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    tiling on wood

    bathroom floor tongue and groove floorboards if i use backer board how thick and how best to fix? Barry
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    ply wood ??

    hey guys, been trawling through the forum and have come across an re-occuring difference of opinions on if you can tile straight on to plywood. i Can see the advantage of priming the base side and then screwing down but does this substrate not expand and contract over time, would this be a case...
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    Granite tiles on ply wood floor

    Hi Guys Just want to pick your brains if i may... I have a bathroom floor that has had the floor boards ripped up and replaced with 18mm marine grade ply. The floor area is about 2.5M x 2.5M. My question is the ply is not one sheet and as 2 smaller cut outs, could this cause me any...
    • BARONARMY
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    • floor floor tiling granite ply tile tiles usa wood
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Focus wood stain

    Focus really need to rename their wood stain, I finished off the final bit of fencing but didn't have enough of my normal stain/preserver to do 2 coats so I nipped to Focus and got a cheapie for first coat. It said "dark wood" as the colour. A more apt description would be "sunburned pink...
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    Which adhesive for porcelain tiles and ply wood ??

    Tiles 40 x 40cm, ply wood is 6mm. Which adhesive will be the best ? Thank you for your comments.
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    • adhesive ply porcelain porcelain tile porcelain tiles tile tile adhesive tiles usa which wood
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    which wood for my floor, 25mm Ply, or chip THEN ply

    Hi guys - 5m2 bathroom floor - will be sat on 35x35 mm batons, onto a concrete floor - they arent that well held down to the concrete, i must admit - ill give them all a good smear of no-nails prior to laying the floor. Tiles are 600x300mm polished porcelin - not cheap either !!! should i...
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    wood effect tiles, on a kitchen wall

    hey all, so....iv'e got this customer this month thats wants something a little different. Thats fine by me!! So what she wants is a modern country cream style kitchen, i've already laid the floor (rectangle nautral stone look porcelain,20m2) and the kitchen is being installed at the moment by...
    • bradburytiling
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    • bathroom kitchen tile tiles usa wall wood wood effect tiles
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Wood & stone.

    Got these pic from a stone cleaning forum, anybody layed a floor like this before or seen one..looks interesting!!!
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    tiling wood floor to concrete

    Hi all, i've got a kitchen floor to tile (solid floor boards) but a small section (about 6 foot by 3) has been concreted. i'm screwing 1/2 inch ply on the floor boards and bringing the concrete level with slc but what i need to know is what mesh do i need to put over the join between the 2...
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    Plasterboard on wood frame?

    I have an artistic mosaic job to do, as a free hanging feature, fixed onto a plastered wall (in a barn conversion) with possibly sandstone behind. The feature will be a combination of mosaic over a 3d inlaid casting plaster background. I would like to use plasterboard as substrate for economy...
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    dura ci vs. dura wp/tilesafe on wood floor?

    i'm a bit confused about what to tank my 22mm/25mm plywood floor with in my wet room. from what i've read a decoupling membrane should be used to stop the tiles from cracking due to lateral movement of the wood. however, many people seem to be using tilesafe or dura wp on the floor, which...
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    Levelling a sloping wood floor

    Hi peeps Whats the best way to level a sloping wood floor before tiling it? A customer has a kitchen floor he wants re-tiling that slopes to the right, and this time he'd like it made level. The area to be tiled is 2.6m2 with kitchen units on two sides, the lowest side sloping to a wall. The...
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    Plasterboard or wood?

    Hello, Thanks for earlier advice now I have had walls plastered and waiting for them to dry out, I was left by the plasterer a bit of plasterboard and he said it may be worth putting over the wood I currently have boxing in my pipes before putting tiles on. The area is small and on the floor so...
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    what ply wood for flooring ?

    Hi, would exterior 12mm ply be ok for tiling onto floor, its a small shower room, only 1m x 1m, will only get wet when someone steps out of shower. There is currently floorboards down, i was going to take them up and put the ply straight onto the joists. Thanks
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    wood burner

    Hi new to this site, i have a wood burner and wish to add tiles to the wall surrounding it the tiles will be right againd the side of the wood burner will ceramic be ok or does it have to be porcelain, the wall does get hot infact its been hot enough to crack the plaster John
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    Obtaining a glazed finish to wood effect ceramics

    Hi ya all. Just had a look at a customers 2 bed flat which has been laid with ceramic tiles that give a wooden floor effect throughout. The tiles have a matt look about them and the customer wants to know if it would be possible to change the look to a glaze finish. I ve explained to customer...
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    Metric wood screws?

    For Strumerman or any other chippys here!:thumbsup: How are wood screws sized in the UK and Europe? My customer just got some hinges for a door, and while they are standard size for the US**** (dimensions of the hinge leaves are in inches) the screws seems to be non-imperial. Our standard for...
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    If vertified tile and Padouk wood using together

    Hi all, Me a new member here,basically me an electrical engineer and looking for a quick solution... me using virtified full body white color tiles for my home and in between some area I am using wooden steps(Padouk Wood) and I feel that the wood stain (while cleaning or humidity)can be damage...
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    Evostik Tile on Wood flexible

    Made a big mistake buying this stuff, when I used to work for Dolphin bathrooms some years ago they used to supply it on the job. I only got it as I was going directy onto chipboard floor ( i usually ply line) which had been previously tiled so no issues wih that. Put them down late afternoon...
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    Wood table saws

    Looking for a cheap and cheerfull table wood saw, mainly just for trimming down kick boards, anyone know of any decent ones. Only one I've been able to find is one from Argos for £50, anyone know of any others ?
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