slate

Hi we have tiled the bathroom with slate porcelain tiles and grouted using a ready mix glitter grout. This left a glue residue on the tiles, which we scrubbed to remove. This wasn't that successful. We have now re-grouted it black and we are still left with a white residue on the tiles. We...

Hi all, I am having my kitchen redone and will be installing Gris slate from either blue sky stone or gris riven from mandarin stone (600*300*10mm). Kitchen is 10.5m2 in total with 6.5m2 of open floor. House is a Victorian terrace. There is an existing screed laid on polythene (I’m...

Hi all, first post so play nice! I am about to start a rebuild of our bathroom. It is stud walls on all sides with plasterboard. The floor is T&G chip board. Due to leaks over the years I am going to have to replace the floor boards. Along one wall we have stud box work covering the pipes...

Good evening all. I'm due to start a slate floor soon. The customer wants to keep the look/texture as natural as possible. I know that there are sealers/impregnators which can change the look to a shiny/glossy finish. What would you guys recommend as a sealer to keep the look as natural as...

So I tile this floor last week,have to go on Saturday to grout as 1st coat of seal was not dry enough Friday to grout. I go Sunday and seal again I leave a note,not to be walked on for 48 hours. I go today,house owner walked all over it Sunday aft,kitchen fitter walked all over it Tuesday,cut...

Hi there, first time poster, so go steady... My daughter has asked me if I can tile her kitchen floor with natural slate tiles. The existing floor is thermoplastic tiles on concrete. They are very firmly fixed down and are quite level (dropped my long level over the floor and it's pretty good)...

To remove existing 13.5m2, 600 x 600 porcelain tiles from heated screed. ( Not to dispose of them, thats the clients responsibilty) To SLC To lay Ditra To relay with modular slate inc all materials....SLC, Ditra, adhesive grout and sealers. Client supplying slate tiles Whats your price ?

We priced for Ditra25, two coats of sealer,to cut light holes, to cut a skirting -tile ,to tile a set of steps, fix/grout in black, :lol: then we were beaten by someone at £40 m2, so good luck to them if they can do that and make it pay :smilewinkgrin: but i bet its not to the same spec **yawn**

Good evening all. I'm looking to fix slate tiles in a kitchen which will have its original tiles removed and slate fixed. The substrate is plywood on old floorboards and the other area is just existing floorboards. If the plywood is sound and no deflection I'd be looking to lay ditra over the...

OK guys as you know i tend to tile swimming pools with mosaics , So one of my clients want us to lay a floor 5om2 in black slate, on to a sand and cement screed, i think we will have to cut lights-out floor lights, but i was hoping you guys would give me a pointer, and tell me a Square meter...

Can someone recommend best sealer to get xstreme super high gloss seal on sheera multi colour slate tiles ? Needing a wet look then the mat look. Personal choice really . Would the LTP ironwax gloss be good as Lithofin wet look MN gloss sealer . Someone mentioned STONE GLO but can't get this...

Hello everyone, I have a question that I would like answering please about slate tiles, I was supposed to be tiling a conservatory door way (took out the doors and frame) and retiling in ceramic tiles to patch in but the client has now gone out and brought a whole truck load of slate tiles...

Can you apply the above with a fiber based roller as opposed to a foam roller. The pdf instructions recommend foam roller which I have used in the past but not with complete success, as the the sponge structure reacted and expanded causing the roller to rotate in an upredictable manner. However...

Hello, ive recently had the kitchen floor done with indian slate but it hasnt gone to plan! It was laid by a family member who says he is a tiler but clearly isnt! There are steps of upto 7mm between tiles and grout everywhere! Ihave heard both these things can be fixed but how and will I be...

Hi just bought multicolour slate to do my bathroom in. I bought with the tiles a 1l tin of fila stone plus which cost a whopping £35. I've read a thread where LTP mattstone is praised but that seems to be less than half the price! 1. Have I just been 'done' by buying fila stone plus or is it...

My black slate bathroom tiles have been down about 8 years. See picture: TBH they weren't perfect from day one. One of our builders left some lovely gritty footprints through the wet sealer :-( Anyway we've had a go at resealing them a couple of times in the past but they look worse than ever...

I have a black slate floor in need of some refurbishment. It has been down about 8 years and has been stripped and released a few times. Some of the grout is grubby in places but the main problem is that the slate has marks on that just scrubbing won't remove. The picture below gives an idea of...

Just wondering what are the tolerances when laying uncalibrated slate, you're obviously not going to be able to slide a 50p piece across it as I test porcelain or ceramics. There are no trip hazards :smilewinkgrin: and I've cleaved off any nasty sharp edges but when opening the boxes of tiles it...

Hi All, Hoping someone can help. I've had rather a lot of work done on my property - inlcluding the laying of a slate floor in the kitchen. Unfortunately I've had it done by some general builders who I've since had a fall out with. The work was done whilst I've been away on returning they've...

I am in the process of renovating a victorian house and want reinstall some fireplaces. I would like to have a slate hearth however prices seem extreme high around £150+ for a 54x18inch hearth cut into three parts (solid fuel) and sawn finished, for honed sides and bevelled edges looking at...