Hi, and thanks for any advice. After pulling over 900 lbs of dead weight in the center of my joists I had no deflection for tiling a bathroom floor ( roughly 6.5' x 6.5'). I measured from the floor below to see if there was any measurable deflection/sag, but there was not even a 1/16 of an inch...
Shower Tile Repair - Tile Waterproofing in Brownstown MI. Schluter wet room conversion 24h flood test done by Tile Marble Granite Oct 1st 2023 in Huron Charter Township, MI, USA for a customer of mine that needed help with an old school water damaged shower that was leaking down to the...
Ok, so in this thread a concern was raised that the @Impey Showers tanking membrane was affected by Silicon so I decided to do a little test.
An offcut of Impey Waterguard was used and laid on the bed of my Dewalt tile saw. Areas were marked out on the membrane where the following were...
I wanted to share this test, without haste.
I started with sankyo, for now it's ok.
ps, purple ds diamont, is the only one that I found made in Italy.
costs 35 € in italy, 5 € more than montolit and sigma,
with similar characteristics.
norton and sankyo 25 €
well have been told all sorts about ufh so decided to test for my self i wanted to know the difference
between a 10mm tile and a 4.8 mm tile so i got 2 x 1 m2 mats from thermonet then used 12mm insulation boards laid the mats out then tiled one side with 4 600x600 10 mm tiles the other side i...
Okay so I've been doing a family tree. Managed to trace one line of family back to 1535. Mostly always been in England or Wales by the looks of it. So I was getting a bit sentimentally patriotic about being British born and bred.
Thought I'd do a DNA test thing to see what my geographical...
SLIP RATING FOR FLOOR TILES IN THE UK
Floorslip.co.uk recommnds minimum ptv36 as Ray has said before now. But actually it perhaps should be more than that?
Who else is clued up on this?
Just done a night making good to a floor in a local seaside coffee bar, it has not been touched since the early 70s.The floor is marble mosiac area about 120m2,the mosiac was layed in 71 and fixed with Bal Flex on Hardboard :yikes: yes Hardboard !.It has thousand's of customer's in the summer...
Following on from a previous NVQ thread
here is a useful video with some tasks that CITB Scotland ask you to complete on the day of your final apprenticeship, this might be helpful if you are doing the NVQ experienced worker route.
There is some plastering skills required too ie floor...
I went to visit an old project earlier this week, which we completed a few years ago. In fact I didnt want to go and look at it, it was a nightmare due to the programme and a difficult site manager. However someone else saw it and tracked us down so if you do a good job, you do get work of the...
Started a bathroom today, bounced on the floor and in more than one place it was terrible. So instead of taking traps up and fitting noggins ,i decided to lift the whole floor.
heres what I found!
no noggins at all.
no perimeter noggins.
two of the joists were nearly an inch from touching the...
its been really difficult for us all to get together (Ray, Gary and I)......after all we all work for a living!!!!
but I have received a "DRY" drilling bit from ATS Diamond tools.............(what sizes do you have ATS?).....
I will find a minute (or two) next week and try and kill it in...
Hiya fellas.
I've been on a large anhydrite floor and thought i'd do a little test whilst i was there.
It is by no means scientific and was done quickly, but this does copy conditions found on site and not in a lab.
The floor has underfloor heating, has been carbide bomb tested and was dry, and...
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