My client has supplied Mandarin Stone 10mm thich polished & honed slate for the shower encl. and floor.
Back wall of the shower is stud, main end wall is solid with plaster, other end wall yet to be built.
Few questions I need help with?
1) What to overboard the back wall with?
2) Is it ok to...
if a floor is the same level throughout, but is half floorboards and half concrete, is it acceptable to screw 6mm hardibaker to the floorboards but just stick them to the concrete with tile adhesive?
. . . or is adhesive alone not enough?
Folks,
Taken up the old floor and the joists are slightly out of level, probably up to 4mm... This is across the joists, not along their length. Given the 25mm ply is going to be very rigid, do I just put in more noggins to allow me to screw it down firmly" and potentially pull it to the...
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I am looking for some advice about laying a fireplace front hearth of Porto Beige limestone and very much hope someone could help.
I have some 20mm thick slabs which are 600mm square and are leftovers from our kitchen floor which was laid by a true craftsman ten years ago. The...
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I am after some advice on laying sheet pebbles.......
I have a 'wetroom' floor to tile (it's a wet-tray style shower enclosure) and I have to lay Pebbles inside the tray, the walls and floor are finished but I am wondering what adhesive to use? (I was going to use Arduit X7) to fix the...
Hi all,
I'm really hoping you can give me some advice.
I've just had my kitchen floor tiled in light grey Jura limestone tiles.
The tiler fixed them on top of the existing ceramic tiles with Setaflex grey adhesive using the "spot" technique rather than a solid bed. Some areas where there...
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I'm realistic enough to know I'm no good at tiling and happy to leave it to the experts.
With the kitchen coming out and replaced in a few weeks time, the kitchen fitters are on a tight timescale.
SWMBO has found some ivory white porcelain tiles @ topps for the flooring (the colours...
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I am having a quarry tiles laid and the tiler has asked me to get the materials for laying the tiles. I haven't any experience of this so was hoping for some advice.
So I have a concrete floor, with layer of screed, underfloor heating insulation mats, electric underfloor heating mats...
Hi, I am looking to tile natutal stone, most probably slate, over existing mosaic tiles over a Large area. The sub floor is sound, but slightly flexible Ply under the existing tiles. It is in a commercial premises which was only re-furbed 3 years ago, including the floor, however has experienced...
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hi all ! iam half way through my nvq3 but seriously stuck on a few questions and wondering if you guys could help as its a LOT harder than i thought ! :yikes:
il list a few i am not sure on and any help would be fantastic ! :thumbsup:
1. briefly describe a floating screed and the laying spec...
I posted a few weeks ago when I was having a few problems with a kitchen firm who, as part of a new kitchen install, were also retiling the room. This forum was incredibly helpful then and I'm hoping it can be again!
Things have moved forward from a month ago and the kitchen is in and they've...
hi, i am new here, i am no tiler to say the least.
i have decided to lay some black porcelain in the hall way and kitcen. the kitchen is concrete and the hallway is floor boards.
for the hallway i have brought some 6mm ply and was going to put the tiles on top. i have picked up a bag of...
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Hi All, I will start by saying I wish I found this site a long time ago as it is very imformative indeed, basically i have been doing a refurb on a old farmhouse and have to my cost found out that there are pitfalls with laying slabs on a pumped screed floor, The screed was pooring in Aug 2009...
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I am replacing my bathroom floor with 25mm wbp plywood. I will be using 3 sheets of plywood and was wondering how best to 'butt' them together. I have seen on various forums that I need to leave about a 2mm gap between the sheets. Do I need to fill in the gap with a flexible adhesive and...
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starting a job monday, and they have the polyplumb overlay stuff in, which, from what i can see is 12-18mm ply, with grooves cut out, and the pipes fed through. reflectective foil keeps the heat going the rigth way, up. the system is screwed down to the chipboard floor, and...
Please would someone inform me whether to lay the wall tiles first or the floor tiles.
I live in Thailand, here they always do the walls first!!
and 90% of the time do things backwards
would be interested to know which is the right way
Regards
H69
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