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I work as a self employed tiler and after moving in to my new home decided to re fit the bathroom and install a shower tray and frameless enclosure. I purchased 6 square metres of antique smooth crackle glaze tiles from Walls & Floors.co.uk and used them for the two walls of the shower...

Saw a customer today who had called me in to look at some cracked tiles, I was expecting the worse, but the cracks were very fine and bizarrely the tiles we not loose at all. She doesn't want themn ripped up as has no replacements and doesn't want the hassle, she enquired as to whether you can...

Afternoon all. Have recently said hello to theforum and finally got around to posing some questions on a bathroom refurb. Firstof all, having removed the 30 year old cappuccino coloured bathroom suite withmatching tiles I am left with plastered walls that have a nice selection ofcracks across...

Hi Everyone, Am hoping someone can help with some advice here. I have had 120sq mtrs of honed Opera limestone (600x600) tile laid in a renovation over a new slab. The slab has expansion joints in doorways, round the perimiter and down the centre of the largest room (59m2). After laying the new...

Morning! Bit of advise needed. I've pretty much finished tiling 4 bathrooms and 3 Ensuites in a new build but first day back yesterday and 2 wall tiles have cracked on a low stud wall which makes the sink unit. It's around a cupboard opening and I can see the plaster behind has cracked in line...

Hi there, I am at a loss about how to go about figuring out the reason over 50 tiles on the wall of my newly installed shower have cracked. The tiler has been round and was non-committal about the reasons. Hopefully you guys can help. The bathroom was finished 3 months ago and within...

Hi there I am new to this forum. In june 2014 my bathroom was retiled. Old tiles removed and replaced by Topps Tiles Lenna Grey 40 x 24cm. Two months later and they are cracking,look like inflated in the middle, craking in the edges. Topps Tiles manager came to inspect and initially thinks it...

hi guys has anyone got any knowledge on these tiles we laid 55 mts 10 of which are in a porch area all with Dunlop standard set adhesive , the area is south facing and has glass windows down one side floor to ceiling , after a year these tiles are popping up and are warped only in this porch...

Hi Guys, So I'm currently undertaking a renovation on my first ever house. We'd finished all the tiling and I was so happy, but when we then got the plumbers in to finish the bathroom suite installation, they realised they'd forgotten to pull through the waste water pipe for the toilet. What...

Hi guys, Been reading the helpful advice here but now need some of my own! I had a tiler in to do my bathroom and long story short he started then disappeared citing family problems. Not much I could do except carry on where he left off and decided to finish myself as had all the tiles and...

Hi This is my first post on here :) I've been getting quotes for laying polished porcelain tiles in a recent extension. We have underfloor heating (wet? - connected to gas boiler, not electric) with a screed over the top. One of the tilers who's quoted says we need anti-crack matting but our...

Hi All, We had a new bathroom fitted just over 2 months including new floor and wall tiles (floor to ceiling wall tiles). The walls tiles were laid on the existing wall substrate as the builder advised it was in good condition. All was fine until 2 weeks when we noticed a tile had several...

I've been asked to tile what looks like a cracked red screed. It could be some sort of water proof membrane and is about an inch thick which has been laid over the original floor. The building is hundreds of years old. It's mostly solid although it's fair to say that some of it is 'floating'...

Hello all, Can anyone help advise what may have caused our bathroom wall tiles to crack? We need to know the reason so that we can resolve this with our builder and who bears the cost of repair. The cracks are on a stud wall that runs along the length of the bath, and the tiles runs from the...

Hi I've noticed that the grout has cracked most of the way down where two walls meet in the area around the shower. It's not a power shower and water isn't running down the wall, but obviously it is getting splashed. See pictures of crack. Second one a close-up, if it helps. What should I do...

Hello I was hoping somebody could help me as both my bathroom and kitchen floor tiles are cracked. These were both laid in October last year. I'll address both floors separately as the tiles are cracking in different ways/places. Bathroom This floor is cement encaustic tiles and i first...

Good evening. I looked at a job where the client wants the swimming pool surround tile with UFH. I've done quite a bit of tiling in the house but they've asked if I could tile the swimming pool area. It's currently got a grubby bit of carpet laid over the existing screed. The problem is some...

Hi all, At some point i may need to lift a ceramic 300mmx300mm tile (has a small chip which may propergate) The tile is sat on the following build - insulation, heating mat, SLC, addy (c5mm bed). what is the best approach to avoid catching the cables? Many thanks, Dan

I would be grateful for any advice you could give me. I have recently installed 600x450 travertine tiles in a fairly large conservatory 6.5m x 4.5m over wet UFH. Used 8-10mm beds of flexible adhesive and flexible grout with 3mm spacers. My father did the installation. He's a bricklayer so is...

How's about this Nothing to do with me,it's a house I'm working on,he wants me to re tile bathroom,every wall tile,and I mean every,has a crack in it