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Doing bathroom with breeze block internal walls, sand and cement render then plaster skim. Unhappy with porc wall tile weight on plaster skim and in any case, lot of blown plaster so decided to remove the lot back to breeze block. Now wondering how best to prep walls, thinking dot'n'dab...

Ok need some help on this one please if you can. I have built a oversize 3 car garage 9 meters wide by around 6.5 deep. The floor is a 150mm concrete slab with re-bar built on compacted hardcore, there is a 1200 gauge damp proof membrane all standard stuff. Now the finish was a "floated"...

Hi all, New to the forum and looking for some advice/ opinions for floor preparation. Got a hall floor to tile with 300mm x 300mm slate. The substrate is 18mm tongue and groove flooring. Was thinking about the following: (1) Lifting tongue and groove floorboards, adding noggins between...

Afternoon All. Thanks for everybody who have put input in up to know. Time to put a quote together and interested what figures folk would be putting in. Take up 90m2 of stone and 12mm ply and dispose of. Overboard with hardiebacker with Ditra on top. Fit natural stone running through 3...

Morning Pictures of a job that is to be retiled. The floor has been down 10 years,90m2 on 12mm/15mm ply on floorboards. Option 1 lift all stone, ply, and made good any floorboard issues.(Massive labour and possibly opening up other issues,ply under skirts architrave) Option2 lift stone, remove...

Several days ago I was reading a thread on here asking what to do next. The prep had been done, and I use the word prep very loosely!, based on advice from a plasterer, NOT a tiler. Consequently several major mistakes had been made, that will or could, have dire consequences possibly in the...

I went to start a floor on Friday about 30m2, when we arrived 10mm warm up boards had been laid without been stuck to the sucfloor with adhesive and no washers were used just 40mm turbo gold screws , I told my lads to take out the screws and stick the boards down with spf rapid s1 setaflex while...

I am quoting to lay a reclaimed limestone chequerboard floor over an existing base that is assumed to be concrete once the existing stone tiles have been removed by main contractor. there will be no underfloor heating involved but i would ideally like to lay some sort of membrane between the...

I went and priced a bathroom for this guy to which I measure up and tell him what is needed for the marble floor he requires. The floor is 10m2 chipboard with dips and highs due to the joists being out to say the least. The plumber has told the customer that he will prep the wet area for me...

Hi guys, Planning a job i have on in a few weeks. Its an oldish house, and the bathroom floor is roughly 4.7 m x 2.25 m. I have discussed with the customer that the floor boards need to come up. I recommended straightening out the joists leveling the floor etc. So I plan to : Remove existing...

Bathroom floor, used to have carpet tiles. Black glue combed on. I will have to score and scrape it all off.. Any recommendation on method of removal? thanks in advance

I have the opportunity to tile this kitchen floor however the prep work will need a lot of attention and time. I have a slot to do it but it humps and slopes down and also has a hearth in as per picture. What would be your choice of prep. Personally I woukd remove floor boards and ply over...

Hello all, tiling bathroom floor. I have searched this forum and established that the best thing to do is tile under the toilet pan. I am pretty sure I have the room to do this. The only concern I have is that the tiles may crack under weight/use of the pan (I have young children that insist on...

Hi. I need to put the quote together by tuesday evening.I was 99% confident what I was going to suggest to the customer but just to get my thoughts strait will do this post :smilewinkgrin:. I`ve got 11m2 of 100x100 porc.tiles to do in a hallway(floor).The existing subflor is 18mm chipboard with...

Hi all I am at last stage of my bathroom refurb (the floor) and would like advice please,floor size is 1.7mx1.8m,existing is floorboards which are not to bad but the floor has a fall of roughly 15-20mm,don't seem to be much movement not a very big area. The mrs (the boss) has chosen 600x600...

Hi, this is my first post here! I've agreed to help my father tile a bathroom wall in an old house he's just bought. The walls are far from smooth and far from level! What's the best method of getting the wall true? It's an old stone wall so some bits are worse than others!

Hi Well we are thinking of tiling our bathroom soon on all walls floor to celling and I wanted to know what sort of tile size should I be looking at for a small bathrrom. Room Width is 1m 67cm x 2m 48cm with a height of 2m 32cm. I have worked it out at around 20sqm without taking the window...

I have a wetroom coming up next month and and looking for a bit of advice. The room is 3mx3m with 1200 former and free standing glass screen. The T&G boards look to be in good condition and well screwed down at the moment. I need to prep the floor ready for tiling and was going to go with...

Hi fella's Looked at a job today, around 25m2 of floor tiling, 400mm square 12mm thick polished granite tiles. The floor as it stands is carp in the extreme, some butcher has been in with a couple of bags of latex and spread it aroundarbitrarily. I ran an 1800mm level around and there are two...

Ive got an 18mm chipboard floor over layed with 18mm ply screwed at 150mm centres. The ply was coated on the back and edges with sbr before installation. Running a level over the floor some joists are up to 7mm lower than others. I intend laying 600x300 porcelain tiles over this using...