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alexburtt
Good evening,
I'm just on with buying my first house with my girlfriend, a new build property, and as such need to put flooring down, including carpets in the living areas and suitable floring for the kitchen, bathroom, en suite etc..
I have planned to tile the kitchen and have bought suitable tiles to do this. The kitchen floor is solid concrete and is comlpetely flat and level. My questions are as follows.
1. I have already bought the kitchen tiles from Wickes, 450x450x90mm ceramic tiles that are PEI 4 rated. So are suitable for floor tiles. Can any one suggest a good adhesive to use. I have considered using Wickes standard Floor Tile Adhesive, would this be suitable for a kitchen? Do i need to use a flexible tile adhesive or is this only necessary for Bathrooms, due to the amount of pssible moisture penetration??
2. The kitchen has plain white skirting board already installed. My question regarding this is, should i lay the tiles flush to the skiting board or do I either need to lay some kind of edging strip or just leave a gap for either grout or silcone sealant?
3. Tile spacers - I seem to only be able to find tile spacers in either thin (about 1.5mm) or 5mm thickness? Is 5mm about the standard for floor tiles, it seems a little big to me, can you get 3.5mm spacers or am i being daft??
Any advice much appreciated. I can't wait to get stuck into this project.
Cheers,
Alex.
I'm just on with buying my first house with my girlfriend, a new build property, and as such need to put flooring down, including carpets in the living areas and suitable floring for the kitchen, bathroom, en suite etc..
I have planned to tile the kitchen and have bought suitable tiles to do this. The kitchen floor is solid concrete and is comlpetely flat and level. My questions are as follows.
1. I have already bought the kitchen tiles from Wickes, 450x450x90mm ceramic tiles that are PEI 4 rated. So are suitable for floor tiles. Can any one suggest a good adhesive to use. I have considered using Wickes standard Floor Tile Adhesive, would this be suitable for a kitchen? Do i need to use a flexible tile adhesive or is this only necessary for Bathrooms, due to the amount of pssible moisture penetration??
2. The kitchen has plain white skirting board already installed. My question regarding this is, should i lay the tiles flush to the skiting board or do I either need to lay some kind of edging strip or just leave a gap for either grout or silcone sealant?
3. Tile spacers - I seem to only be able to find tile spacers in either thin (about 1.5mm) or 5mm thickness? Is 5mm about the standard for floor tiles, it seems a little big to me, can you get 3.5mm spacers or am i being daft??
Any advice much appreciated. I can't wait to get stuck into this project.
Cheers,
Alex.