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  1. V

    Fixed Quadrant And A Flipper Hung Off Of It

    Sorry about the weird posts, but you lot must have come across all manner of configurations, even if this isn't much to do with the skills of a tiler. Managed to come up with a design below that I think works, but ideally it needs a fixed quadrant panel and a hinged flipper hung off of it...
  2. N

    Cant get grout off porcelain matt tiles

    ..my tiler has grouted my bathroom and hasn't cleaned the grout off properly....the tiles are a Matt porcelain and the grout seems to have sunk in leaving white patches all over the tiles where they haven't been cleaned right,,,, the white residue all over the tiles seems to be coming off but...
  3. Dave

    I'm off , see ya later peeps.

    Enjoy working peeps , i'm off on my jollies tomoz.... Cyprus ere i come. :)
  4. Dave

    A Tilers Day Off

    I know what will come next lol , who gets a day off lol lol.. But what's a tilers day off entail , is it paperwork or taking the wife shopping lol... Or just a good old chill out...
  5. J

    Addy going off too fast

    Hi all Bought a couple of bags of Gran-fix flexible addy to finish off a project - the previous ones were fine but these two are going off incredibly fast. To give it some perspective, I usually make a mix using about a litre of water, which in this case gives me enough time to get about ten to...
  6. S

    best way off...

    and most cost effective way off bringing a wood floor up an inch?? I have a job to price up going to look at it tomorrow... 45m through three rooms 2 off which are the same level but was told one room is aprox an inch lower. The customer wants the tiles to run through at the same finished...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. 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:
  10. Sean Kelly

    Wall tiler - mornings work, finish off part tiled wall

    Just curious to know why this post was deleted?
  11. 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...
  12. 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!
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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...
  20. 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...

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