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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

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...

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

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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...

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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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Looking for advice.. I have recently done a few splashbacks where the worktops are a good 10mm away from the out of square walls.. I also always put first tile a couple of mm above worktop.. When i come to siliconing tiles to top it all bloody vanishes down the back of worktops!!!... Any...

I'm a diy lover and I've been getting lots of work done myself, or with some help from pro's every now and then. I've just gone through some renovation at home and one of the last steps was laying my glass mosaic back splash. Now I would like to make holes on it for some hooks I have. I've tried...

We are having a constant battle with learners and employers of apprentices regarding leaving tile spacers in the joint. This is something I have never done on any job ( that I can remember:rolleyes5:). There are loads of YouTube vids and many pieces of literature that show the spacer in the...

I am tiling the following floors in my house renovation and was wondering what the views are on whether I should use Mapei Latex Plus: 900x900 slate tiles on concrete floor For this floor Mapei have recommended; Prime the surface of the heating cables & the boards with Mapei Eco prim grip...

hi guys, I got my hands on a few boxes of tiles today, they are 36x27 cm... just wonderd what you guys think of doing my splash in them? have you ever done a splash in such big tile? cheers