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[Olz]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

Thanks Fella's, I'm sure this is all bread and butter stuff for most of you, but as i've experienced (and still very much am) it's a huge learning curve and hopefully this will be helpfull for someone.

 

[Falcone]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

Great post Oli cheers mate.

still very much learning, lots of good advice here. thanks again

 

[Olz]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

A quick one before I go to bed,

Silicone Tip

Apply your bead of silicone, having cut the nozzle at 45 degrees, when you've put the bead on, spray it with a weak washing up liquid and water mix, spray your silicone smoothing tool or finger with the washing up liquid and water mix and smooth the silicone bead using one smooth motion, leave the washing up liquid and water mix to dry away.

The washing up liquid and water mix should only me made weak, and will stop the silicone sticking to your smoothing tool and finger making it easy to smooth over without it going all over the place.

 

[Spirit]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

You can also smooth silicone with a Fugi, which requires no liquid or lubricant, therefore any silicone scraped off can be reused elsewhere.

 

[Olz]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

Firefox wont find the plugin needed to view the link mate, what's a Fugi?

Nice siggy by the way mate, made me chuckle. :lol:

Edit: Found it on google mate, similar to the Karl Dahm shaping tool

 

[Spirit]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

Another LINKEY for those without Windows Media Player.

 

[Falcone]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

i have one of those kits. they're really good. give a really nice finish. highly recommended.

 

[Derry]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

great info oli, thanks for sharing and appreciated by many

 

[shane176]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

thanks for the info,
printed it off just in-case

 

[beanz]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

drill 4 holes in the tile, in a square formation.

Can you elaborate on this please Oli? I'm probably just dense, but i'm not 100% sure what you mean!?! Are these holes at the mid points, corners, edges, or doesn't it matter too much?

Great thread BTW, learning loads arlready!