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Bathroom fitter says this is the correct way to lay tiles and nothing in the rule book says he can’t dot and dabb

I've recently had a kitchen installed and there is tiling up to the extractor fan and cabinets (pictured). The tiles are light green (not as light as pictured) and the grout is charcoal. Unfortunately the grout really shows up how messy the titling looks, especially as it meets the...

Please help... I have numerous large format floor tiles that, when tapped, sound hollow as if there are voids underneath. Our builders, and their tiler, are trying to tell me this is ok. Everything I read says it should be close to 100% adhered. I'm at my whits end with this... And to make...

hello. I am installing a new shower/bath. the long edge will be against a finished hardie backer wall and one side edge against a solid concrete wall. what is the best way to tile and seal?. should I cut out the hardie backer so it sits on the bath lip or leave it so bath is flush with the...

Been to a house this week. The owner wants a tiling quote to tile the ground floor of a house with 60x60 porcelain tiles over screeded wet ufh. The problem I have is that the 80sqm of ground floor consists of 8 rooms mostly over floorboards and a kitchen over a concrete floor. The owner is...

Hello, I'm soon to be tiling my bathroom floor. It was tiled by a previous owner directly on to T&G floorboards, and miraculously no tiles ever cracked. The floor is quite stable and surprisingly level; I've replaced some damaged floorboards and removed the previous flexible adhesive, and...

Good evening. Could someone kindly give me an idea of the process of commissioning water fed under floor heating which has been set in sand and cement screed. It’s fully dried and is ready to be commissioned record I may it and tile it. I’ve got some knowledge but it would be great to gain some...

Tiling around window:. The tiles are 60X30 10mm porcelain. The wall tiles will be cut and fit around the shape of the window and then the reveal tiles will go on overlapping with a butt joint. (The tiles are the same colour throughout so will look better than trim I think). So, there will be...

Hi, We have had a screed (anyhdrite) with wet underfloor heating put down recently. After a few weeks they turned on the heating and then after a few days a small dark spot appeared, this grew in size to a 10cm elongated circle. There is metal pipe coupling directly below. We suspected a leak...

Hopefully just a quick question. Kitchen skirting base boards are already on the kitchen walls and have been installed over the top of existing ceramic tiles. When the ceramic tiles are removed there will be a gap under the skirting boards. 1/ Should I cut the existing skirting boards with a...

I'm tiling a small bathroom floor (8'x10') which is not level (1/2 low at the one end). I plan on using the TEC EZ floor level and then putting go-board on top of that. I'll thin-set the go-board in to the subfloor and leveled Tec EZ floor area. . When reading the go-Board for flooring...

Hello! New to the forum and my first post on this after doing a bit of searching. I'd be interested to know your thoughts/experience of fitting BAL Board or Hardiebacker under the shower tray. The reason I ask is that with the build-up i'm looking at, if I installed the shower tray on the ply...

Has anyone used the Q Board for floors? I was going to put 10mm Q Board over wooden floor boards and then lay floor tiles onto it. I've been researching the product (s) and it appears to be a good system and fairly inexpensive too. Has anyone had any experience using this product on a floor and...

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Hi, I have been asked to tile under and behind a log burning stove... I am happy with the hearth, it is a concrete plinth that I can tile directly onto but the problem for me is the back panel behind the stove. The board that is there at the moment is very flexible which I have told them...

We converted our garage and building control are insisting I install a DPM over the screed (even though the DPM runs under the concrete raft foundation of the house). I will be tiling over the screed so looking for the simplest option. I could get a tin of blackjack and paint that on but...

Just wondering what height to cut clear - Tile + How much for adhesive? The tiles are 59cm x 59cm porcelain and 9-12mm thick. I have a 20mm trowel. I think that is 15mm height so applied at an angle presumably will be somewhere between 9 and 12mm (depending on angle)... is there an official...

hello, I am planning on fitting a preformed wet-room tray and would like to actually see some in the flesh so to speak. I can see them in catalogues and on-line but all the bathroom shops I have contacted don't have them in stock they only order them in specially. Can anyone please advise on...

We have wet underfloor heating and a screed down on our new kitchen floor. We bought crack matting after reading up to put down under or limestone tiles. Research said we needed to use full screed of flexible adhesive and then the crack matting, then adhesive and the tile. The tiler has then...

Hi All. We have recently undertaken a major house project which included installation of under floor heating throughout the ground floor. An incident last week revealed unexpected weaknesses in the kitchen floor which we have now found out (from our builder) is down to the method (dot and dab)...