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  1. AliGage

    Preparation Floor prep after flood

    A little help guys. I've been asked to price 71sqm of limestone flooring. My issue is this, The property unfortunately flooded throughout. Now although I'm told it's all dry now I'm reluctant to tile direct to the screed/slab. What I need is answer regarding the use of ditra in this scenario...
  2. E

    UK Wall prep for large format porcelain

    What would you guys do with the walls to prep for fitting 1200mm x 600mm Onice Verde (Porcelain) tiles. In places the plaster is loose so obviously i'll take that off, but would you hack back to brick and the use backer board or.....
  3. S

    Wall and floor prep - bathroom remodel

    Hello all, After years of abuse, the bathroom needed an overhaul from top to bottom. Out came the bath, sink and toilet. Corner bath still upside down in back garden....haven't got round to cutting it in quarters yet to take to the dump. Toilet was never fixed to the floor 😆 Floor tiles...
  4. A

    Bath Shower wall prep after tiles fell off

    My bathroom was tiled 5 years ago with 60x30 tiles which became loose and came clean off with a little wiggle. The installation was prior to when I moved in. The walls look sound and flat and seemed to have been newly plastered before the tiling was done. My question is what do I need to seal...
  5. J

    Is This A Bad Bathroom Tiling Job: Suspect Prep + Toilet Now Slopes

    Recently had a building company replace a leaking wet room floor, located on the 1st floor of a 1930's built terrace house. The tiles are large format porcelain tiles sitting on a Ditra Matt supported by 18" plywood. The rusty trowel that he left before the bank holiday w/e gave me some...
  6. F

    Prep advice on block and beam floor

    Hi, after some advice, doing some renovations at a house we’ve just moved into. Knocked kitchen/diner into 1 room, took the tiles up from the existing kitchen and there appears to be a hump in the concrete screed, it’s a block and beam floor, put level on the highest point and there’s 6mm gap...
  7. R

    What prep would you do here?

    Got a kitchen floor to do and it consists of a concrete floor which then meets a timber floor. It also meets another area of concrete floor which has been poured at a later date to the original floor. Whole floor needs self levelling as is up and down and old adhesive which is stuck really well...
  8. S

    What prep to do, cut plaster out?

    Hello everyone, Thank you for allowing me to join the forum. I'm replacing the toilet hand basin and needed to remove some old tiles because the size of the new basin didn't match up to the position of the old tiles. I have removed the old tiles but there is damage to the plaster wall...
  9. K

    Painted plaster on kitchen splashback

    I am about to take on a kitchen backsplash with a standard metro tile and am looking for some advice. The surface is painted plaster, paint in good condition. Should the plaster be scored, sanded and then primed before tiling? Just keeping myself right as i have seen people with different...
  10. T

    Dijon Limestone - fixing & prep advice please

    After some advice please..... We have approx. 50sq m of Dijon limestone 600 x 90 x15mm and also 50 sqm of porcelain wood effect 1200 x 200 x 10mm to lay. This is going onto a 55mm Cemfloor liquid screed (with wet UFH) that was put down about a year ago so should be dry! Really after some...
  11. H

    Floor and wall prep - sense check please?

    Hi all, Just about to get going on bathroom reno and would very much appreciate if you could sense check my prep, please. Plan is: Walls Will be going back to brick > Prime with Mapei Primer G > 6mm notched bed of Larsen Pro Flexible FiberFlex for 6mm Hardiebacker, screwed with 9 x 6x60mm...
  12. S

    Anhydrite screed prep

    A simple question I'm struggling with. Up front, it's a self build - my 4th, so done a fair bit but 1st time using anhydrite. Screed down for 4 years+. Prepping for ditra. Started sanding with 40 grit using 6"festool orbital to remove laitance - solid - (so may have to use diff tool). Issue I...
  13. N

    Anhydrite screed prep

    Hi guys technical question hoping maybe you have an answer as I have never came across this before we have an anhydrite screed floor we sanded it hoovered then sealed twice came In Today and the sealer looks like it’s peeling in certain areas have u ever had this the floor is completely dry...
  14. S

    Floor prep - hardi vs jacko

    Im soon to start overboarding my floor. (22mm chipboard tng) in prep for tiling. The floor is solid with no bounce. Having just used jackoboard on the walls and found it so quick and easy to work with im wondering can it be used asan alternative to hardibacker when it comes to overboarding the...
  15. P

    Preferred method of prep for chip board?

    Hi there, Don't know whether it's just a matter of personal preference but what's the best method of prepping a chipboard floor? i.e. 6mm cement boards, glued and screwed or Ditra mat? Cheers.
  16. R

    Prep on walls masonry, stud, moistureboard and skimmed plaster

    I need help on what prep I need to do. I have read on the forums here and I seem to be going round in circles. I have a small bathroom which is stripped back to the following. wall 1 - masonry red brick wall 2 - masonry red brick wall 3 - part stud wall with top 1/4 moistureboard attached...
  17. B

    sub floor prep

    Hi All First post long storey short had arranged for someone to re model my bathroom on the 1st floor with a wet room but disaster hit on day 3 after coming back from work i found a large amount of problems floor replaced with loft board and screwed down with plaster board screws waste went...
  18. macten

    So much prep was a pain on this bathroom

    My favourite customers of over 8 years have moved house and this is the first of 5 bathrooms/ensuites ending with 130m2 floor. Original bathroom looked great at first look but on closer inspection there were a few red flags. Tiles came off the walls in seconds with no damage to substrate as...
  19. P

    Floor prep question

    Hi everyone, I'm pricing a job to tile a bathroom floor with UFH. It's a suspended floor that has been over-boarded with ply and has a thick, hard shiny vinyl on top. Everything is well fix down and I'd rather not remove it all if possible as it goes under furniture that they don't want to...
  20. S

    Shower room floor prep

    Currently removed the wall and floor tiles and shower tray from the shower room im renovating. The floor boards look okay but have quite a few holes... Plus one more out of view. Someone on another thread mentioned overboarding with a tile backer but im wondering if I should replace the lot...
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