victorian floor

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    Victorian hallway tiling installation job - York

    Hello! I'm looking to have a new tiled hallway floor installed in a Victorian property I'm renovating in York and was wondering whether anyone might be able to undertake this job? It's a typical terraced-house entrance hallway and is roughly 5 metres square. I've been looking at patterns...
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    Victorian Tile restoration.

    Hi there, I am new to this forum... And was just after some advise. ( I know this topic has been done to death on the internet). However there is so much conflicting advise, I'm still unsure. Basically I wanted to restore my victorian tiles in my hall, they are in pretty good nick just a...
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    Potential pitfalls on victorian pathway

    Hi all, Ive just had a job in where the customer wants me to lay a victorian path. Its 10 x 1.3m onto concrete that was layed last October, it is flat but has a slight incline from the house to street. The main tiles are 100x100mm but the ones for the border are a quarter of the size. As this...
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    Victorian path tiles wanted

    Hi, could any of my fellow tilers suggest the best place and preferably the cheapest place to buy Victorian path tiles around the london area. Thanks for any replies lads
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    Victorian Style Hall Tile Job - Please Apply!

    Hi, I'm looking for a tiler in the West Midlands area that is familiar with laying Victorian style hall tiles with border. I have attached the floor plan of my hall and an email of the tiles i am tempted to buy. I have the option of sheeted tiles or single tiles. The difference in price is...
  6. si.cleary

    Polish up Victorian geometric floor

    Gentlemen, just looked at a Victorian floor in a hallway. The couple just ripped up the laminate flooring and to their surprise was a lovely geo floor. Its really dirty covered in grime as you can imagine! What would you recommend to clean these up? And give them a nice refurb? Any and all...
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    Victorian mosaic floor tiles - small porch needs tiling, LE2 area

    We have bought reproduction Victorian mosaic tiles (supplier: "Original Style") to fill a small porch area (1m x 1.5m). We have designed the pattern, laid out the tiles on paper - now need a tiler experienced in laying these small geometric tiles. The floor has been newly concreted & skimmed...
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    Tiling a Victorian fireplace - mosaic - advice needed.

    I'm tiling a Victorian fireplace in my own home. I started by ripping up the old tiles and using a latex compound to level the floor as well as concrete repair to fill the old cracks and holes. The fireplace has laminate flooring laid up to it at the moment with beading. I'm laying mosaic...
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    Victorian / Edwardian Porch Wall tiles

    Hi there! I am having a tough time to find replacement tiles for our front porch..so, I wanted to check if anybody sells, or know where to buy, Burgundy/Chestnut coloured, square, 3inch, wall tiles for the side of the outdoor porch. Thanks! Henrik
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    Victorian Floor-Grout

    Good Morning. I'm on with a black an d white chequered Victorian floor. Anybody suggest which coloured grout compliments it the best. Cheers Kevin
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    Victorian Bathroom floor Surbiton, Surrey.

    Here's a small Victorian bathroom floor completed just before Christmas. It was originally done by the tiler who did the walls but the client was so unhappy with it, it was condemned! It was ripped up and I was asked to re lay the floor. Now I'm going back to do a small cloakroom in a Geo tile...
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    Victorian Floor Kingston Upon Thames

    This was a floor I did last summer. It was part existing floor and part new build. Unfortunately no-one thought about the end result, even tho the builder knew a Geo floor was going down. The result being that the new extension was not built on the same line as the original building, meaning...
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    Cleaning small Black and white Victorian tiles

    Hi guys and girls I am looking for a project over Christmas. I have these black and white tiles in the outside and inside porch. One area is 1 m2 and the other about 2m2. So not big areas. The he advice that I am looking for is what products am I best used or clean them with, I don't have...
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    Cleaning victorian geometric

    Hi, Had a bit of nightmare at work. I poured some floor level onto a step which was to be tiled with new victorian geometric. I then went to get some lunch, when I came back the level had broken/leaked through the barrier I'd set up, and had run all over remaining victorian geometric floor...
  15. Sean Kelly

    Victorian tiles

    These Victorian tiles come on a paper mesh. In most cases the mesh has been doubled up on the back of the tiles. i.e. there are 2 overlapping layers of paper mesh holding the tiles together. There is the usual notice in the boxes of tiles stating that due to shrinkage of the mesh the tiles...
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    Victorian geo spares

    Does anyone know where can I get old Victorian geo replacements or get them made ??
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    Victorian geometric tiles - Andover, Hampshire, SP10

    Looking for a tiler experienced with preparing and laying victorian geometric floor tiles for a job in Andover, Hampshire near Salisbury and Newbury. Two metre squared area to be laid with victorian geometric floor tiles. We have some reclaimed tiles (uncleaned) but not enough to complete the...
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    Victorian encaustic tiles - can I use HG Golvpolish after Stain Stop?

    I have been trying to clean the Victorian encaustic tiles in my hallway. I got them a lot cleaner using KF Tile Restorer, which I followed with Stain Stop. However the Stain Stop has a matt finish and I'd like them slightly shiny if possible, and to try and bring out the colours a bit more...
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    Experienced Victorian quarry tiler needed!

    We have taken up the carpet in the hallway of our old house to expose the original black and buff quarry tiles. However, there are several problems. The tiles have at some point in the past been screeded over and it has proved impossible to remove most of the screed without cracking the tiles...
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    Victorian floor tiling course

    Anyone recommend a good Victorian floor tiling course? :)

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