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Fired earth hand trown terracotta.
i have been asked to quote on fixing 20m2 diamond pattern 300x300 hand thrown terracotta to a pretty much rectangluar room (one small diag. return wall). the tiles are pre sealed for handling and will require two coats of sealer, and fired earth insist on the grout joints being pointed (as...- dagger
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Terracotta Repair
Did a repair job this week, just a couple of tiles to replace. What surprised me was how the edges of the tiles (unsealed but top surface was sealed) sucked the moisture out of the grout. (mapei ultra colour) saw surface cracks appear straight away. Just told told the customer I would check on...- faithhealer
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terracotta tile treatment
I am a novice and know very very little about this subject, but I want advice how to clean and restore an old terracotta tile floor in my entrance room that hasn't had anything done to it for at least 20 years(other than washing with flash). When it's wet the colours look great but it soon...- angel
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Michael Jackson has died from a heart attack at 50.
Reports that Michael Jackson has died, rumoured to have had a heart attack. On the news now- White Room
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Terracotta tile replacement
Some of the tiles have come away from my step as you can see in the pictures below. None of the tiles are damaged and all I want to do is replace them and restore the step. There are other tiles near the front edge that are getting a bit loose but further in towards the door the tiles are sound...- NeilGo
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Dried my tears (TTA award) Now back from Exhibitions....
Dried my tears from not winning the TTA award.. Losing out to N&C plastic matting..! Now back from the exhibition circuit and have between now and September to get cracking on those leads... Lot of tiling companies / kitchen companies at all shows and in the end they were sending over their...- Deleted member 1779
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Cleaning Terracotta tiles
Hello all Newbie here :hurray: I am so sorry for posting an obvious question - where I could have got the answer from doing a search :thumbsdown: I have got really confused between all the advice & different products to buy ... so here I am with my question ... hope someone will offer...- iggy
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My brickbond plan, image attached, feedback please
Hi guys, I quickly knocked this up earlier this morning, the drawing is to scale and I have accounted for the grout lines by increasing the tile size very slightly. Do you think I have got this right or completely wrong? Could any pro's offer some advice to improve the layout? Any ideas with...- jrm
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Restoring 90 year old terra cotta floor tile
Hello, all, We are working on restoring two 5m square tiled floors, that have years of accumlation of wax put on by cleaning ladies (charwomen). One is on an outdoor covered porch, and one in a sun room. We are stripping off the old wax with a commercial product, but question whether to use...- tom15143
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grinding terracotta tiles to even surface
hi- new member here- We are dealing with a vast expanse of installed kiln-dried terracotta tiles, which are not laid evenly enough, and we wish to take off the high points and smooth the surface. Can someone recommend a method? Would a wet- polisher work? What type of disks could be used? Thanks!- Lauri Marder
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Introduction, glazed terracotta & natural stone
Hi to all. I've just registered and hope someone can help. My wife has been out shopping for new tiles for the bathroom and she's chosen glazed spanish terracotta wall and floor tiles with a natural stone border. She's told me that the border tiles will need to be sealed. I've fitted...- martin1c
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terracotta tiles
hi everyone ive got a terracotta job in a couple of weeks looking for advice on appropriate sealers dont really want to be going back to the job over 2/3day period sealing it or is there no alternative.- pete f
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bosch pcl 1 laser level, pole attachments????
i'v currently had the bosch pcl1 laser level for over a year now and it has been totally fine, but i was thinking of getting a new one due to the fact i can't always postion it where i need it sometimes like above door frames and windows etc... on the tripod it comes with, and would like one...- A.Tiler.
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Its official..... 365 Drills are nominated for an award for PORSADRILL at the TTA
Its official.... 365 Drills are finalists in the TTA awards for the best new innovation for 2008 More details here PORSADRILL was developed to improve the installation time of installers when drilling holes into very hard stone materials. The idea makes a previously difficult task...- Deleted member 1779
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stripping a terracotta floor?
My pal has had a terracotta floor laid in his kitchen but the tiler sealed it with hg golv satin polish (4 coats) without impregnating.Now my pal is starting to get grease stains in the polish. He's asked my to fix it but not had much dealing with terracotta before.Any of you lads know which...- tops111
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They've gotta be joking?????
http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/Internet/viewVacancy.do?selectedVacancy=0&ref=NCS/36393 How can you justify paying a tradesman this? :yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes: I hope he gets what he deserves :incazzato::incazzato::incazzato::incazzato:- tileform
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Advice on heated screed with terracotta - ditra mat?
hi all wanted a bit of advice on a floor i am quoting on. lovely big area on a new build, around 70 square metres. piped underfloor heating, which was screeded over last week. apparantly the screed has fibres in it which make it flexible. Now, the heating will probably not be run before the...- thegwads
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Cutting Terracotta-jigsaw?
Hi Got a small terracotta floor coming up, the tiles are 25mm thick. I was wondering wouldnt it be possible to cut them with a jigsaw? Has anyone ever done that? It'd cause less dust and be quicker than using a manual saw. cheers missyT- MTiler
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White substance o terracotta
Hi Based over in Tenerife and 2 wks ago we had some real bad rain and hailstones. Following this I have noticed the following - A white powder covering balcony areas to apartments The terraces are laid with terracotta tiles and it looks like a fine snow has settled Very difficult to remove...- swindon
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Gotta start somewhere!!!!
Hi to all in Forum. You know those small jobs, that just turn into a 'big' one, well that's why I'm here. Before Christmas when the kitchen ceiling started dripping, I thought is it the shower trap? On investigation it wasn't, so what was it? Well the water was only dripping when the shower...- Manx Viking
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