling him in the morning so hes not aware at the moment ???
  2. S

    Help needed...

    Help!!! Looking for 2 boxes of New Luna beige tiles from Homebase. They’re discontinued in store. Could anyone help? I’m in South Wales. TIA
  3. cosmogal14

    Please help! Subway tiles are a shambles

    A family friend has tiled my kitchen with subway tiles however there is a lot of areas that are awful! They have been left to set overnight and I am wondering will it be possible to remove the singular tile (so I can attempt to fix it myself) before I grout? Thank you in advance! Here is an...
  4. Mikeshipman

    Help on a bad tile job

    Hi first time poster here I’ve just had my kitchen floor tiled and the tile lippage on a number on the tiles exceeds BS I’ve attached a couple of pictures where I’ve measured the gap with a level and steel rule. If anyone can provide any advice I reckon over the floor approx 40 out of 125 tiles...
  5. P

    Black asphalt help

    Hi all, thanks I’m advance for any help I've pulled up the floor on the bottom floor of a house. It has a black asphalt layer. I’m looking to lay underfloor heating so I’m going to use tile adhesive to stick down insulation boards, then the heating system and finally tile on top. My...
  6. A

    Please help, this doesn't seem right at all

    Hi all, I was wondering if you can possibly help me out. Just had a tiler come and tile the downstairs hall and bathroom and i really don't think these should be looking like this. He is wanting to come back in the next couple of days to stick them down and grout them but i am really concerned...
  7. J

    Kitchen Floor - Tiles Dilemma - Need Help

    Hi, I recently purchased my first property and the existing kitchen floor porcelain tiles were all moving, some were cracked and the grout was missing in places and crumbling away. I decided to get the whole floor re-done. I found a tiler on RatedPeople to take it all up. He took up all the...
  8. P

    Price help needed

    Hello, just a question about an average price. Haven’t tiled in quite a few years and wondered what you guys are charging for ufh mat installation and self levelling over. Total size of room is 4 sq m, so the mat will be smaller obviously. West Country area. Price per sq m if possible for both...
  9. H

    Contractor did not use recommended adhesive over old tiles - how big a problem?

    I am part-way through having retrofit underfloor heating installed (the panel type) and in a couple of rooms it is going down over old vinyl tiles which contain asbestos (so we decided not to disturb them). We had the old tiles checked by a tiler and he said they were sound enough for the panels...
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  10. J

    Help!!

    Hoping someone can help with this. Just tiled my kitchen with 200x100 flat metro style tiles. I used Schmox clips as seen recommended on here. Made sure to clean the grout lines etc before snapping but there all snapping above the grout line. 1. what is the correct technique for snapping them...
  11. D

    Porcelain HELP please!!

    I am a home diyer trying to lay a porcelain patio!!. I already have my sub base down and compacted, where I am struggling is the laying. i have Italian porcelain, 20mm in depth, 1200mm long and 600 wide. I am laying the slabs in linear (parallel) pattern , where I am struggling is getting them...
  12. G

    Help!! Pro advice needed

    Hi everyone, I really need some pro advice as I have just had a bathroom fitted and the tiling is pretty bad, but the building company I used are saying that this is how it's done.... So anyway the bathroom is about 4mt long and just about 1.5mt wide. Open rain Shower at one end, toilet at the...
  13. C

    I'm Looking For This Tile help in locating this style?

    Hello to the forum! Am a homeowner and DIY tiler frustrated by my inability to find a discontinued tile, so am turning to you all. A plumbing issue in kitchen forced us to break apart several tiles, more than i had in reserve. Tile is American Olean porcelain, 13 x 13, sienna brown (although...
  14. P

    Help with identifying tile manufacturer

    Hi, I've got a few tiles cracked in my kitchen and I'd like to replace them. Luckily I found some spare ones but not enough and I wonder I anyone could help me with identifying the manufacturer. I've attached photos of tiles including two different logos on the back. The dimensions are 60cm X...
  15. H

    Help!! No grout spacers is that ok??

    I originally asked for 1-2mm grout lines on these tiles. https://www.tiles-direct.com/wall-tiles-c26/zurbaran-range-c2170/zurbaran-turquoise-11-2cm-x-22-4cm-wall-tile-p4947 Presuming you’d need to allow for thermal expansion and good watertight seal. But yesterday builder absolutely assured me...
  16. Rustytabitha

    Help advice urgently needed

    Can I ask urgent advice please. Main problem; Where he took tiles off the adhesive had been put on in blobs; is this right? (sometimes fixed onto flaky emulsion) The tiles are all chipped. The tiler says it is the tiles they need specialise equipment to cut so we have to put up with chips all...
  17. Rustytabitha

    Please help are tiling methods used correct?

    Can I ask advice please; I have MS and the worry is making me ill. The tiles are all chipped. The tiler says it is the tiles they need specialise equipment to cut so we have to put up with chips all round window- at first he was going to hide with trim but it looked wrong. See pics. he has...
  18. S

    Help with uneven chipboard floor to level and prep for tiles

    Hello, I hope you can help me ... My kitchen was tiled over concrete floor but tiles were cracking because floor had different levels and was uneven. To fix this the contractors have used 15 or 18 mm wp chipboard over the old tiles with a lot of adhesive but the problem still persists as you can...
  19. R

    Intermediate Tiler need HELP.... Thankyou

    So I recently took on this job that a cowboy ran from. They seem to be getting more and more common... So im facing a bit of a dilema I cant figure out. Inside the pond will be 300x300 blue glass mosaics The top of lip of the pond will be the brown 300x 600s along with all the sides and...
  20. T

    Help! New tiled balcony taking on rain

    Newbie here so apologies if it's a bit long, trying to get as much info across. Living in Cyprus, have added a second story to a bungalow, basically a free standing steel construction on top. We have a 7m x 1m long balcony that ends with an extra 4x4m corner. Two weeks ago 1 x 1 m tiles were...
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