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    How to maintain your angle grinder

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rShilSQ7dGk
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    How to pick the right colour grout?

    I'm putting down some light buff / sandstone coloured ceramic floor tiles. It's a big area so need to get the grout colour right first time. The tiles are rectangular medium format 36cm x 28 cm (14" x 11"), laid out in a 50 / 50 brick stretcher bond pattern. I'm not looking to make any bold...
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    How to cut Quartz 600 by 400

    What cutter would I need to cut Quartz 600 by 400 ? :smilewinkgrin:
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    Wonky window reveal cuts - how to fix/cover?

    Hi Guys, I've almost finished my first tiling job (complete bathroom) and I'm pretty pleased with it, apart from one thing - around the window. Basically around the window is where I started laying and i made a huge mistake by thinking that the edging strips sat over the tile, not realising...
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    black absolute marble... how to polish?

    Hi, im in process of tiling a warm room for a client in black absolute marble but where the top tile meets the downward tile on the seating area ive been asked to bevel the raw corners and polish to make as shiney as the face surface.... ive done similar with travertine but never marble.... how...
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    How to treat these walls?

    Hi guys I am renovating the kitchen currently, and having stripped out the old kitchen i am left with these walls. There was a little bit of damp plasterboard behind the sink, and ive pulled the damp bits of wall away and whats left seems pretty solid, with exception of the window sill. The...
  7. Sean Kelly

    How to price Victorian tiling.

    I’ve been asked to quote for laying a Victorian floor on the ground floor of a block of luxury flats. I asked a few questions and have been told that this is the only way in/out of the flats. The base is concrete slab and the square meterage is approx. 7sqm including 2 steps. The customer says...
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    uneven floor borards in the centre ? How too make level??

    Hi, I have a slight problem on the job I'm starting next week, It's only a 4 mtr bathroom floor ,tiles going down are granite, floor is floor boards at the min with about 1 ft of concrete at the door way, floor has little movment when I jump on it. One of the problems is that when I lay my...
  9. Dan

    How to make the forum busier

    This isn't a thread I'd usually post as it sounds a bit needy. But it keeps being mentioned that the forum feels quieter than it has been in the past, and you're probably right. Other than a plonker or two blaming the fact the forum has sponsors, most of you have hit the nail on the head. It's...
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    How to cut fixed porcelain tiles up to door frame?

    I'm not a tiler. Hope that's OK! We had a new kitchen, and the builder laid the porcelain tiles. After he'd finished (and we'd paid him), we saw the line by the living room door wasn't straight. He apologised, and offered to cut it straight with an angle grinder, but he can't get to the edges...
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    how to clean the charcoal grout, help please

    Hello Does anybody know how to clean the charcoal grout from the porcelain tiles? Someone told me the that there are some LTP cleaning liquid that is good for that. I googled it and there are a few different ones. Which one should I go for? Thanks Here are BEFORE and AFTER photos:
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    How to get a younger woman

    Bob is a 68-year-old extremely successful and wealthy widower. He shows up at the Country Club with a breathtakingly beautiful and very sexy 25-year-old blonde-haired woman who knocks everyone's socks off with her youthful sex appeal and charm. She hangs over Bob's arm and listens intently to...
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    How to repair chipped edges in travertine

    So are there any recommended products out there to repair small chips on the edges of travertine tiles. After installing, I have noticed a few have now got chips on some of the edges. Don't think they are the best quality. Haven't sealed them yet and was wondering if something like Colourfill as...
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    How to do a bath access panel

    How would i go about this? I will be tiling the side of my bath in a brickwork layout. It has a wooden frame already around the bath.
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    How to make new marble look old

    I have been asked to quote for laying a new Carrara marble floor. Tiles will be cut from slab in to diamond shapes which will interlock with border. no problem there but client wants the marble to be stained to make it look like it has been down for hundreds of years. i have heard of companies...
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    How to avoid chipping tiles?

    Hello all, I'm using a wet cutter on dark brown ceramic tiles for the floor. I'm not happy with the finish, sometimes the cuts are leaving small chips to the edge. Is there a way I can avoid this? Thanks.
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    How to get the wooden sub floor level?

    Hi guys, The room is an "L" shape. Horizontal part of L is approx. 1600mm long by 900mm wide where the floor former and shower area is to go. The vertical part of the L is approx. 1200mm wide (but only on the floor, one of the walls angles away) and 3200mm long and is outside the wet area. It...
  18. C

    how to prepare this kitchen area

    I have this kitchen floor I want to tile but I an not sure how to prepare it. From the photo you will see the main are has quarry tiles that has been screeded with a self leveling compound. For the most part this is ok and intack except where the hole shown in photo is..The area behind the...
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    How to let a customer down!

    Whilst I have never priced a job to not get it, I fear if I price high on this job I might just end up getting it! There is just too many things going against this job! 35m2 kitchen floor, Kitchen fitter in as we speak, 600mm x 600mm pale coloured polished porcelain with transit wax, Customer...
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    How to work out a brick pattern

    Hello all, just trying to work out how to lay out my tiles, in the bathroom, in a brick pattern. I have 2 walls that are 166cm wide, 1 wall 104cm wide and 1 wall that is 179cm wide, the height is 231cm and the tiles that I am using are 25 x 20cm. I can see that the 2 walls that are 166cm will...

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