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  1. M

    Help! Fitter has walked off job & said this work is fine.

    My mum is having her bathroom fitted and she sent me some photos and my partner pointed out that several things weren’t looking great. I spoke to the contractor and he said we didn’t know what we were talking about and that he’d been in the trade for 30+ years and told his fitter to carry on...
  2. annnajoy

    Help identify my mystery wall tile!

    I've had no luck identifying this wall tile with online reverse image searches and would be more than grateful if someone can help me identify it here! My apartment building is over 100 years old, and this wall tile was probably installed 50+ years ago. Maintenance is no help so I'm taking...
  3. A

    PLM not snapped in right place stuck in grout lines HELP!

    Afternoon all Perfect Level Master first time tiling went for the best (highly rated on here). Worked wall so far just come to knock them out with a rubber mallet and we’ll some haven’t exactly broken in the right place leaving plastic bits protruding through the grout lines (see pic). Most...
  4. J

    Replacing screed - help needed

    I've got a very thin layer (3 or 4 mm) of screed over old bathroom tiles which we had link flooring put over. Unfortunately the toilet leaked and the lino was damaged, I've pulled it up and found the screed below is slightly damaged. I've cracked and pulled up the offending bits but am I...
  5. T

    Double herring bone backsplash help.

    Hello all I am new here so I hope that I can post this here. I am a tile contractor in Denver c.o. I have a job coming up involving setting a double herring bone backsplash. It's a three wall kitchen and two of the walls are already done with double herring bone pattern. In the first corner who...
  6. A

    Plaster coming off with old tiles... Help please

    Hello all, I have just taken the tiles off the wall behind my sink and some plaster has come off (see pics). Please could someone recommend a product to repair ready for the new tiles? Many thanks
  7. C

    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...
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
  17. 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...
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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...
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