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    Decoupler

    Who is gonna be the first to try this? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUNEWAtvd-4 Is a bit like how we used to lay a visqueen sheet down before screeding and tiling.
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    Hairline Cracks In Marble At Studs

    Hi Guys, Anyone come accross this before? 4 inch stud wall 5m long x 2.8m high clad in 12mm hardibacker. Fixed 600 x 400 arrabascato italian marble tiles with Bal single part flexible slow set. lmm grout joints but left adequate expansion on the hardi and the tiles. 3 months no problem. Now a...
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    Underfloor Heating Causing Marks On Tiles

    Hi, I recently laid underfloor warm up style matt heating. Half is an old floor taken back to concrete. And half was a new screed laid a few months prior (according to customer) The floor was primed with the primer that was issued with the heating. The floor was then covered in flexible latex...
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    Another Church Stone Floor

    just started an interesting stone job in a chapel at a private school. ancaster white limestone 900x 600x 20 and 600x 600 x 20 out of which we have cut borders on site. three areas of coloured quarries. her area few pics of how job progressing. all products from tilemaster . will update every...
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    Failed Floor

    went to change couple of broken tiles and this is outcome.... first floor, chipboard floor, 9 mm ply, wet UFH between joists, all tiles debonded from addy, addy to ply stuck well, job done 2 years ago. total of 55 m2. Can you guys share your opinions what went wrong here? cheers
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    Tiling Over Floorboards - Bathroom

    First of all, hello, I'm a newbie (have some rental properties which I work on) and am redoing our bathroom at home and creating an en-suite. After tiling the en suite myself I decided to employ a tiler to do the main bathroom (also my wife insists, quite rightly). I've had 3 tilers look at...
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    Impey Water Guard

    Where do you all source impey waterguard? have previously always used tile safe but have heard good things about water guard and like the fact that the overlaps are much thinner in height variation due to thickness.
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    Wet Look Or Gloss Look Sealer Needed On Slate Flooring

    Can someone please tell me name of a good Sealer product which can give a high sheen wet look on slate flooring . It has to be glossy and last at least a year or two. I have been recommended Stone Glo but i cannot find this product anywhere in the UK . how can i get a lasting wet look on...
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    Today's View.

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    Anybody Know This Tiling Contractor

    Hello all, Just wondering if any of you guys have worked for or heard of a tiling contractor called Sutton Stone & Ceramics bested in Sutton Coldfield ??.......may do abit for them but just thought I may get some feedback on here before I do........ Cheers
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    Layout Question

    Hi all I am tiling a 1200 by 900 shower recess with 600 x 300 tiles (laid horizontally). I would have liked brick bond but the horizontal ridged tiles do not seem to lend themselves to this layout so the tiles will be vertically aligned. This may sound like a daft question but I'm torn on how to...
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    How Annoying!!

    How annoying is it when you pore your SLC over underfloor heating electrical matting and the matting (not the wires) bubbles up to the surface!! anyone got a good solution to stopping this happen or a particular brand of UFH? I have used spray floor adhesive on the matting which does help but...
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    Ridged Porcelain Tiles

    I am tiling a shower cubicle with porcelain tiles (they are called forward tiles) . The feature tiles are ridged horizontally at about half inch intervals. I am not having huge success cutting to width (so I am cutting at right angles to the ridges). I bought a Sigma 3B3 tile cutter as they seem...
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    Hardi Backer

    i use a fair amount of hardi backer and while it's great stuff it's also a massive pain in the arse. Heavy Horrible to cut Worse to cut holes in Then there's fixing it The screws are awfull Fixing is my biggest gripe by a mile where it is so hard it sometimes does not pull in to the stud work...
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    Wet Ufh - Tiling Onto Screed

    Hi all, I'd appreciate any help. I'll be installing wet underfloor heating in a new extension. I would like to know if i can tile straight onto the screed with flexible adhesive? Thank you.
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    Tops Rapid Set Flexy White

    has anyone had problems with it not sticking to the tiles? Has been sticking to the wall good enough but on a couple jobs it's been a bit patchy and not sticking to the tiles
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    Cleaned Tiles Weeping Water

    Hi all, Tiling my bathroom and wonder if I might get a sanity check!? Got all the tiles out last night to sort good from bad. They were a little dusty so used a sponge and a number of buckets of cold clean water to clean them. Left stacked up in 15's over night. Checked on how clean they were...
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    Leveling Compound Failed

    Has anyone seen self leveling compound fail? I've looked at a floor tiling job and the leveling compound laid 24 hrs ago is crumbling and dusty, it disintegrates when swept in places. What is the cause of this and how can it be fixed?
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    New Ensuite

    Hi everyone. Been on an ensuite that I created for a customer. Shower, basin, toilet. 24m2 walls, 4m2 of floor all in ceramic. Every day I've had at least one niggle with customer about something or other on my tiling. I think it's fine. Ive used bagged adhesive, walls are all primed also. I...
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    Tile Trim

    I've used Elite Trims twice now as where i used to use stopped delivering to the IOW. Quick delivery and great prices. Beats paying over the odds in a tile shop!
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