floor tiling

Anyone with some advice would be much appreciated. Around 4 years ago I had my hall and lounge tiled in shines porcelain floor tiles, wife don’t like the shiny finish any more as the upkeep is too much. How far would I have to go to change them. I have originally taken up old floor boards as...

Good evening. Just a quick one and I’m sure it’s asked and answered many a time so I do apologise. Can you lay ditra or Durabase straight onto chipboard, it has the green coloured wax on it. I was under the impression you can’t. I always use hardie on chipboard but need to keep the height down...

Going to be tiling a small cloak room floor and a wall plus boxed in cistern/ pipe work. Ive tiled plenty of walls before but this will be my first attempt at doing the floor. Im assuming that do the floor first and then overlap the wall tiles on top of the floor tiles? A few other questions...

Hi all, im re fitting my my small wc/cloak room and plan to tile the floor. ( about 2.5 m2) The existing floor is concrete and it is pretty flat for the most part. However there are some areas that are uneven and likely to give me problems. so i wanted to check what the best practice for...

Can anyone help me find discontinued tile?

Hi there, I am looking for two boxes of BCT 49319 in beige, if anyone has any good ideas please

I have an idea what’s gone wrong here but would be interested to hear other opinions. Old property which had a floating wooden floor removed and replaced with 60mm foam backer boards (wedi or similar) over the concrete slab. Electric ufh latexed over then tiled. The concrete was “blackjacked”...

Guys. I’m going to be pricing up a large floor on Friday. 47ms in total. My first real large job to price. I’m extremely confident with the tiling side of things but the prep beforehand is what id like some advice with as ufh is in this property and I’ve never dealt with it before. The ufh is...

I have a job coming up to tile on caberboard. 10mm porc. Floor is rock solid. Rather than overboard. I’m thinking decoupling mat. Any thoughts ?

Hi everyone, I had my floor ripped up after a leak two years ago and wanted to get UFH heating system in my kitchen. The kitchen units were not removed but the floor around was back to original concrete base (house circa 1880). see pictures I wanted to maintain the original height of the floor...

Hi all, what size trowel should i use for 600x150 porc floor tiles - 10mm thick. going onto plywood bathroom floor using mapei super flexi adhesive. Plywood has been tanked with weber tanking kit. Thanks!

Hi, we've had a builder come out and put in a Longfloor screed to level a room by about 40mm. Two weeks later we've seen a lot of bubbling come up through the screen but unsure if this is an issue? We're looking to put down Amtico flooring once the screed has dried out but trying to ascertain...

Product code was 221074 - I'm short one tile but if anyone has a box I'd be very happy to buy. Many thanks.

Does anyone have any Porcelanosa Yakarta floor tiles .. 3 have been cracked and I’m trying to avoid having to do the whole floor again

Rialto white tile has been discontinued

Hi, we've been victim to an AWOL builder who has not left enough space for us to insulate with 50mm pir board, screed and then tile. I was thinking 50mm PIR board over concerete, chipboard and then no more ply. Should I self level the concrete, assuming the concrete is level but just bumpy or...

Hi, Does anyone out there have any of these discontinued tiles left over from a project? I have finally ripped out my 29 year old (I kid you not!) kitchen and due to the different layout of my new (yippee...) kitchen units, I need some of these tiles to fill in the gaps which will be on show...

Hi, I have a small roughly 1 metre square porch area that we would like to put tile down on and am just looking for some advice as the area isn't without problems. The area is concrete which has quite the slope - between the bottom of the wooden step in the foreground of the image attached and...

Hi everyone, a friend has asked me to tile their bathroom floor, it's a very small area around 5m2 I would say, it has chipboard floor boards at the moment which he has screwed down well and he is going to overboard it with 6mm ply screwed down well. This is what he wants me to tile on, if it...

Hi, been fitting bathrooms and tiling them for years now but never taken on solely tiling jobs so the floors have never been over 6-7 meters. So I've got a kitchen / dining room to lay 400 x 400 ceramic tiles , its a screed floor thats been levelled off around 3 months ago. Ive got to lay...