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    Should i fill out with addy

    This week i am refitting a bathroom to a shower room, tiling all walls and floor. When removing the tiles, the floor tiles where tiled ontop of floor tiles ontop of 3inch floor boards. Surprisingly the tiles that where tiled onto the boards where well stuck down compared to the tiles on tile...
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    Bathroom setting out

    Hello everyone this is my first post I'll try not to waffle. Im in the middle of a house renovation and I'm just about to tile my bathroom. However I have a setting out problem with regard to the height. I'm using 300x 600 tiles and 3mm grout lines. If I set the tiles so they're almost...
  3. Dan

    I've sorted out the 'Find a Trader' section on all our forums

    Should be able to find these forum categories at the top of the forum homepage :) I'm hoping promoting all the forums on all the forum kinda gets more enquiries coming in. Check those out to see what you think. Find Professional Tradesmen for Free (And of course tradesmen find the work for...
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    Advice Needed on Building out Wall Depth?

    Hi all I've been asked to completely refurbish the in-laws bathroom and they've taken it on themselves to do the donkey work of removing tiles, wall coverings etc. in preparation. Anyway, the walls were tiled lower down all the way round and papered/texture coated above. When they've removed...
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    Just starting out...

    Hello I'm not totally new to this forum as I got some valuable advice on here last year re: tiling my bathroom floor. But subsequently I took a tiling course at UK Pro tiling. It was a really excellent course and covered so much and now I'm looking for my next move. Whilst I have some DIY...
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    How to get your name out to new customers

    Hi I have just started on my own tiling after 8 years with a plumbing and tiling company. Just looking for some tips really on how to get my name out to new customers ? Im in Porthmadog N.Wales
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    Out door stone fixing

    Hello folkes I have been asked to price up a job it's a external tiling job on to a concrete slab that is 10" thick laid to a small fall away from the building the slab is reenfoced. Due to door sills I be building up a thick bed approx 22mm to finish at correct hights. The stone is 600mm...
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    Saturday night wat u upto

    wats everyone upto ,
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    Set out

    Been setting out my mum's bathroom and having a bit of a mare with the focal point which is the window. If I centre the window no matter of I start with a full tile or half tile (or even a quarter tile) im left with a small cut somewhere. The best compromise is a small cut sound the window...
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    How to work out total price per square metre

    hi all. Need some help how can I work out total price per square metre. Including adhesives and grouts etc. As I have been approached by a kitchen fitter to provide a price and I need to get back to him asap. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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    Keep getting logged out

    Has something changed with the forum settings recently, as every time I change page I seem to get logged out! Was never a problem until recently.
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    Forum lay out

    What's people thoughts? Since it changed a week ago, it's not half as easy to see what's what, imo!
  13. Stevev

    how much work for pro tilers involves taking old tiles out

    Hi, Just wondering roughly what proportion of a pro tillers work is taking out old tiles and making good before refitting.....I'd envisage a high proportion of your job is on new installations done by kitchen fitters and plasters unless its a wet room.....im looking at doing the run of the mill...
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    Setting Out, What Would You Do?

    Ok, so as there has been a few threads on setting out, I'd like to add a quick one. I'm curious to know how you would tackle this. So this is it, the last task on the bookmatch project. It consists of a small winding staircase of 4 treads, but it's not without its problems. Firstly I'm...
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    Grinding Out Tiled Corners In Shower

    Hello forum My first post here Have just started tiling a shower and the corners are proving rather tricky with nothing being square Some gaps have turned out a little smaller than I wanted and I am worried I will not be able to get enough purchase on the sealant in the corners Rather than...
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    Brilliant Event For Tilers To Attend This Year. Coming? Check It Out.

    If you are "up north" in Harrogate or around then why not swing by the Tiling Show. Its the launch year and we at 365Drills (From "down south") are going to support it. Taking place 18th to 20th September in 2016 it's the ideal time and place to showcase our new boxset range. We supply the...
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    What's Selling Like Hotcakes? Check Out This Solution For Tilers.

    A solution for tilers. What's selling like hot cakes? Retailer WPA KING based in Harlow stocks the PORSADRILL box set from 365Drills. We cant get enough of them said the owner, Tony. They are selling like hot cakes. The boxes were created to fill a market demand for installers. We want...
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    Silk Purse Out Of Pigs Ear

    Hello all, I wanted to start a thread about some of the ridiculous jobs that we some times are forced into doing and how we dealt with them, hopefully you'll share some of your experiences and how you dealt with them also. I had to deal with a really poor screeding job this week. I've done all...
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    Evening Out Lipped Boards?

    Hi everyone, I have a wall to tile with 200x100 bevelled ceramic tiles (brick bond) . I'm tiling onto 12mm 'no more ply' cement tile backer board which for the most part is nice and flush, however one or two of the board have a small difference in alignment. Its no more than 1/8th inch / 3mm...
  20. Sean Kelly

    Out Of Date Grout From High End Tile Shop.

    All I needed was half an egg cup of Weber Joint pro Jasmine grout. After asking if there were any split bags - No. I then paid for a full bag. Got back to my job and started mixing it. The dry grout was very lumpy (like it was old or had been subjected to frost). I looked at the bag...

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