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    Extra Large format tiles..

    Bathroom tiles 3000x1200mm floor and wall. What tools do you reccomend? Any install tips is much appreciated..
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    Large format Tiling and its difficulties

    Hi All. Just been to see the Wizard of Oz @3_fall . Met Marc onsite today to pick up some tooling. Given a good demo on how to use it ! Marc spent all day with me showing lots of his tricks and modified tools to make life easier to install these difficult tiles. Anyone out there who thinks its...
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    Uneven Large Format Tiles

    Hi, I am new to tiling and would like some advise on how to keep large format tiles flat and even on the wall. I am currently installing large format porcelain tiles to a bathroom wall that bows out in the middle and dips back in one of the corners (makes the tiles bumpy). It is an old house...
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    ANNOUNCING THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE ULTRALITE® FAMILY: ULTRALITE® D2

    ANNOUNCING THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE ULTRALITE® FAMILY: ULTRALITE® D2 Announcing the latest addition to the Ultralite® family: Ultralite® D2 is a ready-mixed, lightweight and brilliant white adhesive for ceramic wall tiles, ideal for areas such as residential and commercial showers and...
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    Imported 300x600mm tiles cheaper than major UK distributors

    www.stylescapes.co.uk Contact us for pricing info on our new imported large format 300 x 600mm tile ranges. We can offer significant cost savings against all of the leading UK tile market distributors. Trade volume discounts available. We strongly suggest enquiring before starting any new large...
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    Large format floor, anhydrate, 270 Sqm

    Hello fellas, About to price 170m 1500x750 10mm porc on anhydrate screed, big areas. Initial laitenance removed, will use Kerakol primer and bio addy. Also about 100m of 300x300 in smaller rooms. The job is in one of the most expensive roads in one of the most expensive areas of south bucks...
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    Acceptable lippage in large format floor tiles

    hi all, I wrote some time back about issues with ufh system, we managed to get this laid and poured a screed over to level the floor. The screed wasn’t perfectly level but there wasn’t a great deal of variance across the floor. We employed a tiler as opposed to DIY due to large format tiles...
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    The new Raimondi Raizor, ex large format cutter.

    So this is it, the very latest large format cutter out there, released just a few weeks ago by Raimondi. Standard kit is the two 1.7Lm rails, carriage and pliers, all wrapped up in a padded bag. The 1Lm rail is an optional extra. There’s one more missing piece, however, it’s not even released...
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    Dealing with wonky out of plumb walls and large format

    Helping a friend out with a small bathroom and one of the walls is pretty uneven and not particularly plumb. I've levelled it out with a bit of rapid set to get it flatter but wondered what you guys do with regarding getting it plumb. Its not massively out, just want to get it as good as...
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    Large format tile clippers

    Hello fellow tilers.i am just after more opinions about large format tiles ex 900x900 do you lads use clippers or not. What is your opinion is it better to use clippers or no?
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    2.5m x 1.5m Large Format Tile Advice

    Hi, I have 2 very large format Porcelain tiles (2.5m x 1.5m x 6mm to be precise) that need to go up on my living room wall for a feature design (please see picture). So a few of questions for you all. Firstly, has anyone worked with these large tiles before? How are they to fit? Also do I...
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    Large format concrete tiles

    Hi there, I am planning to install 1x1m 20mm thick concrete tiles on the walls of my bathroom. They are heavier than i expected at 38kg/m2. I have 18mm ply in some areas and bonding on brick in others and i was thinking of mech fixing wedi board over the substrates and tiling on to that using...
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    Large format tiles - Remove concrete skim?

    Hi Everyone, I'm looking into retyling my bathroom. It has 2 concrete walls - skimmed and painted - and 2 plasterboard walls partially tiled, partially skimmed and painted. The tiles I'll be using are 10mm thick porcelain in a variety of sizes, from 15x90cm up to 45x90cm. I've read a lot about...
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    N14 Tiler needed for large format tiles

    Hi, I need a tiler to install some large format floor to ceiling tiles. They are 1m x 3m is size. We got these from better bathrooms but they are similar to the XLIGHT tiles you can get from porcelanosa. We live in the N14 area. The tiles arrive soon and the room is ready to tile now. Please...
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    Mapei UK Tiling Courses and Training Days - Discussion Thread

    Mapei Ceramic Product Training Day at Mapei Training Centre in the Midlands, UK.
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    DIY Tiler - Wood effect porcelain tiles, large format

    Hi there..new to forum so not sure what to expect.. We are in the middle of completing an extension and I am going to complete the tiling myself. It an open plan area circa. 65m2. I have done some smaller tiling projects in the past but not with large format tiles. We are using 1200 x 200mm...
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    Cutting Large Format Tiles for Wetroom

    Hi Can anyone please give me some advice on the best method/tile cutter to use when tiling an embedded shower tray (1500x800mm) with s/s centre drain. The tiles I want to use are 750x750mm porcelain. I realise using this method will create many large diagonal cuts to the drain from the outer...
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    Another large format video

    Came up on my feed on YouTube, thought I would share it
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    Sigma Kera Lift, large format tile lifting system.

    so I'm currently undertaking a project at the moment with 1800 x 800 x 10mm Florim porcelain. This tile is harder than Ray Winston and Bob Hoskins rolled in to one! :) Anyway my point is that it's extremely brittle, as hard as it is. One piece in particular was giving me sleepless nights when...
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    A recent wet room project.

    Utilising a shower former design I saw somewhere on line, a few months back I believe, I completed this wet room a few weeks ago. It's a 1200 x600 x 10mm porcelain from Mandarin Stone. The short walls I re-fabricated the 1200's down to 600's so that I could keep the bond with the floor...

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