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    Mapei Keraquick won't set?

    Hi all I need to put down a small amount of backerboard and a few tiles at the end of my kitchen. I put down a thin layer of adhesive last night (5mm say) to build up the level a bit so I could stick down the backerboard and tiles today. It used keraquick with latex plus but 10-11 hours later...
    • Futuregrout
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    • adhesive aus grout keraquick mapei mapei adhesive mapei grout set usa
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Super Dooper Rapid Set....

    A big part of my job is response maintenance for social housing so i often get jobs of fallen, defected or cracked tiles. I can travel up to 50 miles to refit 3 tiles behind a cooker or wash hand basin. (Hey its not my diesel or time). So often the surveyor will want it completed on one visit...
    • danmasey
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    • aus rapid rapid set set tile adhesive usa
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Ditra & Rapid Set?

    Can you lay Ditra with Flexi Rapid???? :D
    • beanz
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    • anti-crack aus ditra floor matting membrane rapid rapid set schluter set systems uncoupling usa
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Bit of a set back

    Went out to start tiling the showroom I'm putting some displays in today, and they have had a bit of a fire over Christmas! One of the wood flooring lads had been in the garages putting linseed oil on some solid oak planks and left the rags in a bag with all the sawdust and off cuts! Fire wasn't...
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    Ideal For New Starter - Full Set Up Of Tiling Tools Etc

    I am retiring and have a full set of tiling tools and equipment for sale. This would make an ideal starter package for someone looking to get into the tiling trade with less cost than buying new. All the items are used but in perfectly good working order. I do not want to sell the items one by...
    • Rookery
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    • aus full new build set set up tiling tiling tools tools usa
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    1st Job - Brick bond set bathroom

    Hi Guys and Girls, i've got my first job starting next week and its a brickbond set in a bathroom, i think the customer is removing the sink and toilet. But if they dont is there any difference to setting out compared to normal straight set. Get your datum line then work out your cuts in the...
    • barclay1406
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    • aus bathroom bond brick brick bond find a tiler job jobs set tiling job tiling jobs tiling work usa work
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Bathroom Tiling Advice
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    B & Q Have set me back a day.

    Went to start a balcony today the tiles are Porcelain 600 x 300 ,The customer got the tiles from B & Q, I asked the customer last week to make sure they are frost proof he said that B & Q assured him that they were because there porcelain ,looked on the boxes and what did it say "for internal...
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    Advice on which drill set?

    Morning all Just looking for some advice on which drill set to buy. Looking at the Rubi set on Tradetiler Tradetiler Tile Rubi Wall Tile Drills But wondered if its good quality, and also as I am just starting out (trying to keep costs down!) do i need the full set or are there particuler...
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    Weber Set Plus White but Was A Light Grey

    Anybody else had any of this, had 2 bags which were the light grey bought all at the same time with the white...indicated they were white on the bags though. Doing ceramic so no big deal but if it was a light stone may have been a problem. Going to pop back to the supplier tomorrow and have a...
    • White Room
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    • adhesive aus grey light set usa weber weber adhesive white
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Karl dahm Silicon set

    Hi bought this set on the recommendations it's received here, just after some advice on what sizes I should use for internal corners and around the bath, is it 7mm for internal and 10mm around the bath? Thanks
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    core set

    im selling my core set only used the 117mm core too drill two holes less then a month old over £200 in maidstone plumbing. Ill take £150 ono i will post at buyers expense
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    Laticrete Thin set

    Laticrete Thin Set is a product that seems to be used a lot by mosaicists in the US, I've just read a post on another forum where someone said that they use it to stick tesserae to mesh. Anyone know of any suppliers here in the UK or anyone used it? I've been through their website and it just...
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    Modified Thin Set Adhesive for Dural Wp/Tuff2 Former?

    Folks, I have installed a tuff2 former into a small on-suite bathroom. Walls have been tanked using Dural Wp and Mapei Keraquick. The floor is mainly taken up with the Tuff 2 former however a small area is over-boarded with marine ply. In order to provide maximum adhesion, I have purchase 6Kg...
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    Trying to set up new business!

    Hi All Just completed a 2 week plasterin and tiling course with UK Trades Training and am now looking to set up on my own. So basically looking for any tips from self employed people out there! Advice from what tools to any grants/funding which may be available to a woman setting out on her...
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    rapid set

    Hi guys , so i go into tile shop this morning still half asleep to pick up my adhesive for the day ive got 400 x 200 wickes ceramic tiles to fit to skimmed plaster board in a bathroom, shower area has been tanked and all area's primed with sbr, so im after a rapid set for said job. The chap in...
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    Tiles set into bitumen

    I recently repaired a small section of a macdonalds restaurant floor and now they have asked me to look at the floor in the kitchen section. terazzo tiles are set into what looks like bitumen, grouted with cement based grout, there are expansion joints dividing the floor into roughly 7m2...
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    Outdoor Tiling Substrate Prep - How to set a Gradient

    Hi All, Just done my bathroom (4 tiles left) and started my kitchen this weekend(just got wet cuts left to do). Now started to think on how I am going to tackle tiling my outside patio 7m x 4m when the weather warms up. Back in October i had a patio poured in concrete but the gradient is not...
    • itidiot
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    • how how to tile outdoor prep set substrate tiling tiling guide usa
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    cork tiles, set in bitumen on concrete floor

    Hello chaps, just had a look at a floor tiling job. Currently there are cork tiles laid on bitumen, on a concrete floor. They are the original floor covering in a hallway and WC, been down since the early 1960's and tight as a drum,with no lifting evident. So my question is, are they ok to go...
    • Paulyboy
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    • bitumen concrete floor floor tiling set tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Lack of demand for slow set.

    Was in my local Tile Giant pricing materials(good service as always Canterbury branch :thumbsup:) and noticed there was no slow set on display next to the rapid I was pricing.Asked them if they had a run on it & he said theres no demand for it,and will order in if asked. Any other TG not...
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    slow setting rapid set

    Hello all, anyone finding the low temperatures affecting setting times this week and last? We're using a pallet of keraquick white and it's damn slow in a cold house,lol. No doubt into double figures setting time, it is setting well though when done.
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