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    problems with sealer

    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.
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    Problems with Photos

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

    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...
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    problems with 600x600

    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...
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    Black Grout problems

    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.
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    porcelain tile cutting problems

    Hi guys - I need some help... I've been a tiler for 15 years and I've never run across this problem before, I am installing 300 x 600 porcelain tiles and I simply can not cut them without them shattering, splintering or chipping. I started off using my rubi tx 900 because most cuts are simple...
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    Advice about a tile installation 600 x300 problems, help what do I do next?

    Hi I'm new to this forum. Today our bathroom tiling was completed by our tiler all grouted etc, basically today I questioned the workmanship as I pointed out some raised edges in the shower area, I was told by our tiler that this was due to the tile being bent???, I bit my lip & I didn't say...
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    toning problems with colourstuk coloured grout.

    Hi Everyone. Could anyone confirm if they have had any toning issues when using porcelanosa colourstuk grout. we have tiled 4 full houses and the last houses grout has dry light and dark. porcelanosa have tried to say we dusted of to early in which we dusted off 24 hrs to 36 re instructions on...
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    Underfloor heating problems!!

    Hi All, Looking for your opinions on this.... Started a job today, well tried to! Job details: 64 m2, tiles size- 1200x20 (wood effect) porcelain, underfloor heating (wet system - polypipe). Ok, I started this job today, got there to find that the plumbers that installed the heating system...
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    British Ceramic Tile Problems

    I have been to see another tilers customer tonight regarding "tile staining". On arrival I met a lovely woman who couldn't praise her tiler enough. I was shown the area in question, a small wet room tiled in 8"x8" British Ceramic Tile Matt White Finish. Nice job until the client sprayed the...
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    Problems with Johnsons tiles

    Anybody else having quality issues with Johnsons tiles?, Matching wall/floor tiles being different colours, Missing glaze,badly glazed.....
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    Oh Oh Black Limstone problems

    Hi Guys. Myself and my partner live in Ilkley, West Yorkshire and wanted to say how great this forum is. We have recently bought and now laid some black limestone flags in our garden. After looking for advise on how to lay these flags on the net we found really helpful advice from threads in...
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    Setting out brick bond - narrow window pier causing problems

    I am brick bonding 250mm (length) x 200mm (height) ceramic tiles. I am trying to figure out how to layout the wall shown in pic below, the larger wall which is where the bath is located (to the left of the pic) has a near perfect pattern (i.e ending in either a full tile or half tile). If I...
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    multiple problems with bathroom subfloor

    Hi there, long time reader, first time poster! Im having a nightmare with my bathroom renvolation. I have gutted the room down to the floor joists. the old floor was 22mm chipboard which was very badly water damaged. The floor joists are 2" by 5 1/2" and span just over 2400mm. they are at...
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    Decoupling matt problems

    has any one had problems with any of the decoupling matt systems after they have laid them? be interesting to find out peoples veiws ?
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    problems tiling over melamine

    Help. I tiled some mosaic tiles on to a melamine surface, having first sanded down the melamine for a good grip, and using a pre mixed tile & grout adhesive. After 12 hours nothing has set or hardened. Any advice would be really appreciated. Thanks
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    Mapei p9 problems

    Hi guys, hope everybody is doing good, just wanted to run this past you to see if anyone else has had any similar problems. Basically I've started subbing for the local top supplier Channel Islands Ceramics, great number this, get to do lovely jobs and they pay well, plus there is a bit of...
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    problems with recently laid floor, tiles cracking or working loose

    Hi All I need some advice. We have recently had a large kitchen extension built which involved the knocking though of two rooms and a large new section. Total area is 45m square. The new section has a concrete block and beam floor. In one of the original rooms the existing screed floor was dug...
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    Grout residue problems

    Hi I am tiling some ceramic tiles in my bathroom which is going well. However now that I am grouting I tried doing too big an area which meant that some of the grout has dried onto the tiles in small patches. I am having trouble removing this excess grout and have resulted in scraping...
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    Weight limit problems again !

    Last night I got a call asking me to tile an Ensuite and as the chat progressed I found out that the room was on paramount boards that had previously been tiled. When the old tiles ( which I tiled some years ago) were removed it obviously damaged teh walls. So it was patched and re skimmed. In...

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