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Primarily for cutting 10mm thick (450 x 315) Ceramic wall tiles. Rather subjective I know, but the Rubi Star-50-N PLUS is looking good. Would welcome any opinion, but I'm happy to invest up to £60 in one. Many thanks - excellent forum/advice by the way.

Hi I have 125m2 of welsh slate to lay, I have nearly completed 1 room of 25m2. I am using instamarc rapid setPB. I used SLC to prep the floor and tried a few layouts before stating to tile. the tiles are all calibrated flat backed. However because they are riven faced they vary somewhat...

Hi guys, I'm looking for some advice on what grout colour would work best with the below floor tiles, they are a matt brown rustic effect: Can anyone point me to some pics of installations using a similar colour tile? Would ivory work, would lighter colour start looking dirty very...

If I didnt want to go down the Travertine route, whic tile would you recommend? I want the look of Travertine and have seen the Padova (at Topps) and also the Nerea (at Tile Giant) Which one of the two above has anybody got any experience with. Are they any good? Any problems? Many thanks Geoff

Hi folks, I joined the forum a few days ago (and introduced myself in the relevant thread) as I need as much advice and suggestions as possible. I am new to all of this tiling business. I am a competent diy’er aside! I live in a 3 bed 1960's bungalow in Wimborne, Dorset which I am slowly...

Got a couple of little tiling jobs coming up: 4m2 of 150x150 white ceramic over a bath/shower that has been part tiled already. I will be tiling the area that is just painted matt emulsion at present. 1 en suite and one bathroom in a flat that is carpeted and chipboarded (I am guessing)...

gonna get a new van but cant decide wot to get was wondering wot people on here think. will be buying a used van but its got to be bigg enough to get a door in as i do all types of work as well as tiling

Hi everyone, delighted to have been let in:thumbsup: I feel all grown up now! thought i would get your thoughts on this job that I started yesterday, I think the pictures say pretty much what the problem was. No expansion joint at all between the heated screed and ply, no expansion joint...

I have a customer who has plyed his bathroom floor with 18mm wbp, screwed well into joists. movement is negligible but he wants large format square edged porcs fixing brick-bond. One half of the floor is nice and flat, but the other half slopes approx 15mm over 1.5m (approx 600mm wide). I was...

I have just been to price up a job to tile the floor of a pool house and shower room. The customers are trying to source some pale colour tiles (white or beige preferably) which have good non slip surface. They have some options from local tile stores (Topps, Pilkingtons, CSW, Tile Giant) but...

Hi All, I am tiling the last wall in the bathroom and am a bit stuck as how to go around the window.:mad2: Confirmed DIYer and only 2nd time tiling so don't really want to mess it up as the rest has come out a lot better that i expected. I have some pics on an album i have just set up so...

Hi All, I am currently working on a 270 year old flagstone/sandstone type floor. The property is an old Georgian Farmhouse. The restoration has gone well so far and we have managed to clean all the old tiles, adhesive, slc and red lead paint off the floor. I have cut al,l the grout out and...

black textured porc tiles were heavily soiled on site cleaned all builders dust of them etc but the acid used to remove the heavy stains has bleached the tiles they now look patchy white in places this is not excess grout as the tiles are spotless up close you can actually see the pigmentation...

Luckily I have weekends free now with my job, what are you guys all up to and where do you go out for a day with the family ?...weather permitting of course....Gaz

Hello peeps...:grin: Been to look at a job today and customer wants me to tile around a round window, How would i hide the cuts? Could i tile the recess with mosaics or would it look stupid against 400x300 porcelain? Any suggestions much appreciated.. And how would i deal with this...

I have a job to tile a toilet but the customer wants the toilet cistern boxed in,any suggestion please on which way to do it cheers DEN

How do tilers Just thinking of new names for my tilling business. was thinking of either ideal ceramics, or concept ceramics, cant decide also cant decide on good names like A1, aqua , you know what i mean any suggestion would be great. Im from the manchester area so i dont want to rip...

Hi All Business name where did you get your ideas and inspiration from .