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    So What Would Your House Be Worth?

    ...........if u could pick it up and move it to London in to the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea? It was announced today that the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea is the most expensive area in the UK to live. With the average price being £2000m2 for a home in the UK, the price in Kensington &...
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    New house, too much bills, now im a tiler

    Abit about myself to start off with. Been in the building game for 30 years and can turn my hands at tiling but by know means a pro like others on here. Im a plasterer by trade but have had my fair share of tiling work throughout the years to know what im doing. Have worked for tiling...
  3. S

    1880 house with lime render.

    Hi, I am replacing a bathroom and after removing the old tiles have found old lime /horsehair render on brick. This seems pretty solid and wondered if I can tile over with 250 mm x8mm tiles after priming /stabilizing wall? Or do I rip it off and render with sand/cement?... There will be a...
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    1930 end terrace house. 600x300 porcelain tiles

    Retiling my bathroom. 2 walls of the bathroom are external walls(solid no cavity) and are pebbledashed outside. I have removed the old tiles and bricks have been exposed. Would Sand cement render in 2 coats a good one or can i just stick hardie backer directly on the walls. I was told that...
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    Tiles in your own house

    What sort of tiles would you/have you put down in your own house? Moving somewhere new in a week or two and keen to tile the hall kitchen and sunroom straight away as there's tired laminate throughout. Just can't decide on what to go with. I had thought about honed crema marfil...
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    House bashing

    I started sub-contracting to a tiling firm this week house bashing. I was a bit apprehensive as I have been strictly domestic for the last few years since I left teaching at the college. I am amazed at how it fits likean old slipper. Monday I was finding my feet and tiled and grouted 12m2 floor...
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    How DO you stop a customer devaluing his house?

    After coming out of a prospective customer house last week I spied a bloke I used know across the road(I plastered his new build house 13yr ago) I went and had a chat with him about this and that,turns out he is doing his very first diy bathroom refurb after getting his marble off the net for...
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    2 - 3 Bathrooms Daventry - 2004 Build House

    I'm looking for a tiler to do 2-3 Bathrooms / 1 En-suite Daventry outskirts. From 15th of February. I have 1 week-10 day time window during which all works need to be completed. Bathrooms are fairly small, I'll get full dimensions. During the works nobody will be living at the premises and skip...
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    Kirstie's fill your house for free

    Just been watching 'Kirstie Allsops fill your hous for free' ...Yes very sad I know. Where they do up your house for free or on the cheap. One person had a new bathroom, new tiling done by a plumber. The very dodgy tiling caught my eye....some lovely neat holes cut round the pipes and filled...
  10. Dan

    Topps to rebrand Tile Clearing House

    Topps Tiles is to rebrand twelve Tile Clearing House (TCH) stores as Topps Tiles Clearance outlets. Click here for more information on this article. For other news, checkout Tile News Blog.
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    Tiling pleasure beach fun house

    Hello, RE: JOB AT THE FUN HOUSE This is my first time on this forum. I am not a tiler, more of a general builder. I have been asked to tile a friends bathroom. He has plastered the walls himself. There is not one level wall (the walls have been boarded and skimmed). The bath runs along the...
  12. R

    lego house

    how do...need alittle advice.i live in a new build,(built 2012)the floor where not concrete is some green fibre board,its creaky,i imagine just needs few screws to secure.i want to tile the upstairs bathroom floor with 12x12 porc',of medium thickness.the area to cover is 3 sqm.im not sure of...
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    Excel Bond SBR from Tile Clearing House

    Trying to find some info about Excel Bond SBR from Tile Clearing House. Does anyone have any info on who makes it. Tried searching online but cannot find any info anywhere, even on here. cheers ubdai
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    How to tile a house with nothing in square ? How to clean old tiles ?

    1) How I tile a house out of square , like on the first picture ? The entrance is at the small wall on the bottom. Obviously one can't use the direction of the door and square to it as reference, intuitively I'ld use the direction of the middle of the longest direction 2) How to clean...
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    Advice needed Re-Tiling a Wet Room on the Third Floor of House.

    Hi All I had a wet room installed two years ago, by a member of the family (builder by trade) in the en suite of our Master Bedroom, located on the third floor of the house. It was prepared very well, with 3/4" Marine Ply boards fixed onto floorboards, a high quality thick and rubberised (and...
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    new build house travertine ivory light

    just dropped in on a project i finished in october to take a few photos. plot 1 from which photos appear below has been dressed with furniture on hire and on the market . this way of showing off a new house is very popular now as it gives a much better impression as to what new home owner house...
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    stone fixing in pool house

    this is probably the most enjoyable contract i have carried out. i had done a pool surround in the clients previous house. the client who loves stone did their own research, created their own design and ordered stone with my help about quantities only. I gave them the quantities for field...
  18. J

    Moving house need to clear garage

    I'm moving house in couple weeks and need to clear my garage out, Got loads of tiling gear going cheap Rubi ts 60 Rubi ts 40 Ryobi 110v Power mixer Aluminium hop up x 2 Wet cutter 110v Folding workbench Karl Dahm washboy Various other tools All been well used so not great condition but still...
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    Damp - rented house - where do we stand

    I'm living in woodford green on the outskirts on east london. Essex by post code. We are renting a one bed flat, quite nice considering the price of others in the area vs quality. All has been well until the cold started setting in and we realise now there are no air bricks so to circulate the...
  20. Dan

    House prices continue to fall

    BBC News - House prices expected to fall, say surveyors Not good news for trades. London seem to have increased 6% - but that's from a big drop previously, so it's not much of an improvement overall. Apparently east midlands one of the worst hit.

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