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Hello All, My name is Daniel and I'm brand new to this forum. I'm looking for advice and suggestions on how to properly construct a steam shower pan. What techniques, and more importantly, what materials do folks use for these? Is PVC/Chloraloy membrane a no-no? Which membrane materials can...

Trying to choose tiles for my steam/shower room. Would like mosaic for ceiling & seat, and a porcelain floor tile. Can I use mosaic tiles with a plastic mesh backing and are the glass one okay to use. Someone told me they get too hot and marble ones too porous. Just getting more confused...

Hey guys new member here I've been tiling for almost 8 years I have a customer that would like a curbless steam shower with marble tiles floor to ceiling and electric heat system underneath these tiles. This will be my first steam shower I Do by myself just wondering advice on the best...

Looking for a tiler/bathroom/wet room installer who can do local authority disability conversion work in Gatwick/West Sussex area. This particular job is a straight swap of bath for enclosed shower with steam (needs tanking), swap WC for Grohe Sensia electric bidet/WC, swap basin for suspended...

Customer asked me today if it was ok to use a steam mop on a tiled porcelain floor... Anyone know...??

Sorry didn't know where to post this.. Currently building a wetroom and have seen costco have got steam generators for sale. Thinking of using the wetroom as a steam room. What would be required and best way to go about it? This is the kit i have seen. Insignia 6kW Heavy Duty Steam Room...

Hi folks. I had the bright idea of mixing discontinued B&Q metallic tiles with B&Q (Pilkingtons) Hot Rocks matte tiles in my kitchen. After discovering they were about 5mm different in size, despite being nominal 100 x 100, the project went on the back-burner for years. Recently I decided to...

Hi all, Can you please give me your opinion on the best adhesive and grout to use in a commercial steam room as I have to repair some mosaics and reroute the area? Any experiences of doing such a job would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jon

Gents, Any idea what the best Silicon would be to use in a steam room? I need to Silicon the glass U channel areas as they have finally started to go mouldy after 6 years of use. I wish I could remember what the last brand was as it's held up so well but I just can't remember. Thanks!

Im tiling a bathroom this week and I've now been informed that it's going to be a steam shower fully enclosed. It's all waterproofed etc but I'm in 2 minds about grout. I thought it would have to be epoxy but keracoll said I can use their fugabella grout. Anyone got any thoughts on this or if...

Finished a steam room this week that had some unusual angles and external corners. The room is constructed of Lux Elements installed by Helo. Theres hardly a right angle in the whole house. The seats arent at right angles so I put a seam at the junction. The mosaics are in the Paola blend. Sharon

I know steam cleaning on stone tiles in a no no, Ive been tiling 13 years seen lots of customers using steam cleaners on floors my wife even used one on our stone floor with no damaging effects over the last 10 years, Ive been looking at sx 15 to clean travertine and get dirt out the holes in it...

hi I have a customer who is intent on cleaning her limestone floor with a steam cleaner even though I have said she should not! Now, after 6 months of steam cleaning every few days , some of the tiles have a white rough surface to them. I suspect it is the steam cleaner. Does anyone else...

This is a steam room I finished last week and was good fun, small but a tad complicated. The customer had seen a pic of graduated mosaics and took it to Domus and they suggested Bisazza 10mm paperfaced mosaics, bless em lol. With the amount there was there wasnt enough for a vertical blend. With...

Hiya, i am new here and i am looking for advice and tips for my first steam shower. I will be fitting a 2000x800 former to the floor with a centre liner drain, under floor heating matt will be on top then ceramic or porcelain tiles. I will be putting a 12.5mm themal insulation board (like a...

We have had a wonderful black cleft slate kitchen floor (unsealed/no enhancement) for the past 12 months, and have little issue keeping it clean thus far. We're considering using either Lithofin Slate Seal or Colour Enhancer (depending on results of patch testing left over tiles), and are...

Anyone have any info regarding using steam cleaners as being sold everywhere at the moment on tiles and grout ? Good or bad ??

i whent to see a job the other week the steam room needs to be tiled inside and out BUT !! they have built it out of ply :mad2: so i will need to overboard everthing then tank and tile so whats the best and most cost effective tile backer board to buy and use, i was thinking of fixing the boards...

Hi All, A customer of mine is asking wether or not you can steam clean the new slate floor im laying for her once its sealed. Any ideas?? Thanks guys

Hi Someone sent me a message, which I deleted by mistake before I could answer, asking me what adhesive I used on steam room ceilings. I use Mapei Adesilex P10 for all areas of a steam room including the ceilings. The steam rooms are constructed with pre-molded WEDI which are solid so I dont...