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    Travertine tiles - how to repolish

    Hi - we just installed some polished travertine tiles which were finished to a high gloss. Topps tiles gave us grout cleaner to use with them which has taken the polish off and left a white residue or has bleached all of the tiles. They assured us it was suitable for travertine but i don't think...
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    How to start a fight

    One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift... The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!" And that's how the fight started...
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    Woopeee!!!Found how to adjust my D24000 !!

    Just by accident I discovered a very important adjustment on my D24000. The blade has always been over to one side of the exit-slot that it passes through when it has cut through the tile and was scraping into the aluminium more and more. By sheer accident whilst cleaning it down after a job I...
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    how to fix down a wet tray former

    can some one please tell the best to fix down the wet tray former it is one from wet decs i no there is some screws holes in it but should i use some gripfill along the joists as well
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    hubby's laptop infected with Security Tool malware - any ideas how to get rid?

    My husband's laptop is infected with the 'Security Tool' malware program, anyone any experience with how to get rid of it? He does use Avast, but it got through anyhow, and now he's pretty stuck...:thumbsdown: any ideas for him? I googled but most are removal software selling sites... which...
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    How to check for voids under tiles

    Another piece of advice given to me is to check this by tapping the tile with my knuckles. When I tap the middle, most tiles sounds solid but off centre on some I get a sort of hollow sound. Majority of the hallway tiles sound hollow in the middle. Any cause for concern? What will happen? How to...
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    How to fill gap at top of walls i have tiled

    Hi all. Im tileing my bathroom,done 2 walls floor to ceiling so far . Finished first wall on a whole tile at the top with only 2mm to spare so had no cuts. Thought great,what a great fit . On the second wall the ceiling turns out isnt level and i have a varying gap at one end of half inch and...
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    how to look after a tile cutter?

    Hi, After chewing it over for a while, i just bought a dewalt D24000. It a beauty, and looks the nuts. i'm young and stupid and need some advive on how to look after it?????? obviously cleaning it, but what else can i do to make sure its going to last??? thanks, ross
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    How to build a grand piano

    Well, not a complete view of it! But this video is a great look behind the scenes at the Steinway facility in NYC. If you have ever done any work with woodworking tools, you'll enjoy watching this video.:thumbsup: I got it through NetFlix. Note By Note | PBS
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    not sure how to work this one

    hey all, just wondering how everyone else would price this, its caught me out a little bit, its picking up where someone left off a few years ago. what needs doing is: Tile window reveal 4 cuts around the cistern...
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    How to calculate your grout requirements

    Hi guys, I know many of you may know this already with your preffered grouts but I have seen many posts over the years on the forum when people are asking how to calculate how much grout they need. For the guys that dont know, this is how we do it; (Tile width 300MM + tile length 300MM) x...
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    How to build a curve or cove in a shower

    I was just cleaning out a few pictures and found these. This might help someone here to do something new on one of their jobs. I don't have a complete set of photos step-by-step, but this should be enough to give you the idea of what to do. We had floated this shower (rendered) and roughed...
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    How to remedy out of level window reveals

    My last job i had some really bad window reveals so thought i'd do my bit and take some pics on how to rectify them. No doubt some will use the same method but for those that dont, here goes. This is what i was faced with and the thought of them being packed out with adhesive didnt really suit...
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    How to tile a fibreglass balcony?

    Went to look at a job today...external fibre glass flat roof, ceramic 30x30 tiles have completely delaminated from surface, grout all cracked and missing...no adhesive stuck to the fibreglass all peeled off with ease. How would you recommend re tiling this to prevent the same happening? Bal...
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    How to remove cement type adhesive from overtiled floor

    We are in the process of restoring our 1920's house. There is the original tiled floor in the hall which the previous owners had tiled over with an attempt at recreating the original Victorian style floor. The overtiling was awful, so i've carefully removed the tiles to see what state the...
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    How to finish tiles against wall....

    Hi, I am tiling 3 walls of my bathroom and the floor, but one wall will be just be painted. I'm tiling the floor with quartz tiles. Should I put skirting along the untiled wall? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks
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    • how how to tile tile tiles tiling guide usa wall
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    how to get tenders in?

    hi there recieved a few tenders lately and ive won a small 1. i got a friend to do the tendering who has quite a large firm. so im just wondering whats the process of geting more in?? is they some way of geting tenders of the net etc... thanks abstract:thumbsup:
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    Tools: Learn how to diamond drill very hard porcelain tiles with this NEW VIDEO 365

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    Trying to show 21 year old how to grout, Grrrr!!

    I have a young lad with me on this commercial job, he is a nice lad but so slow. We got to the grouting stage today and I got two buckets ready so that I could do two separate mixes for both of us. I mix everything up in one bucket and then see him with a small spacer bucket so I ask him "what...
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    • grout how how to tile old show tile grout tiling guide usa
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Sloping Ceiling - how to protect from water/steam?

    Hi A neighbour of mine has had a new bathroom fitted & tiled (not by me :mad2:) & is worried about water/steam damaging his sloping ceiling opposite the shower head. The bathroom is in the attic of a cottage, it's a power shower over a bath & the sloping ceiling at the head of the bath is beamed...

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