removing

Hello everyone ,I am a diy tiler and just joined the forum as i will be doing a lot of tiling with a new project /old house in hand . I want to turn one of the upstairs bedrooms into a bathroom in our old cottage. There are standard pine floorboards in every room including this one at the...

Hi Guys, Ive got a slight issue..... trying to remove 10mm thick tiles from a plasterboard wall in a bathroom. since the wall would get badly damaged trying to chisel/scrape the tiles off. Ordinarily id just cut the plasterboard out, tiles included and replace the plasterboard then re tile...

The grout in my shower cabin had crumbled in some places, so genius me decided to remove all the grout and regrout everything.. why not - finally would put to use my oscillating tool. After several hours, I was almost done, but I hadn't realized what an utter mess I've made - the whole bathroom...

I grouted the tile at the top of wall and ceiling and now I need to paint. What is the best way to cover up the grout on the ceiling?

Hi, In the space of a couple of weeks my beautiful gray/ block stone bathroom tiles on the floor of the shower have developed white spotty patches in various locations. What are these marks ? Apparently we have soft water and thus it’s unlikely to be calcium or hard water stains. I did change...

I have recently moved into a house with a tiled kitchen floor and left some plant pots on cardboard on it. This got damp and has caused some brown rings and patches on the tiles where it looks like the colour and surface has been taken off. The rest of the flooring has a shiny coating on it. I...

Hi chaps, I’m mid way through my first DIY tiling, taking 3 half tiled walls above a bath to full tile, then adding a shower. I stripped the paint off of the plasterboard where I wanted to add tiles, then primed it using Mapei plaster primer. Unfortunately despite using masking tape to mask...

Well it was so boring with the quarantine that I thought I would remove the awful tiles from my mantlepiece. They are coming off easily and not too messy. Now there is all this white layer (glue? mastic?) a comb was dragged through. How will I remove that while layer the tiles were stuck to...

Hi folks, I have a problem I'm desperately hoping someone can help with. I laid a tumbled limestone floor in a kitchen 2 weeks ago and when I applied the LTP Mattstone sealer that the tile supplier recommended, it turned the tiles from light grey, to more of a brown colour which is exactly...

Good morning all, I have been sold the wrong product to seal back limestone (Thompsons patio and block paving sealer - wet look). I took the chaps word for it and stupidly just started sealing! It was not until this year when I couldn’t work out why my patio looked so crap that I read the tin...

I am having trouble removing hard water stains/limescale on some old tiles, any tips or products to use Thanks

Hi All, I'm hoping to remove floor tiles and tile our kitchen (Just under 8sqm) in the next few weeks. The existing tiles are around 15 years old installed on a concrete floor which was levelled prior to tiling. They have held up fine over the years,no cracks etc but noticed some of the tiles...

Hi All, Weve had one of our contractors install some small hexagon mosaics recently and have just had an angry phone call about the condition of the grout. Not sure of the cause, but this is what it looks like - pretty shocking. The gappy patch in the middle is probably the worst of it...

I had a very poor tiling job done in the summer by a general builder and I've got a professional tiler in at the moment. The tiles came up very easily but there's and anti-crack mat underneath. We've found a lot of water under this mat, so we want to lift it and let the screed dry properly. It...

Hello all! So, ive done a few tiling jobs with my old man before, but lets say that his methods probably are not the right ones! Now ive just bought my first home and am sorting the bathroom and kitchen and want them done right. Bathroom is currently a council installed wetroom, its all...

Can anybody please help, we are removing the tiles from our kitchen wall and cannot remove the tile adhesive! We are trying to chip away at it, it’s quite thick but just won’t budge, we want to paint it afterwards. can anybody recommend something to remove thick tile adhesive. Thank you!

@Paul..... I recently tiled a hallway with Ledbury Slate Grey tiles from W&F and i can't for the life of me get rid of the transit wax from them, i've used the trusty glass scraper and even that doesn't get rid of it, there is still a shine on the matt finish where it was in certain lights. You...

hi all, It’s been a while!! I’ve now moved up to Leeds so am rebuilding my plumbing/heating business. Anyway.. I’m quoting for a job to fit a shower which will mean stripping the partially tiled walls to retile them from bath to ceiling. In my head I’ll have to remove the bath and...

Basically I have a tiled floor in a toilet with skirting in place, as we were not sure if we were going to tile the walls or just wallpaper. Now decided to tile the walls so I will remove the skirting, I just wanted to know how to get the tile to the correct thickness so it sits where the...

hi all. I have tried to see if there’s a thread on this already. Apologies if there is. I’m buying a new build house that unfortunately already has kitchen and downstairs toilet tiles chosen. They’re already down And I really dislike them. So I’m hoping to remove them and the thinset and start...