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    Porcelain tiles on top of 90 day old screed

    Hi After some advice, I am a DIY tiler and going to be tiling our kitchen extension floor with porcelain tiles ( have tiled before so confident with tiling). We had the screed laid (sand/cement @ 75mm) about 90 days ago, I’m confident it dried and has no cracking anywhere and level. The screed...
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    Porcelian Tile - Stain Unknown

    Hi, I just got handed my home from the builder and the matte porcelain tiles have stains on them. There are two types on stain. One is yellow/orange which I think is rust and the other is grey. Does anyone know what this grey stain is? I tried mopping and scrubbing and its not coming off. Any...
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    Porcelian patio & movement joints

    Hello All, I doubt anyone remembers me on here but I received a lot of helpful advice on an internal project so have returned. I've now taken on a lockdown project which I'm part way through preparing the substrate for a large porcelain patio that I'm intending on laying myself - yikes. WIP...
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    Victorian porcelian tiles to be sealed/enhanced

    Can colour enhancer be used on victorian porcelian tiles? and which is a good one to use?
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    Cutting 20mm Porcelian

    Hi I have recently took on a big patio area floor job to be tiled in 20mm thick porcelian and was just wondering if anyone had any tips for cutting these monsters. I have a sigma 3p3m and rubi tx cutters that supposedly cut upto 20mm thick but don't they are going to cut these. Any help would be...
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    glazed porcelian floor tike which feels like sandpaper

    hi had to fix some tiles today from tile store and they were a glazed porcelian which were really rough they were black with a glitter like affect. a nightmare to cut and even worse to grout spent 3 hours cleaning the floor after grouting and i cant get all the haze off anyone one got any good...
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    porcelian tiles

    A friend of a friend had some porcelain tiles in a kitchen fitted. 20m2 and was quoted £55 m2 to fix only.(not sure at the moment if mats were supplied) In my eyes i feel that was Extremely high. Any feed back would be appreciated. Job has already been completed. Been asked to have a look at the...
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    Hallo - a B&Q porcelian worrier!

    Hallo, I am David, I am a DIYer, have been doing it for years- done lots of tiling with normal ceramic tiles. I have bought B&Q porcelain tiles, hadn't seen all the bad press before and they don't take them back without a receipt! I was going fixthem myself but too many projects so need to get...
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    Polished Porcelian marked by Masking tape

    Hi all, Went to have a look at a job tonight, Customer has had 24m2 of black polished Porcelain (NOT the B & Q ones tho) floor tiles on their kitchen floor, the problem the customer has is marks around every tile caused by the Tiler using 50mm masking tape, I’ve never heard of doing it...
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    sealing polished porcelian

    hi all, had a job to do with polished black por,was not sure if they where sealed,so i tested half a tile with some sealer,the next morning the side that had seal looked greasy and cloudy,and would not rub clean.do you guys think that this was sealed already,as when i cleaned up with a sealer...
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    Porcelian Tiling on Ceramic Tiles

    I am trying to find out if I can tile 400x400 porcelian tiles on top of ceramic tiles in a shower area using a cement base adheisive. I already tiled one side using a tub of ordinary adhesive and then read one of these forums which said dont do it they wont stick which was very good advice as...
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    Dull grout haze, pitted into dark Porcelian tile

    Made a big mistake last week, grouted 25m2 of porcelain (matt finish i think) with Bal superflex grey grout without sealing it first. Cleaned it down well but the grout has grabbed into the texture of the tile and will not come out however hard i scrub. There is almost a dull effect to the tiles...
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    Advice on cutting 600x600 polished porcelian

    im laying porcelain down in pretty much the whole of a 2 bedroom flat meaning 2 bedrooms, hallway and living/kitchen. Now what would the experienced tilers advice me on using as i was thinking of getting a wet cutter ( Erbauer ERB180C ) from screwfix for 49.00. thing is the tiles are 600x600...
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    textured porcelian

    hi guys , got a bathroom to do with a ivory tex porc tile, would you suggest sealing this tile prior to setting ,or set then seal , or not seal ,i have used the aqua mix high gloss sealer in the past to good effect, or could i just use a penetrating sealer such as the aqua mix ultra-solv, any...
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    Sealing presealed polish porcelian? advase needed

    Hi everyone, Does it need to be sealed Presealed polish porcelian? In tile shop they gave me sealer and said it will be better to seal them(even it is presealed). I went for advice to another tile shop and they said i only make worse for tiles. So what do You think? Thanks For Your Help.
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    stains on polished porcelian tiles

    Hi, I recently layed black polished porcelian tiles. After laying them I washed the tiles with hot water to clean the dirt up etc.. As I was about to seal them before grouting. I then noticed stains on the tiles which cannot be removed as it looks like the stain is coming through the tile...

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