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    What prep to do, cut plaster out?

    Hello everyone, Thank you for allowing me to join the forum. I'm replacing the toilet hand basin and needed to remove some old tiles because the size of the new basin didn't match up to the position of the old tiles. I have removed the old tiles but there is damage to the plaster wall...
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    Advice on repairing 3 tiles

    Hello. I need your help again please. I'm due to remove this 3 cracked tiles which have cracked for the third time after having replaced them 3 times (picture). I'm not planning to re-tile the entire floor but just the 3 always-cracking-tiles. What would you recommend to do? What should I...
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    Advice on bathroom floor partial retile

    Hello, am new here, I’m a homeowner looking for advice on fixing what appears to be a botched bathroom refit approx 3 years ago (single contractor did the lot singlehandedly, walls & floor retiled and new suite) with multiple issues. Issues became apparent with crumbling grout, I didn’t...
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    Limestone Bathroom floor retile

    Have an 8 metre limestone bathroom floor wants retiling with new limestone . It's got to come up , I'm wondering if the existing adhesive stays pretty solid whether self leveller or filling it out flat with rapid will save having to crowbar up the ply , if not the best way to get the ply up so I...
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    Bathroom Retile Tool Advice

    Hello All. Hope you all had a good Xmas, as usual I ate too much and now suffering. Not a Tiler by trade just a DIyer. Tiled my kitchen a couple of times in past + the bathroom once. Started out using a scribe then trying to break tiles over a block which did not work. Then went up to a Wickes...
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    Time To Retile A Splashback

    in a show room you have to keep on changing your displays so today out with the old and in with the new so off comes the sales head put on the tiling head and away i go again best part of the job free to just get on with it, apart from answering the phone dealing with clients when your head is...
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    Retile / Retank

    I'm soon to do a job fitting a replacement electric shower and retile of the shower area. I've searched the forum for the answer but haven't found the exact answer I'm looking for. Basically my question is this: Once I remove the old tiles, if the plaster (either board or directly on brick)...
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    Retile after tile removal damaged Marmox board

    I needed to replace 3 tiles and in removing the old ones the backer board has got damaged - the tiles were on Marmox board so it damages fairly easily. I'm guessing there is no way to effectively repair the board so I think the way forward would be to remove the existing board that is exposed...
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    Wet Room Retile

    Hi guys got a little problem with a wet room hope you can help Whats the best And i mean best money inst a problem tile addy and grout to use is a wet room round the shower that suffers from condensation/moisture on the walls after the shower is used ???? there's a air unit to draw out the air...
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    How much should I expect to pay to retile front path in black/white victorian style?

    We have been quoted around £**. This seems high to me, and I would appreciate any guidance. The front path needs replacing, as the quarry tiles that are currently in place are all cracked and many are missing. I live in North London, and any advice would be really welcome! Kirsty
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    retile a bathroom

    Quality tiler required to retile a bathroom, just walls and tank the shower area and bath splash area. approx 26 metres in large format white tiles. Tiler to supply tiles or fix only, no tube adheasive to be used.
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    Fireplace retile

    Hi all, Ive been asked to retile a fireplace for a customer who already has the new tiles. Im going to have a look at the fireplace and tiles on friday, is there anything i should be looking out for ( common pitfalls etc ). Customer wants me to tile over the existing, not keen at all on that...
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    Retile floor

    Starting a bathroom floor on Sunday and will have to lift old tiles 1st not sure what substrate is below tiles but it is raised by about 25mm opposed to the hall floor so I assume it has been overlaid. The grout is cracked around a lot of the tiles that are in place at the moment don't Know if...

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