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    Converting wet room to shower - what to do with existing waste

    Hi all, hopefully one or two of you can advise me, before I go out for quotes. I have an existing wetroom, 1300x1650 with drain in the middle of the room. Tiles are leaking, bottom of doorframe is rotting, everything in the room gets soaked when showering... In short, time to rip it out and put...
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    Wet Room with Anydryte Screed

    I have been building a house and my floor has wet UFH with Anydryte screed. With recomendations off the forum i will be laying Ditra matting with Anyfix and then marble tiles with a weber cement based adhesive. So the problem is the wetroom downstairs, the screed is anydryte but i shuttered...
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    wet room fixed screen size

    A client wants to install a wet room shower. The width of the shower area is 800mm. He ideally wants a fixed glass shower screen of 800/900mm. I have reservations about it being too short, Am i being paranoid or is it acceptable to get a much larger preformed base and go for the shorter screen...
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    Wet room floor problem

    We recently moved into a house which has an existing first floor wet room installed about 5 years ago via social services. The wet room and floor appeared fine for the first 12 months but a couple of weeks ago we noticed that the Altro vinyl flooring had come away from the wall below the...
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    Bathroom / Wet Room requiremet

    Hello, Looking for someone who can possibly quote me up a bathroom job.. I live in Bury (BL9) and need a small 3 x 4 m room sorting out. Looking at some wet room options but don't have a clue how much it is going costs. Any questions and advise then throw them at me. Thanks in advance.
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    Envelope cuts with a curved wet room screen

    As the title suggests, normally with a curved wet room screen I would advise mosaics . But the customer wants the floor tiles running into the tray. Has anyone any ideas how to do the cuts?
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    Ufh wet room refurb

    HI I have a wet room to do floor already tiled with under floor heating Is it possible to remove old tiles and reuse UFH Any info on this would be appreciated not had to deal with UFH before or creating complete wet room
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    Porcelanosa Firenze as floor tile in shower / wet room area

    I've a client who wants to use Porcelanosa Firenze Nacar (White) as a floor tile in his new shower area. I've explained that it is a wall tile and could be slippery in a shower but he insists on going ahead. Is this at all feasible or are there other good reasons for not doing this?
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    Wet room tray.

    1700x900mm wet room tray. Unfortunately I only had white rapid set! Marked out with frog tape. Ready for clean up and grout tomorrow, with either ivory or grey??? Customer ok with either. What does everyone else think?
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    Fitting an aqua4ma wet room tray former

    As promised. Fitted a Kudos, Aqua4MA tray former today. this was fitted to a newly laid 18 mm plywood floor over joists. I had already trimmed the joists to suit the waste. Inside the shower area I cut out the plaster/ plasterboard to 150mm high for the skirting former. 1 . The kit I ordered...
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    Raised Wet Room Enclosure - with shower door

    Hi All, I am hoping to get some opinions regarding my Wet-Room design. Essentially I have a corridor shaped downstairs cloakroom that currently has a regular shower tray and horrid fabric screen. I am about to install a new bathroom suite but want to find a way to make that room look bigger...
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    Thats Christmas Sorted (How not to do a wet room)

    A customer I refurbed a bathroom for 2 years ago has asked me to refurb their wet room in the basement. By an 5th Jan. Its a complete rip out and start again job, but I though it would be good to share the photos of the old installation with you. This was part of a refurbishment...
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    Wet Room Floor

    Hi. sorry not to sure how to post pictures on here? With regards to a wet room how do I clean off antislip mosaic tiles, looks like some sort of glue or sealant nothing gets these tiles clean, and the builders did not cover them up..any ideas. Also how do I know if the bottom of the...
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    Cutting mosaics for a wet room

    A customer of mine would like me to cut her 8 mm Matt finish ceramic floor tiles into 50 mm square mosaics ,for the base of the wet room floor! Power shower installed , and area has been tanked ! Is this advisable as surely it will expose 4 raw ceramic edges even if I do file them down and...
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    hi to all ;-) would like some advice tiling a wet room former...

    Hi all I have done quite a lot of tiling/ bathrooms over the years but not a wet room floor. I would very much like some advice on how to go about tiling onto the floor and topp dec former with offset waste. The floor has been lined with ply. I am thinking of using plastic ply as well before...
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    Wet room screen fixing

    I've almost completed my bathroom. The only thing left to install is a glass screen for the wet area. I have envelope cut tiles over a maxxus former. I've been looking at various pictures and most screens seem to just fit into a channel fixed on the wall then a support arm to brace between...
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    Shocking wet room installation

    Called by a couple to inspect their recently installed wet room. A plumber who decided to turn his hand to wet rooms led to this mess- Nothing good to say about the work! Lippage, messy grouting, uneven levels, bad cuts, no tanking (still wrapped up in spare room) spot fixing, poor layout...
  18. Chalker

    Diagonal cuts on wet room tray former

    Not sure how everyone else does this but this is the way I do em. 1. Cut out for drain and lay the rest of the tray tiles. 2. Lay masking tape from the corners, mark out and number cuts with a wax crayon. 3. Cut tiles with wet saw to create a gap and polish the cut edges ( now using new...
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    Re-tiling a wet room floor?

    Hello there everyone, I just have a question that I'm hoping to get some advice on if possible. I have been to look at a job where the customer would like their wet room floor re-tiled, I stated to them that I'm not sure what damage would happen to the substrates once I lift the tiles...
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    Sand & Cement wet room floor screed questions

    Hi All. Got to admit, having to use S&C to form a wet room floor is a first for me. I Got a call out of the blue from a builder who I have never come across ,quite a few other things setting off alarm bells....... Painter already in an adjoining room,waste pipes at a jaunty angle,promises of we...

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