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hi all please were desperate need help asap x my partner and i are re tiling the bathroom ,we are complete novices but have done well so far ,but come to the window where the corners are 10mm out bringing the tile to stick out and uneven , above the window is 15mm out and goes into like a bump...

Hello peeps just a quick question: Looked at job today, bathroom floor 5m, floorboards, solid but big dip in centre. Can i fix Durabase to them and SLC over the top? Cheers, Jamie.

Hi, first off I live in Spain and am building my own house. I have jobs which are sometimes to large for me to complete alone and employ local companies ( wherein lies my problems) I had my floor laid with cement screed in January (over UFH) the finished result is not satisfactory to say the...

Hi all - great forum but my brain is aching - can you help. I have had 2 tilers to quote laying tiles on my kitchen, toilet and pantry which is a mixture of floorboards and concrete. There is marmoleum down currently which is lifting and cracking all over the place. I'm told the floor is very...

Morning all, I'm about to do my second DIY tiling project but I just have a quick question that I could do with the thoughts of some more experienced people on. This is the only thing slowing me down in my new found most favourite hobby, but with some help I'm sure I'll be off and running...

I have an old very uneven concrete base which I need to self level then tile. The Everyread self leveling compound says that I should use PVA for bonding. I've seen others comment that you don't need to prime first. Can somebody please give me a definitive answer? Thanks for reading.

Hi, Im doing a kitchen floor around 13sqm at the back door to the other door there is about a 20mm difference. would you follow the floor or make sure its totally spirt level flush which would mean the tiles would have a 20mm raise at the door? Cheers Paul

I am currently doing a job where the wooden floor is slightly "off level" in that it slopes away slightly about a metre from the wall ...the flooring is wooden floorboard and these are to b overlaid with marmox, but im thinking that when the boards are secured down they will follow the contour...

Hi all Just joined and must say I'm impressed with all the info on here. So my question shouldnt take much answering . I' tiling my kitchen wall and its pretty even until I come to the end (an external corner) and it drops away by 10-15mm in the space of say 300mm from the end . So was...

Hi, my bathroom walls were half plaster half tile,having removed the tiles I am left with half plaster and half very uneven wall ,what is the best method to strighten them for a DIYer

Hi, I'm new to the forum. We recently hired a Tiler who I got in touch with through another forum and he has done a poor job. What happened was we were quoted £*** by one company to do the splash-back in our newly fitted kitchen, I asked on this other forum in tiling section how much it...

Hello, Start tiling in the morning in my own bathroom, I've put my battens round, and mocked up my first row, all the way round, I was checking the walls out, and one wall which is dot and dabbed, protrudes about 8mm right in the centre where my window centre line is, allowing my level to...

I've used some latex self-levelling compound to even out a concrete floor prior to tiling. Unfortunately the surface hasn't ended up as flat as I was hoping, with ridges left in some places where the flow ended. I had to pour the self-levelling compound from two different corners of the room...

Ok, what in everyones opinion is the best way to deal with walls that arnt flat? Up to now ive just used a thicker bed by applying addy to back of tile but am sure this isnt giving me a full bed required in wet areas, but time and time again i find the joiners ply out a wall but constantly find...

I have been converting a room into a bathroom/wetroom. Floor is suspended with ply, wediboard & ufh. I have just done a Mapei Fiberplan SLC pour to cover the heating mats. I have been checking the levels today and the floor isnt as even as I'd hoped :( - there are low points, the worst of...

Doing some renovations on an old property. We have knocked a few internal walls down to make larger room and want to install new floor. The area to be covered has four different existing floors. 1. wooden floorboard 2. concrete floor with some kind of screed and amtico vinyl on top 3...

I need someone to fix a newly laid granite floor in Buckingham. It will all have to come up as it is so uneven and out of alignment (see pics). The room is 13sq m and fairly square with one doorway. Can someone quote me to fix or re lay new tiles (Polished Granite absolute black 40cmx40cm)

Time and again when tiling floors either timber (ply) floors or old concrete floors I struggle to work out the best way to correctly approach uneven floors. If for instance when looking at a concrete floor (recent example) of 22sqm with an area of particulary high point compared to the rest of...

Could anyone help with some advice. The polished granite floor we had laid is uneven and wonky and the whole lot needs to come up and be re laid. How do I go about lifting the tiles (if possible) and re laying them? Or have we lost our money and have to buy new tiles? Many thanks

I will shortly be installing a quadrant shower enclosure in the corner of my bathroom. I have clad one wall with AQUAPANEL which is absolutely flat and level. The other wall is pink bare pink plaster (I sanded off the paint). I was going to simply prime the pink plaster with MAPEI primer G...