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Priced up bathroom and cloakroom and am just wondering if im coming in about right. Ply floor, plasterboarded walls. 18m2 porcelain 14m2 ceramic 6m2 travertine 12 lm marble border all in inc mats 1200 Sound about right? Cheers

Distaster! 2 tiles short but b and q dont stock these anymore, anyone saw them anywhere else? Buy Studio Wall Tile Orange (W)400 x (L)100 x (T)8mm Pack Of 25, Shop Online Cheapest Price Painting and Decorating UK Cheers guys. Davie

Im in need of some advice as this will be my largest job. Its 45m2 of travertine in opus lay over 3 rooms and am looking for the best method of inserting expansion joints as I tae it a floor that size will require them wheither it be an expansion joint which will be straight and break up pattern...

Hi All, I know the backerboard/ply disscusion has been had to death but after chatting to mapei has got me thinking:yikes:. So some mapei products such as keraquick with or without latex are used to bed down backerboards to a ply or chipboard sub along with mechanical fixings, so it obviously...

Have job soon and its throwing up problems, issue im having now is floor had movement so will have to overboard with 18mm wbp before installing decoupler as tile to be layed is travertine BUT now with what id consider is belt and braces the upvc front and back door wouldnt be able to open after...

Began kitchen job today, get everything set up an try to turn on the saw and nothing! :yikes: Fuse is good, blade spins freely when I move it with my hand ,perhaps to easly. Any past experience of this problem? Saw worked fine last week when it was used.

Hi advice needed before attempting floor. Wet Ufh being installed and current chipboard being cut out in places to allow pipe to be layed. Pipes will be inbetween joists therefore no room for noggings to be inserted, so to ensur strong deflection free floor and am not wanting to take risks. I...

Here's an update on the upcoming floor. Spoken to joiner and he has no way of adding noggins between joists because of the ufh pipework so advised not to use sheets of ply as under every joint must be supported. Which makes sense, so if chipboard is used which is obviously 22mm thick and...

Hoping for a bit of advice. Called back to a tavertine job i did about a year ago for a mate. Found 2 seperate cracks that stretch in a straight line accross width of the floor and beleive there where the 15mm ply sheets butted together, therfore think there must be movement in floor? Ply was...

117m2 of ceramic and porcelain to be layed. 2 bathrooms 1 hallway 1 utility room total of 17-20 days prob inc mats of approx £600 lab £3500 so £4100 all in sound ok or.........:cheesy:

Just wondering what everyones thought are about sub. After disscussion with builder about sub floors on wet ufh. ok so ufh is layed then chipboard sub ontop, I suggested 15mm ply ontop to ensure strength then mapeitex followed by tile. He wants chipboard the backerboard and tile. so whats...

I still cant beleve theres tilers out there still not using decouplers for jobs it would clearly benifit. Just went to see a domestic Travertine job. I was the 6th tiler to see job so hed had a lot of info already. Its 50m2 of module travertine layed over the ground floor of a property running...

I use a Norton clipper 200 which has saw me ok but more jobs are coming in where tiles are 400-600mm adn slate/travertine etc and am finding it akward when having to push big tiles through and am wondering if anyone has advice on wet saws bearing in mind I cant go to to a Dewalt as much as Id...

Quick question, Tiled an outside step today risers and treds but the sides were in poor shape so plan was to use 6mm backer board beded in SPF on sides of step then tile as normal finishing with a brass trim over the edges of the side tiles as customer asked. Is this a fair plan or is there...

Ok so have a basic job of tiling a small bathroom that joiner was ripping out and reboarding but today called me round to say walls are not traditional stud partitions but are cardboard honeycomb wich ive neither tiled onto or heard of. Im wondering if you guys have come accross it and any tips...

Recently asked to go and look at a porch which has flagstones that seem to be soild and about 2foot by 3foot in size. My thoughts are to prime, lay SLC put down Dural to alow small amount of movement if it occours(to be safe) and then lay using Keraflex with flexible grout. Any one have...

Have a porcelain job on at the moment and am finding that my Husqvarna TC670 Tile Cutter Pro manual cutter is struggling to snap down the scored line, its occasionally following the line then drifting off accros the tile leaving me having to finish off of wet cutted. Is this due to the scoring...

Curious on what everyone thinks is the best way to make a wall good for tiling either dot and dab, get a plasterer to skim the wall or to put up battons and board out wall? Never dot and dabbed but i know alot of joiners I work with doint like the baton method due to amount lost of the room...

First larger job 25m2 either slate or travertine first day bed ufh mat to ply using spf, day 2 pour slc £120 lay 25m2 @ £5m2 dura matting £120 lay tile £750 inc sealing and grouting = £990 lab + mats 15 addy, 6 slc, 2l sealer, 3 grout, 25m2 dura =965 total of £1955 Seems alot but you can see...

Quick post, Just wondering whats the best method for determining how off a floor is interms of flat and dips/humps before applying Slc and are screws the best way to mark rquired height? Never used Slc before and want to do it right.:thumbsup: