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Hi all, im fixing some floor tiles for a customer on wednesday white polished porcelain, tilesporcelain in Durham have told me they are nano sealed, will i need to clean this of and seal? is it a transit wax or different they say no sealer needed? not one for trusting shop assistants! :lol:

can the nanowax preseal be removed from polished porcelain? a customer of mine says that under certain lighting he can see the preseal and it looks like a dull haze, he is by his own admission is nightmarishly fussy,he has some spare presealed tiles which he has compared to unsealed tiles...

Hi all got a marble job, cappaccino marble,very shiney. ive asked the tile shop if they need sealing and they said ltp matt stone sealant would be fine but ive also read elsewhere that as they are polished the sealant wouldnt penetrate and is a waste of time. :mad2: Ive done a marble job...

Hi all, I was looking at a friends not so new, new build this evening. He wants a decent amount of tiling done. The main job is on a sealed gypsum screed. The screed was put in and polished about a year ago. It is over a wet UFH system. They where advised to seal the screed with an water based...

Hi allWe've spent a fortune on our new patio and were distraught to find that once sealed; any water, rain or tap, leaves it with White spots.Our builders sealed it with a wickes sealant and it cost about £25.Help with removing it and if the white marks can be avoided would be very much...

Just had 45m2 of black strata limestone laid, we cleaned it last week and allowed it to dry and then sealed it the next day with Thompsons clear limestone sealer, it dried for about 6 hours and then came the rain. I have now a patio covered with what looks like white salt marks and it looks...

Hello all! I'm new here (first post) so i hope it isn't a dumb question, please help! I've had an extension build with a concrete floor. the surface of the concrete is very dusty, you can just sweep and sweep and the piles of dust just keep coming! I was advised to seal the floor with a...

Just a quickie in the Arms. Would I be better off trying to remove wax and grout haze from polished porcelain tiles with Nanoscrub? Been reading a few threads on the subject and have come to this conclusion. BTW - the tiles have been laid and the tiler did not remove wax nor did he seal the...

Hi, we laid some ESL ceramics Molise beige tiles in the kitchen and used Granfix Maxigrout in brown colour (not my choice) and the grout has stained the tiles badly. My builder/jack of all trades didn't follow the instructions to do a test on a spare tile and dived straight in and.. oh dear I...

Has anyone got a pic of how to "stack" stone tiles when they have been sealed prior to tiling, please? I'm talking about in the "V" formation, if that makes sense. I have a customer that is planning on applying impregnator to the tiles before I do the fixing and I wish to ensure that the...

I need some help guys as this really ahs me stumped. I recently installed 40sqm of travertine floor. After grouting the entire surface it was mopped a number of times with resin remover diluted in water. Once the floor had been mopped the bucket was emptied and replaced with clean water and...

wen tiling onto plywood floors should the ply be sealed before tiling

Hi there my girlfriend moved into her new house the other day and its one of three houses all the same tiles.The tiles are what i believe to be travertine tiles very bumpy irregular texture 100 x 100 approx ,with holes in them with what seems to be filled white grout maybe.as these tiles are...

Hi, A neighbour of mine has a friend who has quarry tiles layed on her kitchen floor ,the problem is they are a matt finish and have been sealed, but she doesnt like them and now wants wants them shiny. Can I still make them shine though they are sealed? Any ideas as to what to use if poss...

Went to a party last night and met up with another tiler of 30 years plus, His father was also a tiler so were going back a few years. Polished porcelain came up in the conversation and he was saying that when he washs down after grouting there always seems to be small areas of grout ingressed...

Hi Black brazilian riven slate floor, washed down but not properly cleaned after laying. (I asked 3 times for them to do it but they was still a lot of dust etc). They've put one coat of LTP Mattstone on it and it came up very light grey/white because there was still so much dust on the...

Hi All - This is just the forum I was looking for - Hope you can advise.... I am new to this, and layed my first tiles last week. They are Glazed Porcelain Dust Pressed floor tiles (cream in colour) I began grouting a couple of them with 'cocoa' coloured grout - but as soon as I attempted...

hello folks tilersforum newbie with a problem. last week we laid a filled 60 by 40 travertine floor but when we sealed it, it turned out very patchy. cant remember what kind of sealers i used but i;d never heard of it before (can find out if necessary). the sealers seemed to have soaked into...

I had polished porcelain tiles laid in the kitchen by a family friend. These were sealed using Lithofin FZ Protective Impregnator however the tiles are still being stained. I assumed that he hadnt used enough sealer but before attempting to reseal the tiles i had to try to remove the stains! I...

I HAVE NEVER SEALED PORCELAIN. My supplier says that there is no point in sealing Porcelain and yet he stocks a Porcelain sealer. I have read contradictory comments on web sites on the subject. If sealant should be applied to certain Porcelains what is the criteria. Come on you experts,lets hear...