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    Video: How to drill a hole into curved ceramic sink, loo, urinal, shower tray, bath

    Sometimes if you have bought white goods for the bathroom project the holes may not be in the right place to match the plumbing layout of the room. But rather than abandon that trendy granite sink or that sleek white toilet it is possible for less the £40 to place the correct holes into your...
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    • bath ceramic ceramic tile drill hole how how to tile shower shower tray tiling guide tray usa video
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    how to clean a danish oiled worktop

    hello all,i went to see a job today where the lady has had a travertine splashback done 2 weeks ago,she wasnt happy with it and to be honest itsd a pretty poor job ,any way on top of that she has a wooden worktop stained with danish oil which has grout haze embedded into the wooden grain in...
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    How to check for damp?

    Hi there, I had an 'escape of water' between my sink and toilet unit in the bathroom and am dealing with the insurance company. I fixed the leak myself. The loss adjuster came out and saw a pool of water on the tiles that was visible when you lift the lid above the cistern and said that this...
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    How to un seal & re-seal a floor once laid

    Hi, please help... I have a had 30mtrs of beautiful grey polished porcelain tiles fitted in my open plan kitchen/conservatory & the tiler has done a fab job laying these tiles except he failed to seal them. Obviously within 2 weeks marks were showing all over them... it appeared like grease...
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    • floor floor tiling how how to tile seal tiling guide usa
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Advice needed. How to but up to skirting.

    Hi im in the final stages of preperation of tiling my hallway floor with absolute black granite tiles.But i have a dilema. How do i go about butting up to the existing skirting?. Do i remove the skirting and lift it above the new tiles? The walls are stud walls. Do i use a trim ? Or is there...
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    • advice how how to tile needed skirting tiling guide usa
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    how to calculate area of circles etc

    As Im not working today I though I would make a quick how to for any newbies or anyone who may not know what formula to use for calcuting tile quanties for design works which include tiling circular areas. I know to some, this may seem basic but, I have heard this type of question many times so...
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    How to deal with black mould on walls.

    Hi all, I'm wanting to tile my bathroom walls, but there are large amounts of black mould growing over the paint. I know the paint will need to be removed before i tile, but how big a problem is the mould? I can wipe most surface mould off with tissue but is this mould in the plaster and...
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    • black deal how how to tile tiling guide usa wall walls
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    How To Screed In Concrete Shower Base

    Hey guys picture this 1200 x 1200 concrete shower tray roughly 6-8 inches deep. Now it has to be prepared for tiling by being screeded from around 20mm to 1 - 2 mm how would you actually screed this in. please tell me how you would screed this.
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    • concrete how how to tile screed shower tiling guide usa
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    how to upload photos

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    How to seal a stone door step

    Hi, I am looking for advice on the floor in my kitchen. I have included a picture to help. My kitchen is a extension but the orignal back door stone step has been left inplace and has damp spots on it. Extension was built before I bought the house. Is there a way of sealing it so i can tile...
    • Priesty
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    • door how how to tile seal step stone tiling guide usa
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Advice on how to proceed

    We had a loft extension built over the summer with an ensuite shower with tiling over 3 walls. There were some teething problems with the plumbing in the shower (2 leaks), then we carried on having a leak, but it seemed to be leaking through the grout. Some Silicon was apply to areas of grout...
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    How to remove and level an existing wet room floor?

    I am doing a bathroom installation but it is currently a wet room. Can anyone advise best way to remove floor and level for tiling and any further treatment required? Cheers
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    • floor floor tiling how how to tile level room tiling guide usa wet wet room
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    how to deal with gap at end of bath

    I got home from work very late tonight and found my plumber had been and moved the bath into the space, fastened to wall and connected the taps. Although he told me the bath fitted perfectly a few weeks ago [at which stage I could easily have boarded one of the end walls] now there is a 1.5 cm...
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    Travertine tiles - how to repolish

    Hi - we just installed some polished travertine tiles which were finished to a high gloss. Topps tiles gave us grout cleaner to use with them which has taken the polish off and left a white residue or has bleached all of the tiles. They assured us it was suitable for travertine but i don't think...
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    • how how to tile tile tiles tiling guide travertine usa
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    How to start a fight

    One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift... The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!" And that's how the fight started...
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    Woopeee!!!Found how to adjust my D24000 !!

    Just by accident I discovered a very important adjustment on my D24000. The blade has always been over to one side of the exit-slot that it passes through when it has cut through the tile and was scraping into the aluminium more and more. By sheer accident whilst cleaning it down after a job I...
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    how to fix down a wet tray former

    can some one please tell the best to fix down the wet tray former it is one from wet decs i no there is some screws holes in it but should i use some gripfill along the joists as well
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    • down fix former how how to tile tiling guide tray usa wet
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    hubby's laptop infected with Security Tool malware - any ideas how to get rid?

    My husband's laptop is infected with the 'Security Tool' malware program, anyone any experience with how to get rid of it? He does use Avast, but it got through anyhow, and now he's pretty stuck...:thumbsdown: any ideas for him? I googled but most are removal software selling sites... which...
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    How to check for voids under tiles

    Another piece of advice given to me is to check this by tapping the tile with my knuckles. When I tap the middle, most tiles sounds solid but off centre on some I get a sort of hollow sound. Majority of the hallway tiles sound hollow in the middle. Any cause for concern? What will happen? How to...
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    • how how to tile tile tiles tiling guide under usa voids
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    How to fill gap at top of walls i have tiled

    Hi all. Im tileing my bathroom,done 2 walls floor to ceiling so far . Finished first wall on a whole tile at the top with only 2mm to spare so had no cuts. Thought great,what a great fit . On the second wall the ceiling turns out isnt level and i have a varying gap at one end of half inch and...
    • maninnottz
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    • fill gap have how how to tile tiled tiling guide top usa wall walls
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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