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  1. C

    Help Tile advice and Suggestions required

    Hello we are currently trying to choose a tile to lay on the ground floor (70m2) of our house. The flooring is currently chipboard with a membrane and polystyrene underneath on top of concrete. I have been advised that I will need to put no more ply or backer board down. I have a couple of...
  2. C

    Emergency Help suggestions for Removing Grout!

    Hi all, new here and I need some desperate help. Recently got my dad to tile my kitchen backsplash, took a while as it’s was a herringbone style with lots of cuts, but once the tiles were on the wall it looked really good and was worth the extra time and effort. I brought all the adhesive and...
  3. S

    Shower wall niche suggestions

    Im in the process of building out this wall that will form one wall of a shower cubicle once tiled. Id like to build a wall niche into this wall as a feature but im stuck on the best way to set everything out so the niche is centred in the shower tray. The shower tray is 700mm deep and id be...
  4. H

    Soundproofing/Acoustic Underlay Suggestions

    Looking to add sound proofing to my upcoming project Will be replacing ply, then adding jacko 10ml on top followed by UFH/decoupler (Ditra Heat/Dural CIFH). Levelling compound on top followed by tile Any suggestions on what soundproofing to add above the new ply?
  5. acaciaguy

    Folding work table suggestions

    I’m looking for a folding / portable work table to put my wet and dry cutter on and would also use it for my mitre / chop saw Any suggestions?
  6. J

    advice / suggestions for tiling round this socket

    Hi all please see attached image in my kitchen I have come to a slight standstill on one wall due to these two sockets. tiles are being laid in brick style. would it be a case of cutting the tile to an upside down T shape with my grinder? thanks
  7. P

    WASHBOY SPONGE (suggestions) :/

    Suggestions for best washboy sponge. I want really soft sponge and low water retention. Just can’t settle with a particular one.
  8. dottigirl

    Small kitchen tiling job for a newbie - suggestions appreciated

    While I'm waiting for tradesmen to see to my bathroom, I'm going to finish this job. Please excuse any totally stupid questions. Small kitchen I've had installed for convenience: sink run by dottigirl posted Apr 13, 2018 at 5:53 AM cooker run by dottigirl posted Apr 13, 2018 at 5:56 AM There...
  9. C

    Very small toilet off bedroom (6' x 2') any suggestions on tiles to use

    I've got a tiny toilet off my bedroom only 2ft wide and 6 foot long. I am about to rip out all toilet and sink fittings and I'm looking to tile the walls and replace tiles on floor. Does anyone have any ideas for tiles that would suite the walls .I have saw some blue glass mosaic tiles in...
  10. B

    Suggestions appreciated for best results discontinued stone

    Ok gents, suggestions for best way to merge these two floors together. 610x610x20mm tumbled travertine supplied by Mandarin stone. Discontinued, no spares! Customer took down a partition wall thinking easy to get spares, to the left 30 square metres, to the right 40 square metres. Money not...
  11. S

    Suggestions on a good blade for cutting 20mm stone.

    Looking for some recommendations on a good blade for my grinder. Used for a stone job I have coming up 20mm thick (Jaipur brushed) is the name of the stone
  12. I

    Improvement suggestions regarding the JOTM uploading process.... And stuff

    I tried to enter one last night but, couldn't upload any photos to my post, is there something I'm not doing right?
  13. L

    Tile trim Mitre box suggestions?!

    What do people use as their mitre box/block for aluminium tile trim?? Currently using a small metal one but I'm in the market for something better as it drives me mad. I know a few tilers who use a small chop saw which I couldn't get along with when I borrowed it. Also used a quansol one once...
  14. O

    New competition!!

    Afternoon everyone, as the thread title suggests there's a new competition or two on the horizon! Thing is, we don't know what it is yet! :D This is where you guys come in...... We're looking for fairly sensible ideas of what to do. The main criteria is that it must be available to EVERYONE...
  15. Wishiwasatoptiler

    Reading Material

    Hi all With been new to this tiling game, looking for some reading material, ref etc, finding hard to get hold of anything, have got hold of an old tile setting book by Michael Byrne, unfortunaly is American, while some of the info is the same, setting out etc, but would like ta get my hands on...
  16. Dan

    New phone soon, suggestions?

    apple have screwed up the music app. Unless youre online it's now rubbish. Buttons don't work unless you've subscribed and if you're somewhere with no wifi and not a strong signal (the times you usually need your music more than ever) most features don't work and buttons have been replaced...
  17. Dan

    Media Gallery Category Suggestions

    As well as uploading pictures and jobs etc in their own albums in your own media gallery area, there's a shared category system. I thought quite handy to show potential clients of what can be done generally. So for example you might have done a job in glitter grout using blue grout and silver...
  18. Dan

    Resources Category Suggestions

    As with the media gallery thread I just created. I also need some category suggestions for the resources area. The resources area is a place to upload files, and allow others to download them. So currently I have "Supplier Brochures" which I'll get some PDF's off a few firms and get them...
  19. Dan

    Media Gallery Category Suggestions...?

    I need some media gallery category suggestions. I'm struggling to think of category names. Can you help?!
  20. M

    Critique this method: suggestions / advice appreciated

    'Evening Gents, Recently joined the forum and have spent the last week trawling through loads of threads here to get my head around the right way to tackle a floor tiling job in my own home. I'm a joiner by trade but can take advice / read instructions / measure accurately and work to fine...

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