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    SLC Top Tips Please

    Hi Top Tilers. Tiling a floor tomorrow (brazilian slate) about 8 sq m. Floor too uneven to make good with addy as I go, but haven't used slc for a while (long while) and could do with a couple of top tips learnt from your combined years of experience and expertise! It is a square utility room...
  2. Sean Kelly

    Can you tile on top of these tiles?

    This was the customers first question :yikes:!!! My 6th sense told me not to go out quoting tonight. The tennants only moved out 2 days ago and the landlord was not happy to find the bathroom in such a state. Water had been leaking through that slight gap in the tiles (created when 7 tiles fell...
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    bonding on top of sand and cement after dpc ?

    hi ! totaly unrelated to tiling but thought id ask :smilewinkgrin: . iam having a damproof course put in my house that iam trying to sell, victorian 3 bed semi £150,000 if anyones interested :lol:. had a guy round to quote me and i asked how he would render it etc, he said a sand and cement...
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    top tips on grouting techniques

    Hello We're putting down our first tiling job - a slate floor in our kitchen. I've had some top advice from people on the forum for the adhesive and laying of tiles - thank you:hurray:, but it's all been once i'd made mistakes that i needed to correct. So in advance - can anyone tell us the...
  5. M

    Tiling on top of tiles and on the ceiling

    been to see a beautiful home today to quote for wall and floor tiles in bathroom. Previous tiler put tiles up curved wall onto the ceiling. Customer wants me to tile on top of existing tiles including the ceiling ! Not a job I will touch as the whole tile on tile thing is an issue for me plus...
  6. R

    Work top & step polishing

    Although I have polished marble floors I have no idea what tools to use to polish steps, work tops, corners edges etc. Please can someone point me in the right direction, thanks
  7. M

    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...
  8. Dan

    Top Gears Stig To Be Revealed?

    ooOooOoo We might be finding out who the stig is. BBC News - Stig wrangle continues in private And Top gears' response: The Stig. He?s ours Transmission – BBC Top Gear
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    Top gear, Cruise and Diaz

    worth watching if you missed it, they actually can really drive!
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    give us a top tiling tip, please

    yes if you could give a top tip ( it don't matter if we know it } you know a trade secret that has helped you over the competition over the year's!!! go on share it with the Tiler's on this forum :thumbsup: time to put a bit back!! this could run!!!!:hurray::hurray::hurray:
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    travertine (12mm) )on top Electric U/F heating

    Hi I've forgotton my password sorry! Just about to organise 145m2 of an old farmhouse in France to be ideally covered in what they call a 'Classic medium Travertine' 12mm from Turkey. The make of sub floor is 100mm concrete slab, 53mm insulation electric mats covered with a 35 -40mm top...
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    Questioning my preperation and tiling on top of devimat

    Firstly, my apologies to everyone for my method of questioning, I have a problem with a customer of which i'm pretty much 100% sure what the problem is , i'm as certain that all of you will probably agree with me. However, if you'll indulge me a little My first questions would be on...
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    Top row of tiles at uneven ceiling

    Hi everyone, I've just joined and need some advice before finishing off my bathroom tiling. I've tiled my whole bathroom in large white bumpy tiles floor nearly to the ceiling. There won't be any skirting and eventually there will be large black polished floor tiles laid up to the white wall...
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    Plyboard on top of old adhesive

    Folks - I am a handyman so not an accomplished tiler. A customer has lifted her bathroom tiles but has had problems removing all of the old adhesive from a chipbpoard floor. It is patchy and the majority of the old adhesive is still in place. She says she will have a go removing the rest but I...
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    Top Class Tiler for Special Contracts London and the South East

    Here goes:- My special mosaic man/tiler has finally decided to cut back on his work at the age of 74! For this reason I will need from time to time, someone spot on with our special works on the ceramic and mosaic side. I dont mind splitting this between one mosaic person and a speciality...
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    Tile over the top of polished porcelain

    Hi, Ive been a member a while but this is my first post. I would like some advice on whether I can tile over polished porcelain as the customer would prefer it if I could do that rather than pull the whole floor up. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Ben.
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    Top Forum

    I have just recently come across this forum and i think its great. I am a self employed tiler in Ealing London and always looking for extra work. I thought it couldn't hurt to sign up. Would appreciate any leads, and always willing to give advice where possible. Cheers Gary
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    chris roe , top fella

    i sold some stuff to chris roe today and what a nice genuine fella he is. he's a regular on here and an aquaintance of sir ramic (neale). chris, is up the wall doing up one of his properties but we shared a cuppa tea and he gave me some great tips on getting slc really flat and smooth as one...
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    Ditra on top of Devi??

    Hi, new here and some way through my new extension. Has come to tiling and UFH. Q: I have. New extension has water UFH, screed top and I plan to install Ditra mat prior to tiling. We have created open plan living by knocking the old kitchen and dining room into one and also open planned with new...
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    Your Top 10 Totty!!

    in no particular order......... 1. angelina jolie 2. kirsty gallagher 3. caprice 4. liz hurley 5. jenny frost 6. kathy lloyd .......80's page 3 bird 7. pamela anderson (bay watch era) 8. cheryl cole 9. danni minogue 10. sienna miller

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