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I want the trade’s advice as to what I should do? It’s a bit long but it is condensed My wife and I had been looking for kitchen tiles for our new extension and saw just what we wanted at the Grand Design exhibition in April so we bought what we needed, which was 600x400 textured (anti-slip)...

I am tiling a shower surround (walls) in my basement and have installed the cement board and thought I was ready to go... wrong. It looks like the studs behind the board are a little out of alignment and this is causing some big dips. If I hold a 4' level against the back wall, the left had...

Hi all, I am a newbie and diyer. We are retiling the bathroom in our new house but are having some problems with the glass mosaic wall tiles we have. Basically, the mosaics are going to create a vertical stripe approx 20cm wide and also a splashback. My brother in law is doing the tiling, he...

I have used bal micromax floor and wall grout which was given to me by tops tiles however it looks grey not white and it is very sandy in texture which looks terrible has anyone ekes had this problem

Hi Guys and dolls, went to look at a large floor for a customer today and looking for some feedback/thoughts...it seems to be quite a strange construction as floors go, its a new extension with heating pipes installed ,then ply, not sure how thick, then cement board , then more ply,(15mm)...

Hi there Dan here i just posted in the guest area regarding my newly laid replica classical flagstones supplied by classical flagstones.co.uk After only 3 months of use have worn back to the aggregate underneath the glaze and i was wondering if anyone else has had the same problems The...

hi there has anyone had problems with classical flagstones.co.uk in particular there replica classical flagstones as mine have worn away back to the aggregate after only 3 months since being installed

I got a new computer at the begining of last year but have not wanted to use it as I was not keen on the set up. My old computer is knackered so I have set up the new one today. Im having issues setting up my business email with the windows live mail software that is built into windows 7. Has...

Hi Went to see a job the other day, 60m2 timber floor which has been tiled about 1 yr ago . In areas there is cracks in grout etc which I put down to movement , it's an extension and ah told me she's had the builders back To repair areas that were bad tiles popped cracking etc. I lifted...

hi to all, I wonder if anyone can help me out here. I'm in Norway on holiday but also tileing my sisters bathroom walls. Tiles went on fine but the grouting has been a nightmare. I'm by no means an expert but I've tiled for the last year or so and mixed the grout to the same consistency as I...

just been to the hospital today to have a steriod injection in my left knee, and yes it did hurt :bigcry: its been playing up since xmas, after looking at the xrays doc recconds i'll be needing a new knee in about 10 years time...:mad2: could be the first bionic tiler....:lol: anyone ele's...

Hi everyone, i need some help asap!! I just finished tiling a slate floor yesterday, customer was very happy, I got paid and went home. Customer rang this morning to see if I could call to take a look at the floor as he was concerned about the finish, basically I applied the last coat of...

I am having a problem with my underfloor heating cable in my bathroom. The cable was installed at about 5cm apart on top of a 6mm tile backer board. About 8-10 mill of SLC was then poured over the top before a 10mm slate tile floor was fitted over the top. According to the thermastatic floor...

I need a tiler to finish laying some calibrated brazilian black slate (9-11 mm thickness). Unfortunately I cannot finish the job due to back problems (I've only layed 3 tiles actually) I've got the slate + adhesive, but not cleaner/sealer or grout. Tiles need to be layed to a spirit level (6mm...

Hi. I wrote for advice last year after we had black limestone laid in the garden. We cleaned the stone and used a brush to cover with LTP stone oil. Although we did it sparingly, we now realise it was not sparlingly enough. we have jet washed it all off which was hard going. At the same time we...

Sealed my floor today with this, My Daft Dog then got into the my shower room & scratched the floor, Buffed out the scratches but now left with 3 dull spots on my tiles, What is my best product for removing the sealer? was thinking about Grimex.

I cant upload photos onto any of the threads now, they say the jpeg is too large. Anyone else having trouble?

Hi all Late last year we had our en suite refurbished. As part of that we had a new shower enclosure fitted. The siliconing around the shower I did myself. I siliconed all the outside and also the inside uprights only, not the bottom of the frame inside. The first time the shower was used...

hi there fellow tilers i tiled the ground floor of a house with 600x600 polished porcelin tiles.the screed was sand cement with underfloor heating the floor was primed and tiled with nanolight white with no expanshion joints the job was done 3years ago .now for the problem.the tiles are starting...

I have laid grey Porcelain tiles and have used black Unibond grout. I now have a grey residue that looks like a coating of grey dust on all the grout. This is despite cleaning several times. When the grout is wet it is perfectly black. How can i remove this residue and get the black grout finish.