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Hi all In a kind of 'Payment' for all the advice i have got from here i have decided to do a build thread for my wet room, it may help someone in the future it may not but here it goes! Room size is 1.8M x 2.2M, at the end of the extension i finished building a last year. I work full time so...

Hello everyone, I don't pretend to be a professional anything... just a 'competent DIYer', always willing to listen and learn. I am patient, appreciate the importance of good planning and have an eye for detail. I am currently fitting a new bathroom and have reached the tiling stage. I want...

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Hi all, been going through the forum for a few months picking up tips as I'm a DIYer with a bathroom project coming up soon. Thought I'd introduce myself as I've got to the point where I've got specific questions and it'd be great if you could look out for them on the forum and give some...

Hi New to the forum and I have a large (to me) project to undertake. Firstly I am looking for 80 x 80 porcelain concrete effect tiles. Can anyone point me in the direction of where the trade would get these or even how to import some? I have been to the usual places and found some I like at...

Morning chaps, We've been asked to quote on a large insurance job by the homeowner and as we don't do much work direct for insurance companies I thought I'd check with you guys to see if there is anything I should be checking/putting in my terms prior to tendering. I don't want to get caught out...

Hi, I am after some advice please. I'm intending to retile the whole bathroom, floor and walls, then place the bath, sink and boxed in floating toilet on top of the tiles, rather then affixing to the floor and walls directly and just tiling what is viewable. I will then tile over the toilet...

Utilising a shower former design I saw somewhere on line, a few months back I believe, I completed this wet room a few weeks ago. It's a 1200 x600 x 10mm porcelain from Mandarin Stone. The short walls I re-fabricated the 1200's down to 600's so that I could keep the bond with the floor...

Hi Guys, Planning to re do my wet room. Original wet room was built as follows: Impey aquadec Aquapanel on walls Marine ply on floor all the edges were sealed with the impey joint tape. Forgot to roll out the tanking membrane. Thankfully not had a leak yet due to my incompetence. New...

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Last week I posted the question of ;which way to lay plank effect tiles ! My dilemma was that was I to run an expansion joint across room and thru my random tile joints directly over a break in sub concrete floor where a previous extension had been made .. I thought the break through the tile...

Hi , I need a Tiler for a job in Gatwick Airport , good experience with large format stuff , please reply asap if you are interested , Cheers

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After a couple of months, week here week there I've finally got finished on Phase 1 of the project I've been working on. When I got there the walls were all over the place, even though they were flat and plumb according to the builder. Had to strip all boards and redo stud work. Walls tiles...

I have a colleague at work who knows that I want to leave my desk job to pursue tiling. So he has allowed me to use him as a guinea pig this weekend. My payment....... Chinese and an unlimited supply of coffee and bacon butties. I will be doing his bathroom floor. but the shape of it...

Hi, I am new to the site and have started refurbishing my bathroom. I have only started ripping the old one out and have posted some pics of the job so far. there's pics of how it was previously also. I have done a bit of tiling before (my kitchen floor, splashback, my mums hall floor and...

......so a few weeks before Christmas @GaryTheTiler invited me to embark on a little project with him. All I really new initially was that it was a job in Hampstead North London, Gary met me at the tube station and drove the rest of the way. Wasn't far actually, about 500m haha but it is up a...

Hey guys! After tiling my bathroom and ensuite last year which would not have been possible without the fantastic advice and knowledge on this website I'm now planning to tile our back porch! It's small less than 2 metres square and is currently vinyl tiles (ffs!) I bought some 330mm ceramics...

Hi all I have only been involved in supplying tiles on commercial jobs for about a year now. These jobs always have project prices for the tiles so everyone knows the cost of them and your profit margin when quoting. I have always added my margin onto the total cost of the tiles (including...

Hi all I'm tiling my second kitchen, and just wanted to check in with you all that I'm doing it right. At my wife's insistence, we are having exactly the same tiles as we had in the last kitchen but as the surfaces I'm tiling on to are different this time, I want to make sure my approach is...