My new laid screed floor has been down for 4 months and from reading up I probably need to seal it prior to tiling.
Unfortunately I cannot get hold of the builder to find out whether it was a cement screed or flow/anhydrite type screed. Is there a visual way to tell (ie color/finish) that would...
Hello all.
I was hoping for some help with UFH issue. There seems to be many posts with similar issues but no answer fits all.
I have had builders round to do a lot of work at my house. Part of it was digging out the floor and laying a wet UFH system.
The room is approx 34sqM
Damp proof...
Coopobot
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I recently posted a question concerning some 600 x 600 x 10 limestone tiles I have fixed to my chimney breast. These are coming away for the 3rd time. They were fixed using a Vitcas heat resistant adhesive and grout. The answers I got from the forum were not very helpful, so I contacted Vitcus...
Hi all,
Took down some old tiles in my bathroom and plasterer came round to plaster the walls with gypsum thistle bond plaster, was going to plaster myself but it would have been the first time so i thought i'd watch someone instead - i know this plaster is not good when it comes to water (from...
Suzan
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Last year when tiling bathroom I used mapei ultracolor plus limestone (the one which has all the bells and whistles written on packaging) , it wasn't the nicest to work with,was patchy/had colour bleed and a year later it has lost its colour/washed off in wetroom area -not really impressed with...
I have 4 !!! different safety glasses, all of them sweat/fog up like crazy and make me blind and unable to see anything as soon as I start doing something, some of them were very cheap,some of them expensive, but all fog up.. Doing any kind of work/fixing car is just impossible with them as they...
Hi
I wondered if there was a heavy duty type of scrim tape/method for going over areas that have potential to move and crack tiles?
I'm going to tile on an old concrete floor that that has a crack but I have also ran my hot and cold under the floor and wondered if there was anything I could...
Due to the size of the job and its a nicely decorated Apartment . If I can use a good adhesive for Porcelain.It would be easier .
Floor is concrete .Walls probably block and skimmed .Mixer wall will be new backing boards etc
But I have been using bag Mix for years ! So have no idea of Tub...
LJD
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Dont know if any other tilers do this now, but all the tilers I used to know and I still do. When finished tiling a bathroom, put a couple of spare tiles under the bath behind bath panel if there is room so that if ever required another tiler will know to have a look for them there first before...
Starts today !!
I absolutely love rugby, played all the time in my younger days.
So any predictions?
Going to be some cracking games especially with a lions tour this year players will want to show what there made of..
Hi lads,
Just been back to a wet room job i done over a year ago and two of the wall tiles (opposite wall to the shower) going into the corner have slight crack lines on them, you can see them but can't feel any lipage, (i used webber low dust rsf) I will replace them no problem...
nalla
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Morning lads, hope your all well. I'm heading to NZ in june and was wondering if anyone knows any tilers over there? I noticed a tilersforum.co.nz but its not had any activity for a few years. Will be flying to Christchurch but open to mooch about a bit. Just wanna try get something setup first...
Will be tiling a wet room up to 1.8m high with newly plaster above. Some of the walls below arent that great and im thinking installing no more ply right around. What i want to know, seeing as ill be 6mm out from the wall and ill be tiling upto the 1.8m height, is there a bead that will cover...