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Hi All Ive got a nice job to price up but have a few questions that i thought the pro's would be able to help with. Its 75 sq mtrs of natural stone, one section is water underfloor heating with 75mm screed which i'll advise ditra matting which im alright doing. The other section is polypipe...

Hi All Got a job of tiling a bathroom walls with 60x30 polished porcelain tiles. Ive always sealed the tiles before starting tiling but my customer has just told me hes taken all 18 boxes up to the bathroom for me, my question is, is it ok to seal the tiles once they are up? I'll be using weber...

Hi all Done 70 mtrs of 60x60 porcelain on dittra over a water underfloor heating system. I finished a couple of weeks ago but as the customer hasnt moved in yet the heating hasnt been turned on. I was wondering what the rules are on turning the heating back on. It was on for a few weeks...

Hi All Just a quick question A customer of mine had me lay 35 metres of slate,multi format,multi coloured with colour enhancer sealant on,2 coats and all is well. She's asked me to go back and do all the skirting in the slate aswell but asked me a question that i didnt want to answer there...

Hi All Im looking into setting up my own tile shop but am having trouble finding suppliers,have phoned a few, ctd and waxmans naming a couple and the suppliers of the tile shop i use which is out of town. the tile shop i use will supply me at roughly half price but want to be sole suppliers...

Hi all got a marble job, cappaccino marble,very shiney. ive asked the tile shop if they need sealing and they said ltp matt stone sealant would be fine but ive also read elsewhere that as they are polished the sealant wouldnt penetrate and is a waste of time. :mad2: Ive done a marble job...

Hi All A customer had decided he wanted marble on his hallway.kitchen,utility and basement floors. While in a tile shop he said a tiler,said he'd been in the game 30 years,said he would stay well clear of marble as its to much trouble. i said it would be fine if done properly, but thought i'd...

Hi All i did a bathroom floor nearly 6 months ago, the plumber laid 18mm ply on the floor over the joists and added more supports. the floor was solid with loads of screws all over it. i then laid electric underfloor heating single wire and tiled on top,plenty of weber rapid set flexible addy...

Hi All Me again My customer wants a high gloss for his travertine. Ive seen a job that has it but where can i get it and does LTP iron wax gloss give that effect,like a glazed ceramic but not slippery if that makes sense. i have photos on my phone but cant get them off it at the moment,i'll...

Hi All Ive got a really nice job ive been recommended for, 77 sq mtrs of travertine. The customers father has had a shop install about 120 sq mtrs in his house through the ground floor. 60x60 tiles with a high gloss finish(thats another tread coming im afraid). there are some long runs with a...

hi all been to look at a job and ive been booked in, 20m conservatory with undertile heating. now they have had their heads turned by the marble work top fitter. he has said that in hampstead heath and other posh london places people are having slabs of marble cut into 1500x1000mm tiles and...

Hi all just thought id mention this and ask the question. I went to a job to measure up and price for underfloor heating, the plumber brought his electrician along to price it aswell. We was talking about it and i said the insulation boards needed to be stuck down with flexible powdered...

Hi All Had to rip out a shower cubicle then re-tile it, got as far as the rip out. I took every tile off by hand after i had pulled the trim off sides and top by just pulling it. tiling was dot and dabbed on to paint plus really bad grouting,think the only thing holding them up was the grout...

Hi All Ive been doing a job with Topps tiles, zamora brown 30x30. when i got the tiles out the boxes they had some dust on the top of tile face which was in the pattern of the back of the tile on top. Dusting off a couple they seemed perfectly fine,not sure if anybody has had it but i find it...

Hi All I did a job a few months ago for a building contractor. It involved a 3 bed bungalow with every floor being tiled over polypipe underfloor heating. I started on a Wednesday and got there to no adhesive and only half the floor being laid.The contractor asked me to do the kitchen first...

Hi All Just been to look at a job and its a concrete floor that then goes into a room that is the same level as the concrete floor but is made up of squares of this hardwood floor that are roughly 400x400mm which are made up off smaller blocks (parquet flooring style),these are stuck to a black...

Hi all Ive been to look at a job, its a nice big one 130+ mtrs but there is insulation boards on top of plywood. The insulation boards hold 10mm or so pipework which is the heating system, the pipes are just below the surface. The builder has said i can tile straight on top of this. Is this...

hi all ive got a 30sq mtr floor to lay with porcelain tiles called earthstone, problem is they come in a box which i think is 1.44sq mtrs which includes 2 x 600mm x 400mm 2 x 400mm x 300mm* 6 x 200mm x 400mm 4 x 160mm x 160mm * i think thats the size, ordered tiles awhile ago and they are...

hello im new to the site but been tiling 6 years. will be asking a few questions soon but for now just having a look around