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Hi guys just joined the forum hope to enjoy getting to know all of you Kevin

Hi all, I am currently renovating my bathroom and will be tiling with 450x300x13 marble tiles. For the floor, so far I have: Sistered joists to level them out, added noggins every 300mm 18mm ply (with latex primer on sides and rear) screwed at 200mm centres 6mm marmox laid onto Keraquick...

Hi! I thought I'd join this site as it looks like a resource for information and to share ideas.. I'm currently going through a career change and am booked onto a course for tiling with the Construction Skills College to gain my NVQ in Tiling. I'm looking to gain some real world experience...

Hi all, I'm from Reading and a real newbie eager to learn :) Excellent forum. M

Hello fellow tilers my virgin post!! Can i ask if any of you can recomened the best way to stone profile? Angle Grinder, Router or any other suggestions. Could any members recomend a good supplier for this sort of equipment. Thanks.

Hi all, have enjoyed reading forums, and though i'm not a tiler, i would appreciate some advice. Here goes.... I have just had my bathroom walls covered with plaster board. I would like this tile inside the shower cubicle; Dune Quarzita Brick | Tilestop Is water likely to seep through? Could i...

I have been researching the best way to prepare an old screed floor of 45m2 with no dpm, ready to take uniclic bamboo flooring. As there is a lot of knowledge about SLC on here thought i would ask. I have used a water based epoxy primer paint for the DPM with aggregate added to provide a...

Hi to all, just a quick line as suggested, plasterer by trade although i work in different trades including the installation of bespoke hand made oak items, fireplaces and woodburning stoves, jack of all and master of, as you might say.I have decided to venture into the dark arts of tiling...

How do folks - I'm a tiler in Northern Ireland, just joining up here to get good advice from you folk and hopefully even help out a wee bit myself. I'm not tiling very long either (about 7 or 8 years) so all good advice & good craic is much appreciated. Thanks lads. Greg.

Hi, been tiling on and off for many years. My question is, i'm about to do my kitchen floor and I wanted to check what i'm about to do is the correct way as it'll work out a very costly mistake, I just wanted to know about the correct procedures :) The floor is concrete with patchy SLC that is...

Hi nice to meet you all! I am in the process of setting up as a tiler and my first job is my mates kitchen floor. It is a rectangular room leading from a laminate floored hall and an open archway. 2 quick questions... 1. Is my setting out focal point the centre of the room itself or the...

Hi All, I am Zee and came across this informative forum whilst researching natural stone and how best to lay it etc.. I am in the process of renovating my house and after years of laminate and then solid wood flooring, i have decided to go for stone and have seen some excellent floors in...

hello to all the the tilers out there, i am a newbie to this but all help and advice will be much appreciated later if possible. just finishing my tiling course and going out in the real world. will keep u in touch with how things go. thanks... in advance:hurray:

Hi first off please excuse any grammer or spelling errors throughout my post :) I come to you looking for advice. I am 25 and looking for a career change... i have recently helped my dad tile a bathroom in the house and really enjoyed the work! too the extent now i am really interested in...

Hi everyone just starting out as a tiler, just starting the 4th week of an 8 week nvq tiling course at Ableskills, it's been excellant so far had loads of hands on experiance and been given loads of tips,advice and encouragement from the brillant trainers Max and Terry, would recomend the course...

Hi Guys Just joined looking for some advice, and about to post straight away. regards Glyn D

Hi, I'm in the middle of having my bathroom renovated and my tiler has hit an issue. The tiles for the shower area have an exposed edge to an old airing cupboard and he's said I will need some L-Shaped plastic trim to cover the exposed edge. The only issue is that I can't find anywhere that...

Hello Guys Fairly new to the trade with fairly limited skills, so looking for all the advice and views of seasoned professionals to broaden my knowledge, so i thought i would at last post a topic to get the ball rolling as against trawling through lots of old threads, forgive me if the topic...

Hi, just registered 2 c whats happening out there in the tiling world, Im Stef ( half of Robson McGregor, Tiling Services ) based in Ayrshire, between us we have over 20 yrs tiling experience so if we can be of help to any 1 then just let me know.