Hello everyone, my name is David, nice to meet you all.
I would like to ask you all your opinion on this, all opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Should I tile down to the wooden floor the customer wants to install or should I tile down to a skirting board.
Im worried about movement in...
Hi all
Was scouring sites and pages for advice on the best way to prep floors and came across this forum.
We've had an extension built and are thinking of tiling our new utility room and cloakroom. Most of the floor is new screed, but the cloakroom is where the new floor meets the existing...
Hi guys. Ive been called out to a 1st floor bathroom, part of a three year old extension on to an original building. Floor is 60 x 30 marble tiles and there are several cracked. The extension has visibly "dropped". There are gaps around the edge of the floor, gaps at the sink and a gap at the...
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I have a great passion for wood working, we pride ourselves on remaining small but delivering beautifully crafted flooring in high volumes. I have had huge success. I love to watch my projects take shape into a work of art! I have 15 years experience...
Hey everyone!
Im tiling my kitchen and lounge, the lounge is 5m x 5m and is a wooden floor with a RSJ support in the middle and the kitchen is 3.8m x 2.7m but is a concrete floor. (Pictures below)
The joists in the lounge have been reinforced by sistering the joists and installing noggins...
I've got a wooden floor OSB but fairly stable and rigid to which I want to lay terracotta tiles (French and unglazed). Can anyone recommend the best adhesive to use? Been told adhesive with high latex content is best but would appreciate knowing manufacturer and product to order.
Hi Guys, I'm 6 months in being a tiler, I've done lots all my life and sold the dam things for 10 years so I'm after a little advice on a upcoming job please.
10 Sqm of natural stone (they have not chose which stone yet) on a upstair wooden floor and they want electric under floor heating too...
The wooden floor on upstairs en-suite is sound and level and i have planned to install a 800 x 900 stone resin shower tray. See attached photos of the floor. The instruction says to lay the tray on S/C mix.
Do i lay the sand/cement mix straight on the wooden floor or PVA before putting S/C?
To...
Hi guys, I am new to this forum .Me and my partner Ian are renovating a property currently and have some questions about tiling as we are trying to do this between us. The make up of the floor is as follows : dpm / cement / 40-50 cm gap (not much crawling space at the solumn of the house!) /...
Please can somebody share their knowledge and let me know if I’m on the right track, i.e do you think the steps I am about to undertake are going to prolong the life expectancy of my first attempt to tiling a floor (I am just a mere DIYer and not professional)?
The situation is that I’m trying...
Hi all,
I'm a new member and have been searching the forum for a solution to my latest issue but thought best to ask. Got loads of good advice from the forum to help finish my wall tiles, thanks.
Anyway, please see pic I'm tiling our 1st floor wooden floorboard bathroom floor and have planned...
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What would you all suggest for preparing our upstairs bathroom floor for tiling?
Currently it is standard T&G floorboards with gaps here and there where it was repaired by the previous owner.
My first thought was to put a thin ply over the existing and screw it down. Do I need to do anything...
My washing machine will live in a cupboard (tiled throughout inside of course) and I'd like to put floor tiles down on the wooden floor. Do I need to seal it first so that it doesn't absorb the moisture from the adhesive? Small area so don't really want to go and buy special adhesive.
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Hi,
I am looking to tile my fathers new kitchen. The kitchen is situated on the first floor of a detached 1900's property (split into 2 flats), with a suspended, original timber boarded floor (which we have screwed down). The area is approxrimately 4m x 2m. I am hoping to lay 330 x 330 mm x...
Hi,
I think I have two options here but I thought I'd run it by you chaps as I may be overlooking something.
I can either sand the paint off and apply a decoupling membrane or ply-line the whole thing.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
I have just got a job... basically I have agreed to rip up an existing hardwood tongue and groove floor that goes right through the ground floor...
But he only wants the kitchen tiling. The floor goes under all the units, wall to wall, so I have got to chop the flooring around the unit feet...
Afternoon all,
Intending to tile a new 18mm chipboard floor with 600 x 600 porcelaine tiles. Joists are 400 ish centres (old house!).
I am not going to overboard with 6mm ply despite many old and bold builders telling me this is the way to do it as I'm aware this is now a defunct way of...
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This is the first I have done with floorboards. As I'm aware that floorboards have a lot of movement do you carry out the same proces as a normal floor ie adhesive/ screw hardibacker board and tile with a flexible addy? ease could people tell me what they do as this is my first floorboard job...
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Hi im new to tiling, and i was wondering what adhesive to use. I have a kitchen floor to tile 11M2 and there is floor boards down
and on top of that the guy is putting down Hardie backerboards. Waht i want to know is what is the best adhesive to use and grout to have a job well done.
Ps it must...
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Hey all, Have a large floor made up of mixtures of concrete and wooden flooring. Wooden floor 18mm WBP [all correctly laid]
A question:
1. Would you run the decoupling membarane right over the area to create a single skin. For example if one area of the room is 6mtrs long by 3mtrs wide and...
Jeff the tiler
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