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    Travertine and Plasterboard query.

    Hi, just joined, hello everyone! I would like some advice if possible please. I am a bathroom fitter and have a travertine job to do. The walls are 12.5mm unskimmed plasterboard screwed to 400mm centres timber with 1 noggin half way up the wall. Moisture resistant board is in the shower area...
    • davebathroom
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    • aus plasterboard query travertine usa
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Plaster query

    Just on with a bathroom at the moment. Removed all the tiles that came of really easily. And the plaster underneath is grey. I've never seen this before. I'm guessing its fine to tile once preped correctly.
    • Ollie02948
    • Thread
    • aus plaster query usa
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Micromax 2 query?

    Good Evening All. Wondering if anybody has any thoughts on the Bal micromax 2. As have tiled a floor and used the micromax 2 for the first time and have noticed a few weeks on some hairline cracks have appeared. The floor is chipboard then overboarded with 15mm ply around a year ago.(not...
  5. R

    Pricing query

    Hello. just been to look at a job where the customer doesn't a re grout they just want the grout lines cleaned up and basically brought back to life with colour seal. Am I on the right track in thinking that to charge a day rate plus materials is the way to go or would you do it differently...
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    Substrate query

    Hi all, I've been sent through this photo from a job I'm going to look at next week. I've been told that the flooring in the photo which used to have carpet on it is concrete. Before I go and look has anyone seen a substrate like this before. also what could the black on the floor be, could it...
  7. W

    Plasterboard query

    Hi, Looking to fit 600x300 porcelain tiles to a plasterboard wall. Have removed emulsion from walls and was going to fix with mapei keraflex S1. Conflicting advice floating about whether to score the walls or not to give the adhesive a key or does this affect the strength of the pasterboard...
    • wyse85
    • Thread
    • aus plasterboard query usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Wet room - Dukkaboard query

    Hi All, While in at the merchants today picking up materials fro a couple of jobs I came across Dukkaboard shower trays and sheets. Very light in comparison to hardie and can also act to strengthen floors without the need to ply then overboard with cement board. I am contemplating using it on...
  10. R

    Suspended floor with wet UFH query.

    Been to see a job tonight, 2 1st floor bathrooms tiled by a builder in a barn conversion. Needless to say its a poor job and they want them re-doing properly. They've already had a 'tiler' in (off one of them ratings sites) to repair cracked grout and of course its cracking again. It looks like...
    • Rookery
    • Thread
    • aus floor floor tiling query suspended ufh usa wet wet ufh
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Another sub-floor query

    Hi, seen and read quite a few posts in relation to installing a proper sub-floor for when tiling an upstairs bathroom. My bathroom's sized about 2.5 x 1.5m. The flooring is made up of 100mm wide x 20mm thick tongue and groove floorboards (ex council home built in the 70s). The joists below...
    • Phillay
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    • aus floor floor tiling query usa
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Ply subfloor query

    I am currently quoting on a level access wet room on the ground floor of a property. The floor is currently concrete. Although another company has quoted to install a ply subfloor, would that mean they are planning on lifting the concrete?
    • Ollie02948
    • Thread
    • aus floor floor tiling ply query subfloor usa
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Ditra matting query

    HELP I had a new tiled floor put down in February and have just discovered a pipe has been leaking behind one of my kitchen units. The floor is concrete and the tiler put detra matting down before putting the tiles down. The Insurance Company want to rip the whole lot up but I am wonderingif...
    • water baby
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    • aus ditra ditra matting matting query usa
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Substrate query

    Hi all, I'm planning to prepare my consevatory floor for tiling. the previous owner had laid decking down over joists. I don't have enough hight just to overboard these (with the UPVC doors opening into the room) so I was planning to remove the decking and board the joists. I've been reading a...
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    Hello to all and help with query

    Hello Everyone. Just joined the Forum as trying to understand what to do about the floor in our newly converted bungalow. We will be having wet underfloor heating in our kitchen and conservatory - a large area of approx 100sq m. We want to put down honed and filled travertine on the floor but...
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    Underfloor Heating Query

    I have underfloor heating overlain with ceramic floor tiles in the kitchen. I need to replace the entire floor as a number of the tiles are cracked. Should I remove the current tiles first or can I tile over? I am worried about loss of heat from teh underfloor heating heating through two layers...
    • Guffles
    • Thread
    • aus floor floor tiling heating query ufh underfloor underfloor heating usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Pricing query

    I'v just been asked to price a brand New dogs kennels. The layout is one big hallway, with 16 kennels, a office, and a store cupbard, coming of it. The job is 127msq 600x400 porcelain floor tiles, 176 tiles/ 47msq for skirting, 8msq ceramic wall tlies. All the grout is to be epoxy. Just done...
  21. S

    Trowel Size / Adhesive Depth Query

    Hi All I am planning on boarding my bathroom with Marmox boards prior to tiling (mechanically fixed and bedded), the wall tiles are glazed ceramic measuring 25cm x 38cm x 6mm and the floor tiles are 33cm x 33cm x 6mm. Am I ok in using an 8mm trowel for wall tiles? Also trying to work out final...
    • siremastimus
    • Thread
    • adhesive aus depth query size tile adhesive tiling trowel trowel usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Hi, Limestone query East Anglia

    Did a search for cracks in limestone floor and ended up here. Read all of Pollybrampton's and she has many of my difficulties. Bought a wreck of a house (grade 11 listed 200 year old terraced)and had a complete renovation, back to the plaster and lathe completely stripped. It was going to be...
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    Wedi Tilebacker Board Query

    Hi, I am looking to install a Wedi Fundo shower tray by cutting out the chipboard and then securing 6mm ply on the joists (I will strengthen by adding more joists) followed by the tray. By fitting the tray on the joists + ply I don't have such an issue with levelling the rest of the bathroom...
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    Expansion joint query

    I'm doing a floor tomorrow, I have got to include a 1.5m expansion joint where a small concrete section joins the main t&g floor, the problem is that if i put the tiles straight at the base units opposite, the the expansion joint will over lap the gap by about 3cm at one end, would I get away...
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    Accountant query

    Apologies if this is too much off topic .. but .. I am self employed and have an accountant for the next payout then going to do all online. She insiists that I give her all my personal account statements for 2010 - 2011. All my business money goes through my business account and I only transfer...
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