bathroom tiling

Hi all i hope someone can help me I am a plumber that has to do some tileing from time to time The problem i have is thati tiled three walls full height around a bath but the tap end of the bath cut into the window and i also have a basin splash back on the same wall Everything had to be...

alright tilers i tiled my bathroom with 4.5mm black porcelain tiles which went fine until the grouting. i used grey bathroom grout and wiped what i could off as i went.but now i cant get the tiles to look clean i have tried brick cleaner to try and get off the excess grout but its like the...

Hi, hope you can give me some advice but we have been told by a tiler that our bathroom does not have waterproof plasterboard and we need to replace our plasterboard with it. I am concerned about this on the basis that we have walls and floor tiled and I would have thought this was sufficient...

Hi We're having our house renovated and have had a huge quote from our builder for the tiler that he uses. It seems massively expensive to us so want someone to come and quote for us as we'd rather get someone else in if our builder's contact is indeed expensive. We've not chosen tiles yet as...

Hi As I said in my intro I'm a DIYer and have a little previous experience of tiling - a few floors and the bathroom in my last house. I live in Northern Ireland. I'm now doing the bathroom in my current home and have a couple of questions. 1. I'm laying ceramic floor tiles and the...

I am about to have a shower installed in my already tiled bathroom. Do I need to regrout the area where the shower is going to make it waterproof or will my existing grouting suffice?

Hi there, A bit of professional advice needed please. We moved into a flat about 2,5 years ago and the bathroom had been newly refurbished. Already for about a year now I had been looking at the grouting getting "porous" and beginning to crack. Some of the tiles seemed to start poking out as...

I've just laid some 600x300 Porcelain tiles for a builder both walls and floor. I did all this prior to the bathroom fittings. Two of the walls weren't very square to begin with. The client and builder are happy with the job. However someone else who has been working on the premises says that...

I am looking for a professional tiler for my bathroom. In Milton keynes , The area that needs tiling is 22m2 with polished porcelain for the walls and matt porcelain for the floor both are 300 x 600 x 10mm tiles. The walls and floor have been boarded with aquapanel. The floor will have a uheat...

Hi This is my first post on here, so please be gentle, and bear with me. I am for tiling my bathroom, walls and floor. And I have a few questions which I would be very greatful if someone could answer, or give me some advice. My bathroom has plastered walls which had been painted with...

Morning all. Thanks for all the help in previous posts. I've now sanded all my bathroom walls using a belt sander on P40. Needless to say the missus wasn't best pleased with the dust...It gets everywhere even with the door closed and polythene sheet taped to the door frame!..Glad i wore a...

Hiya, Been having a look on here for about a week or so but not managed to find the exact answers i'm looking for. I'm completely gutting my small bathroom (House Built in 2001) 1.9m x 1.7m (w)x(d) and replacing with new W/C Basin and Bath. I'm looking to tile both the wall and floor. My...

Well, it's not just a bathroom, I'm doing the wetroom downstairs too. The bathroom is basically just the floor, with a 6" high plinth for the bath which has been build from 6x2 and marine ply. The shower is in a corner and has a stud wall built on one side, giving a 3 sided shower. Can I...

Hi guys, 2 Questions. 1. I have just laid the self levelling compound (last night) and I plan to start tile this evening. I am going to use Keraquick and latex plus, I wanted to know whether or not I should use a primer prior to tiling. I was thinking about using primer G? 2 I have...

hi to all. i have bathroom with two bare external brick walls (old plaster taken off) and two partition internal walls (have taken old plaster and wood strips off, vertical wood still there). i want to tile wall and floor with ceramic tiles. instead of a shower i will be installing a...

Hi all, Please excuse the ignorance and stupid questions, havent done this before... Here is the story: Newbuilt with chipboard floors in bathrooms (joists underneath). I need a neat solution that will add a minimum amount of height for electric underfloor heating and 9mm ceramic tiles. I...

What is the best tile cement to use for a bathroom. I am fixing tiles to aqua board. Les:welcome:

hello, I am looking for some advice I have brought some slate tiles for my bathroom floor and some ceramic tiles for the walls which are freshly plastered (seen some conflicting advice about that on here), Should I do the walls first or the floor? and do I need to seal the slate before fixing or...

Hi, wonder if anyone can give me some advice on bathroom tiling. If you are putting the same range/size tiles on both the wall and the floor should the gaps in the tiles be the same or does the gaps in the floor tile need to be wider for any reason, and also should the tiles on the floor follow...

Hi I am taking out a bath and replacing with a shower enclosure. I am taking off all the old tiles and replacing with. Behind the bath on one side the wall is bare brick so before i can tile right down i need to make good - what is the best way - can i just repair the wall with some render...