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  1. H

    Adhesive not gone off

    Got myself a pallet of adhesive (check other thread for make) and got it at a good rate, hence why i bought a pallet. Received it yesterday and after using another brand day before, i tiled the rest of kitchen floor. Went in today and adhesive still soft and gritty. Ive been wondering is it...
  2. B

    Advice needed - Leaking shower and tiles falling off.

    Hello, this is my first post! We have an ensuite bathroom. Last week water began leaking down into the room bellow. Closer inspection of the shower revealed that the grout had cracked in several places. A shower head test seemed to confirm this as the problem rather than the Silicon around...
  3. D

    Well off -up north to work

    yes off to chesterfield tomorrow to render/screed a pool then home then back to mosaic it :hurray:
  4. Sean Kelly

    Wall tiler - mornings work, finish off part tiled wall

    Just curious to know why this post was deleted?
  5. D

    Cleaning grout off help

    What would you guys use to remove any grout residue left in those bumpy, wavy , textured tiles ?, i have fixed a single row in my cloakroom the wife bought, and i gave them what i thought was a good couple of washes, the grout was granfix fast setting, lime colour when it was wet it looked...
  6. O

    30% off at Arco

    http://www.arco.co.uk/3daymegaevent?BV_SessionID=@@@@0410960995.1400529871@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfadgddeiegmlcflgcefkdfggdfki.0 Might still be more expensive than anywhere else though!
  7. Andy Allen

    Day Off..

    finished a job early this week, so had a choice of bringing another job forward or having a day off......looked out the window at the lovely weather......and you can guess the rest...lol...... joys of being self employed...:8: weekends going to be nice to......best weather of the year so...
  8. S

    Tiles falling off

    Hi all Been to a look at a property that we manage tonight. The bathroom had been tiled about a year ago but the tiles in one area have started to come away from the wall. The adhesive has gone all watery as if it is new but very wet mix. The area concerned is on the chimney stack. The tiler...
  9. P

    Be glad to get off this job!

    Started a bathroom refurb this week, nice woman, 3 daughters, 4 cats, 2 dogs, birds, rabbits, ducks etc...... Put a dustsheet down on the bathroom floor for them on the 1st night after ripout, came in the next morning and one of the dogs had taken a fancy to it and taken a big old dump on it...
  10. A

    Pulled off old tiles and plaster and render came off with it..

    HI people, I have a 2 storey 3 bed semi 1930s ex council house made from concrete block. with cavity and rendered on the outside, rendered and plastered inside. the internal walls are also concrete block rendered and plastered. making a start on the bathroom... top floor has a sloping...
  11. B

    Electric wet tile cutter running off

    I have a hired wet tile cutter and it is running off the line when I try a cut. Runs off by about 6mm over a 300mm til width. Tried altering rest and square but still running off. Doesn't matter if I cut v. slow it still runs off. Any ideas
  12. R

    Tanking peeling off

    Anyone had this problem? I've had it where freshly plastered walls, I've scuffed and primed them left it a day, then tanked, left it a day went to tile and the tanking was peeling off in areas, it was Palace tanking
  13. B

    How to clean adhesive and grout off the walls?

    Hi All. I have just had most of my apartment tiled, the walls are all freshly painted the week before and the tucker gas got a little bit of tile adhesive and brown grout onto the walls in most rooms. Not huge amounts but it does need to be cleaned off. Can anyone recommend me a stubble...
  14. I

    Working out a price off an architects drawing

    I'm sat at home hopelessly trying to make sense of some drawings that are 1:50,000,000 scale, and came across this little beauty on page 3 Has anyone successfully done an accurate price from a drawing? I've tried a couple of times and have never been anywhere near. This job is in London so...
  15. T

    day off

    hey how great is it ,my only day off in weeks and the kids had me up at 6 this morning ahhhhhhhhhhh god some time , right its off down the beach to let them run around with the hope I might get a snooze on the sofa this afternoon lol :mad2:
  16. M

    off to wembley tmoz....

    keep a look out for the tea bag in the stands tmoz il be in the stands... don't even watch football at all but have been asked to take my little bro in-law so will be a first and a good experience might i add.
  17. C

    Tile Master PrimePlus Flexible Primer Peeling Off Plaster Skim

    Hi all, I applied Tile Master PrimePlus Flexible Primer around my bath and sink and for some reason it peels off very easy and has not soaked into the plaster skim so I did not start to tile as I thought it would pull right off with the weight of them if I had carried on. The plaster skim was...
  18. M

    Am off outta town

    I hate working away so not looking forward to ,working in Yorkshire this week on a pub refit,100m2 black metros 34m2 of slate and 18m2 of geometric tiles ,couldn't think of any worse tiles to be doing on a re-fit.
  19. Andy Allen

    day off

    thank you teachers....:thumbsup: not only are you well paid, have half the year off on holiday, its still not enough, you need another day off...:mad2: can I send you a bill for my lost day's pay...?
  20. Dan

    Holiday Auto Reply Emails - Are they off if you're back off holiday?

    We're getting a lot of automatic replies to emails sent from the forum (thread subscription emails so ours are automated too). The irony. Emails automatically talking to each other eh? Anyway, I fear a lot of the owners of the email addresses will actually be off holiday as I have seen quite a...

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