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    tiling to balcony

    hi all been asked to price up for a square balcony approx 23 metres sq it been waterproofed with tuff deck which is a grp roof or fibre glass finished with top coat structure wise its sound and all flashings ect are in tact its has a handrail running around the perimeter which stops at the house...
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    Cobalt Blue Wall Tile for Kitchen Splashback

    Hi all, I'm looking for wall tiles for a customer to go in their kitchen as a splashback. There preferred colour is cobalt blue and preferred shape is rectanglular. They would also prefer them not to be metro style. Also, they don't want any smaller than 100 x 200 mm. Anyone any ideas where...
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    bal fracture mat.

    hello all, was just wondering if anyone has any reviews on the new matting from bal. they've had it on display at ctd for about a month now, but so far they're telling me only one contractor they know has been using it (seems they're happy with it from what they say at ctd). don't have any plans...
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    F-Ball hydrometer

    just bought one of them. never used it before so wondered how many times it can be used? cheers
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    need advice please, tiling balcony

    hi guys and girls, i have tiled a balcony but the customers not happy with the end result, he's been told by a roofing company that plastic fillets can be tiled, now i must say the fillets are plastic, hollow and are very flexible the customer want me to tile the fillets and wall but I've told...
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    Weber, tile master or bal

    Charcoal grout, any advice as to which is easiest to work with, and doesn't dry patchy?
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    Spanish Football

    Real Madrid v Barcelona About to start and to be watched by 400 million worldwide! 3-0 to Madrid.
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    TOPPS - Selling Out of Date BAL product

    Just wondered if anyone has a view on this. I went to my local Topps branch to pick up a couple of bags of BAL Micromax2 grout and a bottle of BAL GT1 Admix for a shower job in one of my holiday homes. When I set about doing the first mix I noticed that the GT1 was out of date December 2013...
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    F-Ball Hygrometer

    Hi all , M8 of mine is laying some Karndean for me at my Ma's house. Got an F-Ball Hygrometer on the floor and getting a constant 95% reading on it. Not having used one before myself , this strikes me as odd given it's an old floor. Whats the general modus operandi with these meters ...
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    Balcony floor extension

    I tiled a 250 m2 steel and concrete balcony floor in a seafront pub some 12 years ago now the owner has started to extend a third of the balcony out by about 4 metre's with the intention of putting up a conservatory which will give a floor area of about 100 m2 .He has decided that he wants...
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    Bal's New Rapid Mat

    BAL Adhesives - Products - rapid-mat
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    Bal's T-Shirt give away

    BAL Adhesives - Cool Earth
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    p c I nanolight vs bal

    Hello my ? Is can p.c.I nanolight adhesive & grout. be used on Any tiles and any surface. Also is it a more user friendly product than bal Adhesives & grouts. Please advise thanks.
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    Bal Micromax 2 Smoke grout shading

    Hi Just completed a floor area on a new build. 90m2 Vilroy Boch 600x600 Porcelain Matt tile. Tiled onto Hardwood Ply Surface over Underfloor Pipe heating. House is mid construction, no heating, no hot water, no portaloo. Water from a stand pipe. Problem is Grout joints are now shading lighter...
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    BAL Bond SBR on plasterboard

    This is my first major tiling job in the house, so I am after some advice please. We are looking at re-plasterboarding the kitchen walls, as when the old tiles came off, there was a big mess on the existing plasterboard, which I assumed there would be, so I am cutting out the old and replacing...
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    BAL Micromax 2 grout not curing

    I used Micromax 2 for the first time a few weeks ago and all was fine, the next day it was rock solid and has continued to be in the shower where it was applied. One week ago I used a different batch of Micromax 2 in a different shower and it doesn't seem to fully cure. As soon as water is...
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    Bal mosaic fix alternative

    As title says, what's the collective using as opposed to this as it hits the pocket hard
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    Tiling a new Raised Deck / Balcony - Advice Please

    We’re hoping to add a balcony on the back of a bungalow we’re buying as it’s built on a slope so the back of the property is around 1½ metres above garden level. What I have in mind is really a raised deck but I want to minimise ongoing maintenance so don’t want to construct it from normal...
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    Grout - Do Mapei do an equivalent to Bal Wide Joint Superflex?

    Question says it all really. Looking for a good single part grout that has the same flexibility as Bal I like Bal Superflex but limited by their colour range on this job.
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    BAL Waterproofing

    Doing a shower cubicle. Put up hardie backer today & sealed all joints with scrim & rapid set. Tomorrow I was going to apply tanking then possibly install shower tray on legs soliconing in between. Looking at a few vids for tanking they show bringing waterproof mat to top of tray. I was going to...
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