The exterior of my house is covered with smooth ceramic tiles, approx 2"x6" each. I'd like to render over these to provide a textured finish but I'm not sure how to do it. The local practice seems to be to plaster over the tiles before painting on a textured finish, but this seems a bit labour...
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I've removed the tiles from my bathroom and had to cut out some largish patches of blown render / plaster underneath them. I was intending to plaster over these patches, so I prepeared the wall by cleaning them and priming with a 5:1 PVA solutiuon. Since then I've decided BAL quickset...
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I know paddle mixers are regularly asked about and after using drills for a while i've used a couple of different paddle mixers for the last few years, i'm soon going to be rendering my own extension and i'm looking for a mixer that will cope with sand and cement render is it just a case of a...
Hi Folks,
I have a bricked up doorway in a bathroom that I want to eventually tile over. The travertine bricks were standing proud but some work with a cold chisel took care of that.
After doing lots of reading here I'm wondering how far out this idea is.
1st coat 4-1 sharp sand - cement...
Hi everyone, I am new to the forum!
I have just gutted my bathroom in a 150 year old victorian house and part of the prep was to ready up for a double glazed window. On taking out the window it showed how bad the inch thick plaster was on one of the external walls and I have now removed it...
Hi, I'm new here, hope someone could give me some guidance.
I'm ripping out the bathroom in my 1930's semi, and will be tiling (undecided what type at the moment but assume large) and will be putting in studwork to conceaol the mixer shower pipework.
I'm pretty much decided on hardibacker for...
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I have just removed a cast iron bath and intend to replace it with a shower. Beneath the bath there is only bare bricks. Under the existing tiles is a sand/cement render. I wil remove the tiles above and re-tile. The area beneath I will have to render. How long before I can tile over? How do I...
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Ok i'm not sure whether i'm luck or not, but i'm wondering whether the stuff/surface underneath the tiles is just a sand and cement mix or just an undercoat plaster.
I'm about to tile over with travertine tiles and know (thanks to evryone on here)...
Please could someone tell me which adesive would be the best to use for tiling straight onto new concrete blockwork and new render in a wet room shower?
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just hacked off tiles from solid shower wall, set coat has come off with tile( house is only 8 years old), render in behind i thought would be like iron(like external)!! not so, side of paint scraper can rake it back to blockwork with no effort??? is this typical of a shower wall or have...
Hello. I wish to tile my bathroom walls with 600*300*9mm glazed porcelain tiles. I weighed them and they are 20kg per sq metre excluding adhesive. After painstakingly removing all the plaster from the brick walls in the bathroom and cleaning the wall thouroughly with polydisc I had it rendered...
hi all,,done a couple of sand n cement renders for a builder as of late ,im getting conflicting advice as so far i have put a touch of plasticiser in my renders which seems to give it a bit body and easier to spread but the builder told me there is no need for it? can anyone tell me the real...
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I am having to prep the walls of a poorly made bathroom extension using Bal quickset render. Once the render is set, is there any need to prime the surface before tiling? If so, is SBR a reasonably good waterproofer? I know it won't be as effective as WP1 or a membrane but the...
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There is plenty of information out there on render mix, but its all very complicated :lol:
I have had a good quote (not the cheapest) on rendering two cotswold stone internal walls (property circa 1870).
The plasterer suggested using BAL APD to prime, and then a lime, cement, sand mix for the...
Is it normal for adhesive to take time to go off when using it on new render?
I have tiled onto a newly rendered wall - wall was rendered using a product called limelite renovating plaster, a mix of sand/cement with some lime in there. It's not a plaster in the sense that bonding coat etc is...
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I am in the process of re doing my bathroom, the tiles on the plasterboard walls are coming off ok so no probs there, but on the walls that have been plastered (the external wall) I am pulling the skim coat off, leaving just the thistle underneath.
Can I dot n dab Platerboard directly...
hi. i am tilling my very first bathroom and need a bit of advice .i have removed old tiles from the wall around the window area and the tiles have taken some of the plaster away in some parts back to the bricks (25mm deep) the area in question is only 1m x 0.5m .what is the best/quickest way to...
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I'm a newish DIYer and needing to fix large (300x600mm) tiles to a even cement render in a bathroom.
As the base is good and smooth, I'd thought I'd tile straight onto it. Does the surface need sealing first? Been suggested to use APD primer?
Also have got BAL White Star but not...
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Anybody used BAL Quickset Render? I have some lathe and plaster walls that have had some plasterboard insert put in but not level, and also some areas that are quite deep that I need to fill.
This seems to be the ideal stuff, anybody used it?
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