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    Looking For Advice On Finding An Old Tile Type

    Hi Guys Ive just joined this and am asking all tilers for their help. I have just had a radiator replaced with a heated bath towel rail and its unfortunately left broken tiles behind it that need replacing. Ive measured the current tiles and they are at 19.5 x 14.5cm - which i understand is a...
    • Abi Wood
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    • advice aus looking old old tile tile usa
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Four year old bathroom has a leak. Need a Newcastle fitter to fix.

    I had a wet room installed just under four years back in a complete new build house. The wet room has now developed a minor leak. The fitter had used Wedi boards and some sort of glue on the top of them (sorry don't know my stuff that well) He has been out to have a look and says that with the...
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    Preparation to walls after taking old tiles off,and to re-tile after !

    Hi guys, Not sure if this is a tiling question or a plastering question,maybe both. Just been today to look at a job for a friend to tile 15m2 in his bathroom. He has removed the old tiles but the adhesive is stuck that well to the wall it would take about a month to take it all off nibbling...
    • tony4173
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    • aus old old tiles preparation tile tiles usa wall walls
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    Tiling Help needed! Tiling over old plaster/wallpaper

    Hello Everyone! new DIYER here. Me and my husband have just brought our first home which was built in 1890 and proberly not much done to it since then! I need some help with tiling the kitchen. We are getting new worktop fitted on Friday and before this we wanted to remove the existing white...
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    Tile over old self-levelling compound?

    Hi I'm retiling my kitchen floor. I took up the old vinyl tiles and am in the (very slow!) process of removing the vinyl glue. Under some of the vinyl glue, in some places, though, are dark patches of what I guess old self-levelling compound. It's not across the whole floor but is just in...
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    Looking for New Old Stock 4.25" square tiles

    Good Morning World, I am looking for some bathroom tiles. Our bathroom was tiled to a height of five feet or so, thirty years ago, in thin square tiles, 4.25 inches / 107mm, and the handbasin, lavatory cistern and radiator mounted on top of them, so there's no going back. But we now have a...
    • Starfighter
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    • aus looking new build old square stock tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    "New" old tools

    I've just been given this mitre saw, made in 1999 but not used. Hadn't even been taken out of the box before. Anyone else come across new old stock?
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    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...
    • ajs
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    • aus off old old tiles plaster render tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
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    About to rip up old portch floor tiles.

    Hi all Am about to take up old porch floor tiles and want to lay new ones Do I need to do anythinng like seal the floor under before I retile? Many thanks.
    • Radiantpaper
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    • aus floor floor tiles old rip tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
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    Tling over old tile adhesive

    I have removed tiles from ply and obviously old adhesive is left behind on the ply. How much prep does this surface need before re tiling? Will the new tiles adhere properly if old adhesive is left behind?
    • rich hand
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    • adhesive aus old old tile tile tile adhesive usa
    • Replies: 66
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    advice on substrate prep on an old concrete subbase to receive stone .

    I am quoting to lay a reclaimed limestone chequerboard floor over an existing base that is assumed to be concrete once the existing stone tiles have been removed by main contractor. there will be no underfloor heating involved but i would ideally like to lay some sort of membrane between the...
    • jonnyc
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    • advice aus concrete old prep stone substrate usa
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    To cheer old grandads up

    A six-year-old goes to the hospital with her mother to visit her quite poorly old Grandad. When they get to the hospital, she runs ahead of her mother and bursts into her Grandad's room. "Grandad, Grandad!" she says excitedly, "As soon as Mum comes into the room, make a noise like a frog!"...
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    d&d board onto old painted plaster - and then tile

    in the bathroom I am doing its an ex council the walls are bad ( pretty sure the council only employ monkeys ) house built in 50s artex walls , then gone over countless times with fresh skim over the years. this rules out hacking off for two reasons: 1. Artex 2. poured concrete wall the...
    • Guitardedleon
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    • aus board old painted plaster tile usa
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice

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