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    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...
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    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...
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    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 :(
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    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...
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    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...
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    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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    Help me with repeatedly floor cracked tiles PLEASE

    Hello! Please I need your help. I'm living in a 3yo department on a 5th floor (the entire building is 14floors). 3 months after moving in I noticed hairline cracks on more than 10 floor tiles, some of them linear and comprising 3/4 adjacents tiles. Others, just randomly on one isolated tile. I...
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    Large Porcelain Job help !

    Good evening Looking for some advice I have been tiling for a few years know but tend to stick to 600x300 size tiles and below when installing. I have a job where I need to install 1000x600 large porcelain tiles 10mm thick. I intended to use cement based tile board on the walls, can I use a...
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    Please help me! Nightmare polishing my Travertine floor.

    Hi guys, Please help me. Really having a nightmare here. Just moved into a new house and the kitchen has a lovely travertine floor but its dirty and neglected. I have a really nice dewalt rotary car polisher and read up about travertine polishing and people say to get diamond polishing pads...
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    I'm Looking For This Tile Where to find B&Q Discontinued Tiles

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    Need help on acceptable lippage and grout spacing please

    Hello all I could really do with some help, please. Insurance contractor retiled my en-suite. Walls had been reboarded and replastered, floor was reboarded. Tiles are Porcelanosa. I’m unhappy with the job. Insurers surveyor says they’re within industry standards. Can anyone shed some light...
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    help with siliconing a shower floor

    Hi guys my name is Lauren, I really need some hard to get advice and my tiling experience is limited. The floor in my grandmother's shower in an old second story bathroom is a bit flexible and the sealant has worn out around the shower floor on the inside. I'm hoping to seal that back up quickly...
    • Lauren 1985
    • Thread
    • advice beginner can flexible floor former help sealant shower shower tray silicone that wetroom
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Tanking and Wetrooms
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    Grout staining help!

    Hi - I have had a porcelain terrace laid and yesterday my dad grouted some of it for me. It was a nightmare day with weather and in hindsight shouldn't have started but now I'm faced with this... please please help. How do I clean this up? I've tried elbow grease, floor cleaner and Lithofin...
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    Cracked tile! Need advice!!

    I had ceramic tile installed and 6 months later I noticed cracks in about a dozen tiles. The cracks form 2 straight parallel lines 3 ft apart. The contracter says it is a high traffic area and the tile I chose was poor quality. The store says the tile is good quality and that it wasn't...
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    Can anyone help me find this tile?

    Hi all, can anyone help me find these tiles! I recently bought a house and unbeknown to me the previous plumber had 1st fixed the house in speedfit with joints everywhere buried in the concrete. Ive sinced took up quite a few tiles to cut a Jew chase in the floor and redo the pipework...
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    Massive Help Needed with old Plaster and Primer (Please, I'm begging someone)

    Hello All, I would just like to start off by saying that I've been in the construction industry for roughly 7 years as a Cladding Site Manager and Facade Engineer, but apologetically, I have zero expertise in Tiling and I am attempting a DIY Re-Tiling job on a very small budget for my...
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    HELP! External Grout

    Hi everyone, I am putting some porcelain tiles in the garden, on the floor, but also some against a wall (vertically). The tile shops have advised me to use this type of grout: https://www.toppstiles.co.uk/fixing...V8mDmCh3L9wISEAQYAyABEgKBE_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds But from my understanding this...
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    Need help with cuts

    Hi guys, I have started a job of 45m² with 600 x 600 porcelain. I'm having trouble when I'm cutting the tile. I'm left with a tail at the end of the cut and at this rate I won't have any tiles left. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Is my wheel height set wrong ? Is it just bad technique...
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    Tiler used dot dab on bathroom tiles - help!

    Tiler used dot dab on bathroom tiles but saying it’s not a problem. What can we reasonably expect to happen here? The tiler finished our bathroom today and when we’ve questioned the circular marks coming through the tile he’s confessed to using dot dab but doesn’t seem to think it’s a problem...
    • Lwed22
    • Thread
    • bathroom bathroom tiles dab dot and dab help tile tiler tiles used
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Best Bathroom Tiles
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    Help! Need to add shims for proper hardiebacker placement, but then wont be flush with dryway area

    Hi everyone. First time poster and tile diy. Thanks in advance for any and all help, tidbits, and words of wisdom on my project. I'm renovating an original 1957 bathroom in west Hartford ct. In order to place hardiebacker / cement board properly juuuust over the lip, I have had to add...

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