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    what trowel for wood flooring?

    Hi I have a cloakroom, 3m sq to tile, it is a suspended floor half inch ply, with 6mm wbp screwed down at 150mm centre. I am using a nicobond rapidflexi adhesive on 300mm x 300mm ceramic tile, but the adhesive says to use a trowel that leaves a bed of 2-3 mm adhesive at the bottom with a...
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    Wood hearth

    Hi, Job tomorrow tiling floor and up over wood hearth but cant figure hearth in my set up with regards to centering it as i am governed by an expansion joint so my question when i follow the pattern over hearth and the edge on the top has to be cut to follow the pattern do i lay the riser over...
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    Granite Tiles, Half floor concrete and half wood

    Guys been to measure a job today. Kitchen floor 3/4 of it is concrete with olf quarry tiles down and the other 1/4 is t+g flooring, well laid and solid. However the wood is about 2mm higher than the tiled floor The tiles are Granite black with shiny bits in, they are £90 a Sq Mt and need...
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    Wood effect tiles

    Hi this is my first post, hope somebody can help me! Im tiling a friends kitchen floor this w/end, my first Job. He wants to put wood effect tiles down. My question is what grout should be used? any comments would be appreciated!:yes: Cheers Shero.
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    Parquet wood flooring

    Hi Guys, I am doing a kitchen floor which currently has wood parquet flooring down. I have removed some of the wood floor which comes up ok, however the black adhesive is still left on the cement floor. Rather than trying to scrape it all off, does anyone have any good ways of removing it. I was...
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    Bath Panel: External Wood Board

    I needed 15mm ply to frame the front of my bath ready for tiling. My only source was B&Q but they did not have 15mm. Instead I used 15mm external wood board. It looks like large wood shavings and slivers of wood compressed. It is abbreviated as OSB board on the receipt. The B&Q section...
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    Floor tiling on wood

    Hi Can anyone please give me any advice on tiling on a wooden floor, I have just been asked to quote to retile a floor that has just been tiled by somebody else it appears that the tiles are already cracking and the grouting has cracked also. The customer ensures me that it has been...
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    Tiling on wood

    Hi I'm new to this and could really do with some advice about tiling a kitchen floor. We have tiled on top of tongue and groove waterproof chipboard flooring, "wyrock" which we then primed with pva 5 parts to one, before laying ceramic tiles with what we understood was flexible adhesive. Since...
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    around a wood burning stove

    Hello boys n girls, been working up in the borders all week, big job, nice surroundings. Anyway, let me pick your brains. I'm now onto the kitchen and they have decided they wanted to put a wood burning stove 'in' the old fireplace and tile around it, ceramics. I have no idea how much heat...
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    Slate on Wood Floor

    Went to a job yesterday to take up a slate floor in a kitchen which had been down less than two years, because some tiles have been splitting and grout joints cracking. Instead of just going in and knocking them up without looking at anything I thought I would inspect it and ask you guys to...
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    Porcelain wood?

    Just been to look at a floor that client wants tiling with 600 x 100 x 7 mm porcelain tiles that are wooden plank effect, onto a chipboard floor. My question is if any what size spacers will look best, and should i ply the floor first? The chipboard is very solid. Cheers.
  12. Dan

    What's used on wood?

    Who uses what on wood? I tend to find the options are either plywood and then 2-part flex or something along the lines of fastflex which can be stuck directly to floors.

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