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    Porcelain floor tiles

    Hi I have just finished my kitchen and the floor is the next project, I have layed 18mm ply over the orginal floor boards and bought the tiles (porcelain floor tiles), in my haste I picked up a couple of tubs of adhesive and grout for wooden floors, it wasnt until I got home and read the tub and...
    • lewisloo
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    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
  2. S

    Cleaning stains from grey porcelain floor tiles

    My builder has just laid some black grey tiles in my bathroom, they are almost a slate effect the make is unicom starker, porcelain tiles. When the builder left I went to clean the floor, there is a large mark across the tiles near the door as if something has been spilt on them (?dirty water...
    • sarah_louise_b
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  3. Z

    What is the best adhesive for porcelain floor tiles

    Hello all this is my first posting. Some advice please. I am a complete novice at tiling and have a small job to do at home. Entrance hall to be tiled 1.8m x 1.2m - have the tiles already (porcelain). the floor is concrete? has a few cracks on the the surface which is red in colour, cannot...
    • zaisan
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    B&Q Loft Coal Porcelain Floor Tiles 600x600

    hi, i have just had these tiles laid in my living room and kitchen and cannot get the smokey grout stains off after mopping with dettol about 6 times, if anything its getting worse, i have had a look on the website and it doesnt give any suggestions on what to do to remove this. i know there...
    • andrewperry
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  6. M

    Cracked porcelain floor tile in a wet room

    Hi, I wonder if anyone could give me some advice. We have recently had a wet room fitted. Two months after the installation, we noticed that a tile had cracked (not in the actual showering area, but immediately adjacent to it). The tiler insists that we must have dropped something on the...
    • maggiemay
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  7. M

    my white polished porcelain floor tiles

    i have recently purchased white polished porcelain tiles for the floor of my kitchen and hallway. the salesman at the tile shop advised me to degrease the tiles first as they have a waxy coat which needs to be removed using a special degreasing liquid. the tiles then would have to be sealed...
    • mrstoneman
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  9. S

    Porcelain floor tiles 600x600

    I have recently laid (10 days ago) 20sqm of 600x600 polished porcelain floor tiles from B&Q using their Cerafix powdered floor tile adhesive for concrete floors. I now realise that the adesive may not have been the most appropriate type to use for porcelain and I am worried that it will fail at...
    • Shroptile
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  10. P

    best adhesive for polished porcelain floor tile?

    hello all, first post. need a bit of advice regarding installation of untreated polished porcelain 800x800mm floor tile 1. using LTP MPG sealer -i will b sealing them b4 and after grouting but wondering whether it would benefit me to seal them b4 cutting? 2. using 5mm spacers? 3...
    • paulstani
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    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  11. R

    Porcelain floor tiles outside?....

    Hi, We've tiled our hall in what the pack says are "fine glazed porcelain tiles". The tiler commented they were v good quality "....the type laid in shopping arcades, so hard wearing they should look the same 20 years from now...". The tiles are stone effect and we have them with silver/grey...
    • rawdon51
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    Obvious scratches on new porcelain floor -what to do?

    Hi, I'm hoping for a bit of advice here. Yesterday my shiney new grey porcelain floor tiles were laid onto a devimat heating system ( on foam onto concrete). I suspect that the tiler had grit or a bit of tile chip on his knee pad as there are several deep scratches down to the white porcelain...
    • Unregistered
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  14. P

    Removing grout residue on porcelain floor tiles

    Hi Just had my kitchen floor tiled with porcelain tiles a couple of days ago and noticed that there is a white chalky powder left on the tiles in places, which i assume is the grout residue. Despite scrubbing and mopping like mad, this powder 'disappears' when wet but it reappears when the...
    • psychopomp1
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    • Replies: 5
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  15. aflemi

    sealing rough porcelain floor tiles

    I have sandstone colour Wickes Porcelain multi-sized floor tiles just laid on bal spf adhesive. It's a 2nd bathroom, little traffic. I don't think it's essential to seal them but am slightly concerned that the grout will be caught up in the texture of the tile face and be hard to remove, if I...
    • aflemi
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    Porcelain Floor Tiles

    I want to tile my extension - approx 70sqm. I've searched for 600mm porecelain floor tiles (cream) and I'm looking for the most competitive supplier - can you guys advise.help ?
    • GLEBROCQ
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  18. M

    What adhesive for porcelain floor tiles?

    I am laying 10sq/m of porcelain floor tiles onto 9mm wbp in a hallway which has normal to high domestic wear. Any suggestions as to the best adhesive I should use please?
    • MIKEATIC
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  19. W

    sealing porcelain floor tiles

    good evening gentlemen. what i would like to know,do you gentlemen seal tiles b4 laying or once you have laid them,also what products do you use to seal.The tiles i ill be sealing are those highly polished ones they are very light in colour and from the test i did they stain fairly easy...
    • windy
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    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
  21. M

    600 x 300 porcelain floor tiles that bend

    Hi, I am new to the forum and would really welcome some help. I have been tiling as part of my general refurbishment business for twenty years and have never had any problems to date with tiling. However I have just finished a bathroom floor in London using 600 x 300 porcelain tiles with...
    • marcus
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    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
  22. M

    porcelain floor without grout gap????

    Hi I gather there is a recomended 3mm bs gap. However I have these polished floor tiles I wish to lay without a grout gap,is this recomended or are there implications with expansion etc. Thanks for reading hope you can help????
    • mingualez
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  23. W

    600 x 600 porcelain floor

    Hope you can help me with this one. I bought a new house 2 years ago and had a 600 x 600mm porcelain floor installed, tile approx 10mm thick, total coverage 25m2. All was fine up untill about six months ago when i noticed movement in the tiles when anyone stepped on them. The grout joint...
    • w.i.a.tile
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    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  25. U

    porcelain floor tiles on wall

    We have stuck some porcelain floor tiles 450 x 450 to the bathroom wall with Bal White Star. Since been told that we shd have used Bal spf but the White Star seems to be holding. They are on part plaster stud, part aquapanel and part solid plastered wall. Do we need to remove them and start...
    • Unregistered
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    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
  26. D

    HELP Porcelain Floor Tiles

    Hi folks im in need of some help! Just layed a procelain floor with wicks tiles there not polished, all was well but as the tiles have dryed there is now a white haze over the floor and im not sure whats caused it or how to get rid of it. I used bal grout. I did however use during my clean...
    • DavieA
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    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
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