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Hi all, I'm looking to tile the entirety of our small patio area with either brick slips or terracotta tiles and would appreciate picking the brains of experts please. As you can hopefully see from the image below, the red section (which is the area we want to brick slip/tile) already has a...

Hi, I am installing a shower/wet room in an upstairs on suite. Shower tray will be installed and three walls tiled to form the shower area. All the walls are rendered/plastered brick. The floor is hardwood boarded with a 6mm OSB overlay. Do I need to tank the walls and floor with it being a...

Hi, I am installing a shower/wet room in an upstairs on suite. Shower tray will be installed and three walls tiled to form the shower area. All the walls are rendered/plastered brick. The floor is hardwood boarded with a 6mm OSB overlay. Do I need to tank the walls and floor with it being a...

Hi Guys i’m going to be tiling over skimmed plaster walls in a kitchen for first time. (first time over bare plaster) Do i need to prime the walls with anything? I use rapid set mapei wall tile adhesive and the brick slips will be made of sand and cement not clay. So basically concrete based...

Hi everyone, hopefully someone can help me. I have a brick wall that’s had render put on it and then tiled. I am the tiling the area and scraped off most of the tile adhesive today but the company got their property maintenance guy to start taking it off and realized it was too hard.. BUT he has...

Hi, I'm retiling the walls in the pictures which is a shower above a bath - one wall is stripped back to the bare brick and the other is back to the plaster, which is sound. To prepare the brick wall, I'm thinking of using a 6mm hardie backer - they recommend a grab adhesive but would anyone...

hi all, i was wondering what the going rate (roughly) is for someone doing a brick slip wall. £pm preferably. thanks

Hi all, hoping for some advice. We purchased some splitface slate tiles from tilegiant and had them put on a brick wall that had been plastered with bonding and multifinish. 6 months on they have all come off, the adhesive is on the back of the tile but not the wall, it hasnt taken to the wall...

NOTE: DO NOT Post personal contact details in the forum unless in designated areas, of which this is not. Contact each other using the Private Messaging system (click start a conversation). Hi All, I'm from a brick slip company and we're looking for installers around the country to help...

Hi there everyone. What a fantastic forum. I have taken out the bathroom in our 1930s bungalow. The floor was tiled, and well stuck down. Removing the tiles has revealed a layer of bitumen painted onto concrete. The floor is solid and isn't likely to move. My question is this...what kind of...

Hello fellow tilers, I have a property that has a brick slip cladding by Wetherby - 7mm & 9mm Brick Slips - Wetherby Building Systems Ltd - https://www.wbs-ltd.co.uk/systems-solutions/system-finishes/7mm-9mm-brick-slips/ - in Teracotta Smooth on the outside of the property. Does anyone know if...

Good rate of pay offered for someone experienced in this field.

Having decided I was bored of a living room devoid of personality, I decided I wanted to go with the Victorian library look. A big part of that is having a false chimney breast installed to replace the hard wired fire suite and having the chamber of said chimney breast tiled with brick slips. As...

Good morning I’m tiling a bathroom in 600x400 porcelains both floor and wall, ideally it want to be done 50 % brick bond but I’m slightly concerned because holding the tiles back to back there is a couple of mm bow in the tiles, I’ve not used a levelling system before but happy to use one, in...

Good morning I’m tiling a bathroom in 600x400 porcelains both floor and wall, ideally it wants to be done 50 % brick bond but I’m slightly concerned because holding the tiles back to back there is a couple of mm bow in the tiles, I’ve not used a levelling system before but happy to use one, in...

When tiling a window reveal in a kitchen with brick bond tiles I am struggling to set out the window as 2 tiles leaves around a 15mm gap towards the window. Can anyone think of a way over this? Thanks. Should the grout line with the tiles on the window base line up with the grout line of the...

Can anyone recommend the best brick acid to use to remove efflorescence and stain8ng on exterior porcelain patio paving tiles?

Hi, I am tiling the front of my bungalow (following removal of some broken 1970s tiles). Please can you suggest the best adhesive to use and if there are any surface preparations required to ensure the adhesion of porcelain tiles. Thanks for the advice.

Hi all, new signup here beginning first tiling job. We've got a conservatory room at the back of our house in which we're laying some quarry tile. We've figured out the spacing, and happily the room is pretty square (3mm skew for just under 4m), so we're beginning our layout on the left hand...

Hi all, I'm due to install Fired Earth glass mosaics (*££!!) and am a bit nervous about safety as not done delicate glass before and see issues with exposed edges. They are paper fronted and looks a nightmare cutting such delicate sheets on my bridge saw, keeping the sheets dry so they don't...