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    Limestone Discolouration

    Hello guys, just fixed 20 metres of 15mm 900x600 tumbled limestone to a screeded floor with underfloor heating using Ultra extended set white flexible adhesive. When I returned to seal the tiles there was a noticible discolouring to the tiles which I put down to the moisture still coming through...
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    Another Church Stone Floor

    just started an interesting stone job in a chapel at a private school. ancaster white limestone 900x 600x 20 and 600x 600 x 20 out of which we have cut borders on site. three areas of coloured quarries. her area few pics of how job progressing. all products from tilemaster . will update every...
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    • aus floor limestone stone tile adhesive
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    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Black (?!) Limestone Issues

    Hello, I was wondering if anyone can offer any advice please. Before Christmas we had some flags layed at the front to form an additional driveway (the current tarmac drive stayed as is). We received quotes and looked at other work and settled on a supplier. They had finished another job with...
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    2 Tilers Looking For Private Job

    hi . we are 2 tilers looking for private job. london and 50miles around. if you have some options please let me know. there is some examples of our works. thanks GYO ltd. juris 07428474639
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    • aus find a tiler job jobs limestone london looking marble mosaic nvq porcelain stone tiler tiler wanted tilers tilers directory tiling job tiling jobs tiling work work
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    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Brushed Limestone Free Length X 550 Wide X 20mm

    Hi Guys Got a project to price up for a February start. New build with a 50mm concrete base over UFH water pipes - will be 6 weeks old at least when I come to lay and the UFH tried out slowly in the proper manner. 70 square meters on the ground floor. Walls are cedar logs that will need cutting...
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    Recent Job

    this was the twentieth tiling project that I have carried out for Ashley homes. we moved away from travertine and fixed 900x 600 x 20mm limestone from oman supplied by artisans of devizes. bathrooms standard porcelain .few niches in there !!! lovely project , best contractor ever worked for .
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    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Limestone Tile Removal

    Hi all, just finished a really nice Limestone floor with electric underfloor heating. I have small snag, although it's completely natural stone the lady is not happy with one tile in the middle that has a lot more shall we say: "Features" in it than some of the others, she'd like it replaced...
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    Guys, I'm Panicking

    Really need advice. 80m2 limestone floor is underway, Alpha screed, all moisture tested, sanded hoovered and primed , tiles being laid with anhyfix. The limestone is 900x600, 600x600, 600x300 and 300x300. When I first went to start my customer informed me that not all the stone was in the...
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    Grey Limestone

    Hello all, A friend of mine has a wet room tiled with grey limestone and is having a problem with white patches within the shower area. I have attached a couple of photos, just wondering if any of you stone experts are able to diagnose the cause and a possible solution. Job was done about...
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    Large Form Tumbled Limestone Floor Tile Advice

    Hi all, got a 70sqr mtr floor to do in tumbled limestone in sizes 1000mmx600 900x600 800x600 and 700x600, 30 mm thick. The builder has not yet spoken to the architect or customer above how they want this set out but I don't think it is done in a opus like pattern with them sizes surely? I have...
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    Sealing limestone tiles

    I have some 100mm sq limestone tiles that are being fixed in my bathroom and need to seal them prior to them being fitted. I have some boiled linseed oil left over from an old job a good few years back which involved sealing some terracotta tiles. Is this oil ok for limestone, I tried a sample...
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    Aug JOTM 2015

    Limestone Garden Chelsea
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    Limestone over ufh and chipboard

    Opinions please gents. I've been to see a job this morning where the homeowner has seemingly been let down by a series of tilers who were supposed to do the job but now can't. The floor is newly constructed chipboard caberfloor over 6x2 joists with a wet ufh underneath. This has been pressure...
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    Bad limestone made good

    Wanted to put a quick post on, with some pictures attached to give others,who may be tearing their hair out some hope that black limestone can be saved and with a bit of work, can get the results you were hoping for. After days of invaluable researching on this forum, we took the advice that had...
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    Wet UFH Limestone DITRA?

    I am a customer not a tiler! My architect wants to lay limestone tiles directly on to the screed which is a sand and cement mix with the UFH pipes in it. This is laid on a solid concrete base. The screed has SBR and some fibres in it. My worry is that the limestone tiles with all their natural...
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    • anti-crack aus ditra floor limestone matting membrane schluter systems ufh uncoupling usa wet wet ufh
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    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Limestone Tiles - Laying Tips (am I Mad?)

    I've just bought 85m2 of these Limestone Tiles The sub-base consists of a wet UFH system, covered by Keracem Eco screed. Commisioned and has been running since Nov 2014, so nice and dry. I've laid tiles before, but nothing remotely on this scale, nor any tiles so large. The pattern is...
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    Cleaning Fire Damaged Limestone

    Looking for advice on how to clean fire damaged unfilled limestone. The client tells me the tiles were never sealed although it's difficult to confirm this and the fire was a plastic based fire in the basement affecting the ground floor entrance floor tiles. It's difficult to say how much of the...
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    Limestone sealing

    Is it feasible to grout crema g Limestone prior to sealing? Not something I would normally do but..... Tonight I have just finished tiling a small downstairs shower room walls and floor with 600x400 tiles and will go back tomorrow to get everything cleaned down. Now normally I would wait a few...
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    • aus coverage limestone liquid paint seal sealing usa
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    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    String marks on limestone

    Just started a job with large 900 x600 x20 mm hard honed limestone. The tiles were separated by loops of thin string. In a certain light you can see the string marks on face of stone and also where it has moved in transit cause a blurred looped curved line.have tried wexa and power clean but...
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    limestone tiles 800 x 500 for sale

    Hi All I know someone who is selling approximately 95sm of 80 x 50 x 12 light limestone tiles.They are in pallets and are based in Oxfordshire.These sell for about £45 per sm.If anybody is interested and would like to make me an offer,please pm me Many thanks Mike

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