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    Spacer size

    Hi all,looking for a bit of advice. Next month I got to big floor jobs, one will be laying 750x750 tiles and the other 800x800 tiles. What would be the best manual cutter for large format tiles. What size spacers would you use? And yes I will be putting a Silicon expansion in both jobs so was...
  2. M

    Lip clips and spacers

    Just had a look at the RLS clips and thinking about moving with the times and giving them a go. I normally use 2 mm spacers, are the 1.5 mm clips compatable with 2mm spacers or do you not need spacers with the clips also are the pliers needed. I know this is a topic that is well covered on here...
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    Advise On Trowel Type And Which Spacers For Quartz 600x600 Floor Tile

    Hi, Going to be installing over the next few weeks Gulf Quartz floor tiles 600x600 on a concentre floor in the kitchen. Floor will be primed first and tiles back buttered. I have read on this forum different opinions on which type of trowel and size to use - can you please advise best...
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    Levelling clips | Lash Clips - Suppliers of Lash Clips & Leveling Spacers

    Afternoon chaps I've got a job coming up and the developer has spec'd the use of lash clips on the floor tiling. The tiles are 600 sq super white polished porcelain, 2mm joints and he wants the clips to be used to ensure no lips/shadows etc. Aprox 200mt area with a huge glass wall and bi-folds...
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    Tiler Needed For Kitchen Backsplash, Painted Glass Tiles

    looking for someone who has experience with glass tiles for a kitchen backsplash job in hackney. Please if you could provide some details so I may contact you to get a quote. Job to start soon as you are available.
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    Skates?

    Just wondered of anyone on here uses a skate like this and how beneficial actually are they?.....also those spacers take a lot of skill away from the tiler... Anyone can bang them down and use those spacers! View: https://youtu.be/DUnk9W6PVMI
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    Worktop Or Spacer?

    In the process of tiling my kitchen walls between below my kitchen units and the worktop. I was going to start tiling with the tile resting on the worktop and working up to the unit. However, a chap and keen DIYer told me to sit the tile on a 2mm spacers to allow the bead of Silicon to seal...
  8. G

    Are 2mm Spacers Ok For Large Tiles?

    Is it ok to use 2mm spacers for tiles that are 300x600? Are suretile spacers worth getting?
  9. O

    3day Flash Sale!!

    For anyone looking to spend their hard earned, I just got an email from Power Tool World, announcing a 3 day flash sale! Or maybe there's something Santa could bring you! ;) 3 Day Flash Sale!
  10. O

    Cutting Porcel-thin Tiles With A Speed Cutter And Montolit Flash Line.

    Spent some time this afternoon with @GaryTheTiler and @Ray TT @ Porcel-Thin testing different cutting machines for use on Pocel-Thin tiles and other tiles that come under the classification of TPT (Thin Porcelain Tiles) We tested the Speed Cutter that's been the main cutter at Porcel-Thin, and...
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    Kitchen Splashback Layout

    Evening all, My first post here so please be gentle with me!;) I'm redoing the kitchen and after some advice for the splashback. We're looking at flat brick style tiles, nothing too fancy (probably these from Walls & Floors). The old tiles are mostly coming off fine, having been stuck on to...
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    Flash Player Crashing on the forum

    I get this which shows itself top left hand side of the screen of my laptop occasions.... SecurityError: Error #2060: Security sandbox violation: ExternalInterface caller http://www.tilersforums.com/js/swfupload/Flash/swfupload.swf cannot access <unknown>. at...
  13. Z

    using 1mm spacers with rectified tiles

    Hi , I am currently doing a large floor area up , 300 sqm approx. i have polished porcelain 60x60 tiles and I am considering using 1mm spacers , do you think that would be OK ? also the tiles are like ivory/white colour - i am considering using epoxy grout but what are the main benefits of...
  14. B

    kitchen splash

    Just been to price a job 4sq metres of kitchen splashback about 400mm above worktops and up to the cooker hood the tiles are 150x75 fairly straightforward....... until she told me she wanted them fixed herringbone any ideas how this should be priced guys
  15. R

    Time To Retile A Splashback

    in a show room you have to keep on changing your displays so today out with the old and in with the new so off comes the sales head put on the tiling head and away i go again best part of the job free to just get on with it, apart from answering the phone dealing with clients when your head is...
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    Urgent - Office Wc Splashbacks Near Keele Staffordshire

    Hi I'm posting for somebody I know who needs help completing some toilet facilities in a new office building near Keele in Staffordshire. The site is available this week and ideally the job needs to be completed by Monday. The job itself is 5 small tiled areas underneath hand-dryers in ladies...
  17. Dan

    Spacer Between Tile Trim And Last Tile, Or Butt It Up To The Tile?

    A recent thread and a couple of members made me question the way I've been using tile trim recently and I wondered which way the forum guys and gals do it. I've always butted the tile trim up to the tile WITHOUT a spacer, on both an external corner, and when tiles finish half way up a wall...
  18. Z

    tanking with flashing tape

    Hi Everyone You guys helped me out last year and I did our bathroom/level access shower which hasn't leaked so far! Went a bit OTT on the old marmox and taping etc but thought better be safe than sorry! Anyway, had to do a shed roof repair over winter (knocked down now) so used roof flashing...
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    Tile Spacer Sizes

    Are tile spacer sizes actual or nominal? Bought what I thought was 1.5mm and 2mm and it seems as if they are 1.1mm and 1.8mm. Am trying to layout 300mm x 100mm metro tiles horizontally in shower cubicle from tray to ceiling (23 rows) and want to avoid an awkwardly-sized top row where they meet...
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    Acrylic splash back?

    Any one fitted one of these before......? I've got one to do next week.....well I say one, it's two kitchens in one house really. The boards come in 2400 x 900 sheets and I will have to cut to fit and cut out sockets etc, which isn't to much of a problem its getting a nice finish on the edges...

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