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    After a long day, i go home and crack open a bottle of........

    SHOW US YOUR TIPPLE! Fancied this today:
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    Porcelain Newbie looking for advice on tiles lifting!

    Hi all, I’m new to this and tiling! Looking for advice! Basically we built a 30sqm extension on our house to move the kitchen into it so we could have a larger living space, It was recommended to use underfloor heating in the extension and a cement based liquid screed! (Rest of the house is...
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    Tiles cracked in new bathroom

    Hi, I was hoping I might get some advice with a cracked tiling issue I am experiencing. We had a new bathroom installed about a year ago, and noticed the other day that half the top two rows of tiles along an interior brick wall are cracked. We had a closer look around the bathroom, and found...
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    Hairline cracks in tiles

    I would just like to see if anyone could give me any advice on why this may be happening with tiles I installed a year ago I installed a bathroom with ceramic tiles which the customer decided on. I have had a nightmare with them as people ever since on the most annoying little things which I've...
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    Cracking Grout, advice needed

    could someone advise? I’ve recently had my bathroom floor tiles with ceramic tiles and in advance of my ruler fitting them we boarded the floorboards with 9mm ply. Since the tiler installed the tiles the grout has started to crumble and fall out! The ply seemed solid and no one walked on the...
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    Tiles coming up, cracks, and hollow points

    I recently had my whole ground floor tiled as part of a larger renovation project. On moving back in I noticed a tile with a crack in it which the contractor said would be replaced. Over the course of the next two months, a few more tiles developed cracks in them and a few lifted off the floor...
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    crackle tiles and dark grout: patchy staining

    I have used dark grey grout with crackle metro tiles, the idea being that the grout stains the cracks before applying sealant and gives it an aged look. However, the tiles have stained very irregularly: some tiles just atined in patches, some have not taken stain at all. Any ideas what i can do...
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    Bathroom Tiles on Walls Cracking- Any Ideas?

    Hi and thanks for letting me post on here. Sorry if this is a long post, trying to just do the main points as it's been a bit of a nightmare. The problem is with the wall tiles in our new bathroom. It was tiled last July with British Ceramic Tile V&A tiles. These are ceramic 152mm x 152mm. We...
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    Sigma Sigma 1A2 KERA-LIFT Tile Lifting System 1A2

    As per the title. Used for one project only and in as new condition. Paid £1038.o0 for it from pro-tiler a month or so ago. Hoping to get 75% of what I paid which equals £778.00.
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    Porcelain Hairline crack repair advice

    Hi All, We have just discovered a hairline crack in one of our 6mm italian porcelain tiles. Its in quite a high traffic area and i would like to try and repair it. Im more concerned with reducing the chances that the tile gets worst and starts to move. Im less concerned with the appearance...
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    Cracked and debonded floor tiling

    hi I am new to this forum. Wanted to get some advise if possible. I had a new tiled floor laid a couple of years ago. The tiles have started to crack soon after completion and are now a complete mess. The floor build up is a timber hoist floor spaced at 300mm centres with 18mm ply board...
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    Cracking glaze months later

    Hi all. I've recently tiles a kitchen splashback with 300 X 100 X 8mm johnsons ceramic tiles onto a solid wall. 3 months later the customer calls me to say 2 tiles are cracked. Looking at the job I find 4 further cracked tiles but it's the glaze that's cracked. The cracks run in different...
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    Grout Cracking on floor

    Just after some advice really! I’ve just tiled the bathroom and tiled the wall and floors and grouted etc. However one week on, we have now notice small crack appearing in the grout. We were afraid this would happen. Our floor was floor boarded, we decided to go for backerboards to restrict...
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    Tiles cracked base of walk in shower?

    Hi, can anyone please offer a reason why the uptiles at the front of 2 ensuite walk in showers (below the shower screen) have cracked along the top corner edge? It's not just the grout that is cracked but the actual tiles themselves have cracked as well. The same thing has happened in 2 of the...
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    Advice please- adhesive under crack matting, how important?

    We have wet underfloor heating and a screed down on our new kitchen floor. We bought crack matting after reading up to put down under or limestone tiles. Research said we needed to use full screed of flexible adhesive and then the crack matting, then adhesive and the tile. The tiler has then...
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    Preparation New UFH screed with a few cracks.

    Hi, thread over the UFH section, it's sort of moved onto prep. Cementainous screed with some cracks. Plan to deal with as below: 1. Sand/hoover/seal? Is the seal bit needed? 2. Fill any cracks I can with Resincoat Epoxy Crack Repair Filler. 3. Kerakoll Idrobuild Tex as uncoupling membrane 4...
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    Advice needed grout cracked

    Good evening, looking for a bit of advice. Had a new bathroom fitted a couple of months ago and grout in all corners has hairline cracks. Builder has regrouted once and covered with clear silicone. However, has cracked again under sealant. Is Mapei grout and matching sealant colour isn't great...
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    Tiles not adhered, hollow sound and cracked grout

    just looking for some advice as to what has gone wrong. Used a local plumber who came highly recommended, unfortunately the guy I normally use was mega busy and couldn’t fit me in for over 6 months and we couldn’t wait that long. Summary Kitchen floor, wooden floorboards, porcelain tiles...
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    Hair line crack on cement tile

    The attached image shows a hair line crack on some cement floor tiles about 4 ft in length that starts at the wall and runs to the middle of the room. The tiles were laid by a professional about 14 months ago in my upstair bathroom - regular 1960 's timber frame house. There was also some...
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    Aus Crack in tiled floor

    Hello. Our house was built in 1966 and the kitchen was extended in 1973, the new floor was laid with Platt quarry tiles. Until last month we had no problems. Then I noticed a 10ft long hairline crack along the line of the join between the old and new solid floors. Two surveyors have said...
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