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    Tiling a room with multiple sub floors

    Good morning I'll be having my kitchen tiled in the very near future. It is about 8.5m by 8.5m. It has two different kinds of subfloor ie suspended timber and solid concrete. The suspended section has been reinforced with plenty of noggins and then over boarded with 22mm ply. The two floors...
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    Ditra Matt and UFH heating in wet room

    Good evening all. went to see and priced a job the other where the customer wants a wet room style floor with a shower former tiled and the tiles running out into the rest of the room. He also wants UFH in the main area in the room. I will be using the ditra Heat system and the floor tiles are...
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    Wet room shower former??

    Hi all,I have been asked to install my first tiled wet room shower tray former??fitting the tray is straight forward but I am a little miffed with how to tile the tray??do they come with a template marked on the tray of cuts to make???because if they don't how will I know what angles and sizes...
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    Wet room

    Hi guys went to take a look at a wet room today it's 20m2 in porc tiles 300x600 for walls and 5m2 in same tiles for floor ive worked out a price but don't no if it's too steep inc grout and adhesive £1290 also looking to use bal rapid set flex bagged addy will this be decent enough to do the...
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    Wet room with concrete tiles?

    I have a customer who wants me to lay concrete tiles in a wet room. Tiles are finished with olle repellant and a stain block then beeswax polished. I am concerned about the beeswax breaking down with the heat of the water and the tiles staining. Customer is happy for me to proceed after pointing...
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    Job well done, Was a funny shaped room!

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    Update on the two wet room floor re-tile jobs

    Started the first of two today. floor came up easy, they were spotted and had only stuck to the underfloor heating mat! the shower walls had been tanked with a product like mapei ( but black) .but unfortunately the wire from the underfloor thermostat came out not the tray! And the tanking was...
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    sealing travertine mosiac floor in wet room

    I am tiling a wet room that will have pitted and porous 50mm x50mm mosiac travertine to the floor.The tile supplier has advised the client to seal these tiles.I have never done this before.sealing that is in a wet area I believe a penetrating only sealer should be used,The grout would obviously...
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    Converting wet room to shower - what to do with existing waste

    Hi all, hopefully one or two of you can advise me, before I go out for quotes. I have an existing wetroom, 1300x1650 with drain in the middle of the room. Tiles are leaking, bottom of doorframe is rotting, everything in the room gets soaked when showering... In short, time to rip it out and put...
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    Wet Room with Anydryte Screed

    I have been building a house and my floor has wet UFH with Anydryte screed. With recomendations off the forum i will be laying Ditra matting with Anyfix and then marble tiles with a weber cement based adhesive. So the problem is the wetroom downstairs, the screed is anydryte but i shuttered...
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    wet room fixed screen size

    A client wants to install a wet room shower. The width of the shower area is 800mm. He ideally wants a fixed glass shower screen of 800/900mm. I have reservations about it being too short, Am i being paranoid or is it acceptable to get a much larger preformed base and go for the shorter screen...
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    Wet room floor problem

    We recently moved into a house which has an existing first floor wet room installed about 5 years ago via social services. The wet room and floor appeared fine for the first 12 months but a couple of weeks ago we noticed that the Altro vinyl flooring had come away from the wall below the...
  13. High Peak Tiling

    Unlevel room surveying.

    Hi Guys. I thought I would try this method (pictured) Using my laser off the highest point to measure how out of level the room is. If I minus the height of laser level off the end measurement off the wall (52mm) Would this work?
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    Shower room pricing

    Hi all. As some of you will know (those that have stayed awake long enough to read some of my posts!), I started tiling in June of last year. Until now, I've been getting by with tile replacements, floor tiling and kitchen splashbacks etc (the small jobs that I'm assuming most tilers start out...

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