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    Laying tiles on wooden floor with G-flex

    Hi, looking for advice on laying ceramic floor tiles in our wooden floored bathroom. The area to be tiled is 1500mm x 1300mm, and is currently covered with a 4mm layer of hardboard to which is attached self-adhesive vinyl tiles. We now want to lift this, and lay 600mm x 295mm ceramic floor...
    • scoobysnax
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    • floor floor tiling laying tile tiles usa wooden wooden floor
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    methods of laying large tiles

    i am fitting my large 600 x 600 starlight quartz(tilehq) next week . im very confused with all your termanology of thick bed , back skim , back butter , suare notch trowel , half round notch trowel. 1- how do i lay the addy on the floor .... do i use with a 12mm square notch or half round (...
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    laying my first quartz tiles - help needed please

    this weekend im ordering 20+ 600x600 black starlight quartz from tilehq. i need some advice and help regarding a few issues..... 1- what adhesive brand do i need/use . i now know its a 2PF but in your professional experiences what exact one would be the best for a slowiish keen diy tiler and...
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    Preparing slate tiles before laying

    I am about to lay sheera modular slate tiles. Do I need to clean before laying. Or can I use the grime remover after laying and then seal before and after grouting?
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    Laying Marble on Concrete Screed

    Hi I have a customer that wants me to tile their hallway and also a changing room for their swimming pool The hallway (30m2) is currently laid with parquet flooring which was stuck down with a bitumen product. The bitumen has bled through and stained the grout lines in their dining room (this...
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    Laying that first tile

    OK, I know the concept is "don't lay the first tile until you know where the last one will end up", so when I've worked out all the measurements to make sure there will be no slivers of tile, are these the correct first steps (I'm starting to tile over a bath): (After wall prep/tanking etc)...
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    Laying polished & honed slate?

    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...
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    Lloyds laying off 15'000 staff

    Lloyds laying of 15'000 staff BBC News - Lloyds Banking Group to shed 15,000 more jobs Thats frightning...
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    laying hardibacker board without screws?

    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?
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    Laying 25mm ply

    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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    Laying a limestone hearth for a fireplace

    Hello, 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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    Laying Pebbles

    Hi 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...
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    Dark patches appearing on limestone floor tiles after laying and sealing

    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...
    • jburnett
    • Thread
    • coverage dark floor floor tiles floor tiling laying limestone liquid paint seal sealing tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 48
    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
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    any reason why I can't preseal porcelan tiles before laying?

    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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    Laying quarry tiles

    Hi, 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...
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    Laying stone over existing mosaic floor

    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...
    • clarkiano
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    • floor floor tiling laying mosaic mosaic tiling mosaics over stone usa
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    price for laying ditra

    what would you charge for laying ditra labour only 1500m2
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    Basic tools - laying natural stone (marble/limestone)

    Got the following tiling to do: 23m sq kitchen - limestone 8m sq bathroom floor - marble 20m sq bathroom walls - limestone Think I've sorted out the wet cutter (Vitrex 750 + Macrist CK850...see other post ...
    • edwardk
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    • laying marble natural natural stone stone tile setting tools usa
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    stuck on nvq3 questions ! laying sand and cement screeds...

    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...
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    Marble tile laying queries

    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...

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