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    b&q how to tile dvd ( or maybe how not to tile)

    Was at a customers house today tiling her kitchen backsplash and noticed she had a b&q how to tile dvd and she asked me if was any good to me and told me to take it, I thought I'd have a quick watch and I've got to say i must be doing everything wrong. It advises you to seal painted wall with...
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    How to be a Speed Tiler

    Found this on Youtube.<br> <br> I was impressed because this woman tiled her shower in 2 and a half minutes, her setting and tiling technique was good, and she managed to tile a shower without getting any addy on her t shirt and shorts!<br> <br> Not sure if I approve of the adhesive she was...
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    How to fix items to a hardibacker board wall

    Hello everyone. I have a timber stud wall with hardibacker board and 10mm thick porcelain tiles. I need to fix a shower rail and other various small items to this wall. What is the best method of fixings items to this? I was thinking using the metal plaster board fixings, the ones with...
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    Shower room floor - how to spread the tiles?

    That's my first floor to lay so... IMG_1222 by Furtek, on Flickr In the far end is toilet, on the left is sink and on the right will be shower glass door. checker style(black and white) thanks !
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    how to make slurry for bitumen?

    Hi all do i make a slurry mix i know its 50/50 sbr primer and rapid set addy can i use flexible rapid set and do just mix these two or do i mix the adhsive with water as usual then add sbr?? sorry guys first time mixing slurry, please help!
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    How to remove tiles from a rendered bathroom wall

    Hi guys, Am new to this forum and am in need of some good advice. Basically, i am a plumber who has taken on this bathroom job. The guy who lived there before the owners apparently was a tiler. Now, the new owner told me that the tiles were extremely difficult to get off. And that he had tiled...
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    Technical request: Large holes into porcelain tiles how to cut or drill large holes

    This project was a technical request from a customer on how to put a hole into a tile high up in a bathroom on tiles that had already been installed (fixed to the wall). He wanted to know how he could drill so high up on the bathroom wall. Hello 365, I have to install a new 100mm vent fan...
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    How to Set Out Around Bath With Shower

    Hi Having a go at wall tiling for the first time but need a pointer before I start. Could someone please give me an idea of how to set out tiles around a bath that also has a thermostatic shower at one end. The shower unit has two pipe tails which have to be tiled around. Do I start at the...
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    how to build a bath panel

    does anyone else build a bath panel as such ?
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    How to support first row tiles in tanked shower?

    I've just tanked my shower (using BAL WP1) and am ready to start tiling. Normal practice is obviously to begin tiling just under one tile hight up from the tray and support the first row of tiles on level wooden battons screwed or nailed to the wall. But this will pierce the tanking, which I'm...
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    Help - how to get a straight mosaic border

    I have tiled a bit of the bathroom wall with large tiles floor to ceiling with a mosaic border running through the middle (the mosaic border is a small brick style on a mesh so I can cut the border to size). However the small area I have done hasn't gone to plan! The top tiles seemed to have...
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    how to get regular work?

    Hi all Can anyone offer me any advice on the best way to get regular work. My situation is this: (i'll try and keep this brief) Got laid off from my job (after 17yrs) in January (newspaper printer), done a tiling course in march this year, got my NVQ tiling qualification, CSCS card etc and...
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    Limestone hearth - when & how to seal

    I'm hoping to have a log burner installed later this year and have bought some black-blue limestone tiles to use as a hearth. A friend of a friend is going to fit the stove and lay the hearth but I thought I'd do some groundwork myself, as he kept mentioning Indian sandstone as a hearth and...
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    advice on how to tile around a window.

    I just finish to tile over a complete bathroom (floor to ceiling). There was one part of the job that i found quite of a challenge, tiling around the window! using large porcelain tiles (600 x 400). So my question is: - where would you start? would you start from the centre and work your way out...
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    Unusual backyard landing and steps – how to approach it

    Hi Guys You can see out the back of my place there is a landing covered in paint which I want to tile, the actual steps overhang the brick which is weird and so downs the landing. What’s the best way to handle this? Should I level out the steps so they are like a block, tile just the landing...
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    How to stop grout becoming discoloured on kitchen floor

    Hi, I have a problem with the grout in between our kitchen floor tiles, the tiles are beige and the grout is also beige. After my husband tiled the floor we religiously applied a liquid that we bought from the tile shop (which we suspect is probably Unibond)? in order to stop the grout...
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    How to cut mosaic tiles? & setting out question

    Hi all, two for one today! What is the preferred method to cut mosaic tiles? They are tumbled marble. Each mosaic tile is 3cm x 3cm on a mesh backing I have a big clinker manual tile cutter and some ebauer wet blade cutter also, bit unsure with setting out this particular circumstance.. To...
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    how to remove PVA from ply floor ?

    got a floor job today , and the joiner has just let me no he has used PVA to seal the ply floor ???? any tips on how to remove it ? would sanding it off work ? thanks
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    Rough but sound concrete conservatory floor , how to prepare for tiling ??

    I have a 14sqm conservatory 20yr old concrete floor with a 1 sq mtr rough patch, where the builder ran short of concrete and patched over later. Want to tile with 32x32cm ceramic. The highest snotty points on rough area are around 6mm. can I just use the spanish solution ? of an extra...
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    Norfolk Showering Bath - How to create a good seal to the wall.

    I am about to install a bath as pictured in Mark Bs album Picture 4 of 6 from Bathroom 1. It would appear the way to do this is to tile first and then fit the bath (bath legs will be screwed to floor) - see original post...

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