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    Metros

    Hi all, first time tilling with Metro tiles brick patten & have few questions to tilers. 1. Do you cut the shamfur off when starting so you have one even thickness on beads/splash backs? 2. External corners, mitre or cut bevel off for even thickness? Thanks in advance!
  2. J

    Trowel for metros?

    Morning! Putting 100x200 metros on kitchen wall. I have 8mm trim and 9mm gaps between walls and worktop. Could I use an 8mm square notched trowel or a 10mmu shaped trowel to achieve the bed needed cover the gap (or near enough) and fit the trim? If these trowels aren't what I need to use...
  3. G

    Advice on re tiling kitchen backsplash

    Good afternoon everyone. I'm in the process of doing some refurbishment at my flat and the kitchen is my last area to tackle. I've taken.off the old tiles and that took the plaster with it. So a few weeks ago I had that re skimmed. The tiles I'll be using are 100x200 non bevelled metro tiles...
    • Gary_lewis3000
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    • advice backsplash bathroom clips kitchen lash lash clips metros spacer tile wedges tiling wedges
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: DIY Tiling Forum
  4. M

    Amateur Mitering Metros?

    I've just starting tiling my kitchen walls in white metros brick bond and so far so good, I'm taking my time and it's looking good at the moment. I'm just thinking ahead to when I come to the external corners which will be one corner around a boxed in pipe and two corners around the window...
  5. acaciaguy

    Kitchen Splash back with metros - setting out for trim

    Hello all, I have a job this week doing a kitchen splash back and window reveal. The wall behind hob has a boxed in section which means extra cutting. I had originally planned and customer agreed that they wanted mitred externals. They have now changed their mind and want to use white round...
    • acaciaguy
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    • back bathroom canada clips kitchen lash lash clips metro metro tiles metros out setting setting out spacer tile wedges tilers trim wedges
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  6. A

    Packing Wax. Portugese Metros.

    Metro tiles - wax packing over the last year the black/white metros i get from everywhere have become rubbish quality. still cut nice but fell more like an old 4" crystals really thin. The packing wax has got thicker and harder to remove. Whats the quickest / most effective way to get it off people...
  7. macten

    Setting Out...again

    Large kitchen splashy, 2 windows (one really long) and probably going to be a metro like tile :mad: From worktop to sills is about 11 - 11.5cm so when I was round there I explained common size for those types of tiles are 10x20s and showed why that would mean an aesthetic compromise somewhere...
  8. B

    Kitchen Splashback Layout

    Evening all, My first post here so please be gentle with me!;) I'm redoing the kitchen and after some advice for the splashback. We're looking at flat brick style tiles, nothing too fancy (probably these from Walls & Floors). The old tiles are mostly coming off fine, having been stuck on to...
    • BigJ
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    • aus bathroom clips kitchen lash lash clips layout metro metros spacer splashback tile wedges usa wedges
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
  9. T

    Tiles cracking, is it the adhesive or something else?

    Exhausted all options in looking at this. So. Plastered walls, primed, Weber set rapid, Homelux wall matting, more Weber set rapid, 300x100 Metro Matt White tiles Just in the shower area, the tiles have very badly cracked (no the weren't crackled finish to start with :)). I have aske the...
    • Tile Shop
    • Thread
    • adhesive aus crack cracked cracking debonding membrane metros rapid set silicone tanking tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 48
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
  10. AliGage

    Metros and finishing edges.

    Evening guys and girls. looking for some help sourcing a tile, decorative ceramic or something to finish the edge of metros. I have the situation of a half tiled room in white metros. Only theres a shower cubicle where it will be fully tiled. I'll post a picture later if I can. the metros...
  11. S

    HomeBase metros.

    Went to a job today to fit above tiles. Turned into a right disaster. The customer, a mate, painted some of the new plaster walls with some paint to help the adhesive, got this stripped & rest of the walls prepped & started to open boxes of tiles. Out of 3 boxes (75 tiles) I would only have...
    • Stef
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    • aus homebase metro metro tiles metros usa
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
  12. J

    floor tiles to go with metros?

    hello all, i have a client who wants metros for a bathroom, and he wants me to come up with suggestions for floor tiles to go with them. i've already suggested victorian geometrics etc, but but given the cost of them he wants me to see if i can find something in the low to medium price range. i...
    • johnryan
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    • aus floor floor tiles floor tiling metro metro tiles metros tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
  13. R

    Anyone seen any nice metros and floor hex mosaics?

    Doing the trawl now but need some direction based on direct experience. Anyone recommend any suppliers for the above tiles? Only 16m2 required for walls and 6m2 for floor. Cheers!
    • rc944
    • Thread
    • floor floor tiling metro metro tiles metros mosaic mosaic tiling mosaics usa
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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