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  1. W

    Need advice for brick slips in kitchen

    Hi Guys i’m going to be tiling over skimmed plaster walls in a kitchen for first time. (first time over bare plaster) Do i need to prime the walls with anything? I use rapid set mapei wall tile adhesive and the brick slips will be made of sand and cement not clay. So basically concrete based...
  2. J

    Using brick slips as a bathroom floor over old bitumen

    Hi there everyone. What a fantastic forum. I have taken out the bathroom in our 1930s bungalow. The floor was tiled, and well stuck down. Removing the tiles has revealed a layer of bitumen painted onto concrete. The floor is solid and isn't likely to move. My question is this...what kind of...
  3. noobmaster69

    Brick Slips on False Chimney Breast

    Having decided I was bored of a living room devoid of personality, I decided I wanted to go with the Victorian library look. A big part of that is having a false chimney breast installed to replace the hard wired fire suite and having the chamber of said chimney breast tiled with brick slips. As...
  5. R

    Attaching brick slips to painted plasterboard and other questions

    Hi Tilers, this is my first question on this forum and I've got a few different areas to cover! I am a DIYer, working on renovating a kitchen, utility room and cloakroom/shower room. My previous experience of tiling is using large format porcelain tiles onto cement/foam backer board, on floors...
    • Roshep
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    • brick brick slips canada painted plasterboard questions slips
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    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  6. K

    Brick slips sealant

    Hi all, I'd like to install brick slips on a wall of my kitchen as a form of splashback. I want to make this as easy to clean as possible (fake tiles are just not authentic enough) so what sealant is recommended for this type of job?
  7. C

    Brick slips

    Hi Lads Brick slips becoming more and more popular. How much as a general idea are lads charging. I normally try to get 40-50m2 Sometimes i wonder if its worthbthe hassle when it comes to pointing up
  9. T

    Brick slips on dot and dab plastered wall - options?

    Hi all, Doing our kitchen renovation and would really like to use some brick slips, for the 3 recessed sections (angled to the left, chimney recess and large section to the right) The wall has been boarded with dab adhesive, with a skim over the top with 1 paint coat over a mist. I did a...
  10. N

    Laying brick slips as flooring

    Has anyone had much experience of floor tiling using brick slips? If so, what sort of price did you charge vs traditional tiles? Any help/advice appreciated by a newbie!!
    • Neil F
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    • brick brick slips canada floor floor tiling flooring laying slips
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  11. Adam18Spring

    For Sale 200 SQM of Brick Slips

    Hello For sale is 200 square meters of brick slips. These are genuine clay slips suitable for external, internal, walls and floors. The pictures show a range of different finishes. Delivery is available, could potentially split into 100 or 50SQM depending Please send me a private message to...
  13. Minmax89

    Using brick slips in shower?

    Hi guys and gals! Hope you're all keeping well. The missus is begging me to do our bathroom. I'm always doing everyone else's and ours is ****, she says. Our house is an old workers cottage from around 1906 and is build with slate and lime mortar mainly then with red brick accents around...
  14. A

    Brick Slips - should have asked a tiler and not a brickie

    Hi All I got some slips laid at the front of my house and I’m not happy with the job - some of the rows are a bit off, and when I challenged the brickie he said the slips are not cut straight and couldn’t be laid straight so I told him to stop the job. My assumption is despite brick slips being...
    • AlexJones
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    • brick brick slips find a tiler have not should slips tiler tilers directory
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: General Off-topic Chat
  15. J

    20mm brick slips on 12mm ply

    hi all, Looking for some advice. Tiling 20mm thick brick slips onto 12mm ply wood on the walls. It is fixed very well. I am just wondering what prep people would do and what adhesive you would use. Changing the ply for plasterboard or hardi is not a option.
    • Jamorgan90
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    • 20mm brick brick slips canada ply slips
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  17. R

    Brick slips

    Whats best place to get real brick slips? Tried CTD, Topps, Tile Giant and Jewson and no one does them. Could get them online but prefer to see them first. Thanks
  18. J

    Brick Slips on floor

    Had a customer contact me a month or so ago, listed building, want old looking brick floor. They have found and bought some brick's cut into slips from eastern Europe, look ok, so gave a price to fix, grout and seal. They didn't know what colour grout to go with so did a sample board, but the...
    • J Sid
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    • brick brick slips canada customers floor floor tiling slips
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  19. G

    Brick Slips fixing advice

    Hi, I would welcome some advice as I have got myself into a pickle. I planned to attach brick slips to a bonded coat in my kitchen however have realised that they will be too heavy to be directly attached so am now considering attaching a cement based back board but am not sure how to fix it...
    • gaggarwal1981
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    • advice brick brick slips fixing slips
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: DIY Tiling Forum
  21. S

    Brick Slips Question

    Starting a shower room on Monday and my customer informed me yesterday she has picked slate brickslips (see pic) as a 300 wide vertical border on the wall up the centre of a 1700 shower tray.. The shower area will be tanked but am a little concerned these shouldn't perhaps be used in a wet...
    • Spare Tool
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    • brick brick slips canada shower slips
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  22. O

    Brick Slips advice req

    Hi All I have been asked to tile the insides of an old chimney breast that is going to have a log burner fitted once tiled. Any hints and tips please......like is it best to pre seal the slips before tiling?.....prefered tile adhesive?..... Thanks in advance
  23. W

    Brick slips

    Anyone wanting brick slips doing should give pjc off this forum a call. His lads have just finished on a job I recommended him for and the work is top quality. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him again. The two blokes he sent were great and left the site nice and tidy as well.
  25. D

    Brick slips onto hardiebacker 500

    Hi Can anyone help!..... I am having a log burner installed and using hardibacker in the fireplace chamber and need to know if I need to seal the boards if using a none cement tile adhesive. The adhesive I will be using is vitcas heat resistant tile adhesive and will be putting 20mm brick...
    • DAVE1096
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    • aus brick brick slips hardiebacker slips usa
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  26. M

    fixing brick slips onto existing plaster chimney breast

    HI I am new to this sight and was wondering what adhesive I should use to fix real brick slips to my chimney breast? I have had to remove my existing fire surround and open up the fireplace for installation of a wood burner. The plaster on the breast is solid but crazed so I thought brick slips...
    • malcy
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    • aus brick brick slips chimney fixing plaster slips usa
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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