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    New tiled floor buildup

    Hi all, currently renovating my 70’s property, I have a suspended timber floor with 18mm floorboards. I want some electric underfloor heating with porcelain tiles to finish. There’s a small amount of bounce in the floor, my plan so far is as follows; Existing floorboards 18mm ply overboard for...
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    Damaged and plasterboard with some movement. Can it be tiled?

    Help please from any tilers. The plumbers made a mistake and had to rerun pipes after plastering. They’ve now patched the walls up of the shower room like this. Some of the pieces have movement on the wall. The filer is due tomorrow to tile the shower room with 60cm x 60cm porecelain tiles. The...
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    Historic, Striking Tiled Pub Achieves Listed Status - From TTA

    Historic, Striking Tiled Pub Achieves Listed Status - From TTA A historic city centre pub, known for its “breathtaking” exterior adorned with glazed ceramic tiles, has been awarded listed status. The Craven Arms, located at the corner of Upper Gough Street and Blucher Street in Birmingham, was...
  4. blackarrow1990

    Unevenness of the wall to be tiled

    Hello, I am a noob trying to tile our shower. Since the old tiles were taken off, some of that wall material has been taken off as well, so everything had to be smoothed. After smoothing with some cement compound and waterproofing "mud" layer I measured the evenness of the walls. On 1 m of...
  5. Lou

    Show us your DIY tiled projects!

    As stated we love seeing your DIY stuff! Take a couple of photos and show off your project here!!! I'll go first with my dad's handiwork tiling the bathroom!
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    Two tiles lifting in middle of tiled floor in condo

    Walked into our condo in Orange Beach Alabama and found two tiles popped loose from the floor and raised as if they had been pushed together to form a tent. What would cause this?
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    Change of level to provide access for wheelchair

    Has anyone done any work like this? We are having a pvc door removed between dining and utility room and replaced with an internal door. The aim is to create a level access for a wheelchair. However, there is a change of level 50mm. Builders want to create a level/shallow tiled ramp. What would...
  8. Ollie_selby

    Large gap in corner of tiled shower

    Looking for some advice of tiled my en suite and coming towards the end and gap down the edge is getting bigger as I go higher and looks as though will be about a 20mm gap What do I do?
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    Sealing a newly tiled shower area

    This is a rather novice question I admit, but I would appreciate some advise. My tiler has grouted the corner of the shower wall, and between the shower tray and the tiles. He also grouted into the ceiling. Is this ok from a waterproofing point of view? I feel uneasy as I thought that grout...
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    Is this overkill for a tiled floor?

    Hello all, Hoping that once again I can get some good advice on here, you were invaluable when I installed a new shower.. So the kitchen floor tiles have been taken up and remaining adhesive removed. The concrete floor 'looks' dry and feels fine, if not cold at times. Prior to the tiles being...
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    Crazy gap between shower metal frame and tiled wall

    Hello and thanks for your time. When the shower metal frame (that will hold the glass wall) is placed plumb along the tiled wall, you can see that the tiled wall is uneven. The top and bottom touches the tile wall but in the middle there is a huge 2cm gap between the metal and wall. Basically...
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    ADVICE - HOW TO FIX A FULL HEIGHT TILED CORNER

    60 X 40 CM PORCELAIN TILES FLOOR TO CEILING LAID IN LANDSCAPE COLUMNS . THE CORNER WALL NEXT TO DOOR OF BATHROOM AND FORWARD FROM SHOWER ENCLOSURE IS UNEVEN . EXISTING TILES WERE STRIPPED OUT & NEW BOARDING & PLASTER SKIM. THIS WAS DONE TO ENSURE STRAIGHT/TRUE/FLAT WALLS . OTHER THAN STRIPPING...
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    Tiled floor not cured properly - help!

    Hi guys, sorry for the clunky thread title... Just over a year ago we had a side return/knock-through extension project done on our home in South London - end result was a 40sqm +/- kitchen diner space, which has turned out really well asides from the tiles... We went with 600 x 1200...
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    Specifying width of upstand to match final tiled splashback

    Hi, we are having a worktop fitted and have been asked how thick to make the upstand. We are tiling above the upstand but haven't chosen the tiles yet. They are probably going to be 8 or 9mm thick. Shortlist of options are 75 x 300 X 9mm or 320 x 625 X 9mm or 130 x 130 X 8mm. We would like the...
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    Bathroom window and half tiled wall

    Hi. I am going to be filing around a window which is very close (about 70mm to the adjacent wall. That wall next to it will be half tiled. My question is would it look best if I aim to run the grout line dead on the bottom of the window and stop the tiles on the other wall at that height or...
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    New build bath tiled with mastic and no waterproofing?

    Hi there, long time lurker, first time poster. I’ve recently moved in to a new build property which looks like it was built on a late friday afternoon. I wasn’t keen on the bathroom tiles so decided to redo the whole bathroom walls and floors. After removing the bath wall tiles I noticed...
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    Mastik failing quickly in marble tiled shower

    Hi, I recently had a contractor strip out and replace all the Mastik in my shower as it had failed. It was a very poor job and not colour matched. The new contractor did a good job, or appeared tom with a matched colour (Jasmine) but less than two months on it has completely failed, coming away...
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    Advice on new tiled shower stall - thermal insulation, embedding shower pan

    Hi, New to the forum. I'm going to be installing a new corner, shower unit with tiled walls, glass doors and acrylic shower pan, as part of a bathroom re-modelling project. I'm not a pro. Would appreciate expert advice on several points. The new shower will replace an old 'one piece' molded...
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    Advice for plywood tiled wall.

    Hi - we would very much appreciate some advice. In October 2020 we had a sole trader come in to rectify and redo some previous poor work in our bathroom. In the process he tiled two walls (the other walls are not tiled). One of those walls is the actual plaster wall and is believed to be fine...
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    Hidden tiled door ideas/sugestions

    Hello everybody. I'm going to quote a bathroom , in which there is a boiler on the corner, and they would like to cover it with a hidden door blended with the tiles. Any suggestion on which kind of hinges can I use ? Other tip/ idea would be appreciate. Thanks in advance!

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