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I'm going to start this thread, and may it turn into a long winded battle of ideas and thoughts. We clearly have an idiot running our country, GREAT BRITAIN, when it comes down to it, he employs people that think up new ways to con us out of more and more money. Idiots such as George Osbourne...

Just seen a job to quote for where there is a beam block base with an extra layer of blocks bedded in sand cement on top of beam/block base to bring levels up. the stone will be 50mm thick sawn york . this area is approx 35 sq mts = 7 x 5 mts. i had thought of suggesting groundwork contractor...

please any advice would be appreciated :thumbsup: PCI Collastic

Hi all I am wondering if anyone can help? my husband who is not a tiler but gets by grouted our wet room about 2 weeks ago we used the above product with the liquid unibond flexi mix additive a week later our shower began to leak where we realised cracks had appeared between a lot of the...

Hi Just had my bathroom tiled with porselanosa tiles wall tiles 100cm x 33.3cm and floor 44cm x 66cm is granfix multi fix ready mix adhesive suitable to use??

Ive just seen a job , where the make up of existing floor is : beam and block floor,insulation and then screed on top. the builder then loose laid the underfloor water fed heating pipes on top of screed ,fixing wooden battens between the pipes so that they could screw the wood floor down on...

just seen gary the tiler entry on jotm may , which is excellent . dont think even many of the tilers arms members could do this , me included. I am intrigued as to how one would cost this job. tiler is obviously saving the contractor the cost of labour by getting a screeder in , as screed...

Hi I was cutting my tiles with this machine and after the last tile i needed to cut at that time i turned off but when i went to turn back on there was no power to it so i changed the fuse but it still not coming on any suggestions on what is wrong with it or how to fix it would be appreciated...

Hi, I am tiling a shower cubicle and am a bit of a novice - certainly with glass tiles as I have not had to use these before! A few questions if I may......... Am I correct in thinking that it is best to tile the boards in their entirety bfore fitting the cubicle or is it best to fit the...

just want to share what i witnessed last week,i was working up in london ,well croyden,tiling the toilets in the new lidles,the floor area of the main shop 900m2 was already done apart from 145m2,all laid i was told in a week sand and cement,well i couldnt believe it,but at 12,0 clock 6 polish...

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Hello everyone. I have a timber stud wall with hardibacker board and 10mm thick porcelain tiles. I need to fix a shower rail and other various small items to this wall. What is the best method of fixings items to this? I was thinking using the metal plaster board fixings, the ones with...

hi all, been to look at a job I should of done last Christmas but couldn't fit in. custard Ended up using someone else but it has caused no end of problems. Now he as asked me if I can put anything right! Kitchen/dinner is 36m 2 of crap slate effect ceramics. He wants me to re grout floor as it...

:hurray: hello playmates. we have recently laid a stone flag floor in the new kitchen area which I sealed with Stone Guard (resin solvent sealer) once. this was just to get us past the grout stage so it wouldnt go into the riven edges and we could wipe it off. You can clearly see the ones...

Hello there, I'm looking for a tiler who can remove the epoxy grout from the expansion joints and around the bathtub in a tiled ensuite and bathroom without damaging the tiles/substrate/bath and then to fill the gaps with silicone. The ensuite also needs a boxed in section fixing (where the...

Gents, Following on from my nightmare tiling job http://www.tilersforums.com/tiling-forum/51902-dot-dabbed-porcelein-tiles-job-progress.html its about time I looked at the fix. I'm not finished yet but it is coming up. What I'll be left with is a floor which is in three parts. One end is a...

Hi, I have some large porcelain tiles (600x400x11mm). I was planning to use Bal singlepart flex to fix them to wall however someone has advised me to use mosaicfix instead as it has better hold and the tiles are heavy. Is this correct? Thanks Dave

Hi I wonder if someone can help please? We have a porcelain tiled floor in an open-plan kitchen/dining/living area. The tiles have been down now for about 18 months but very soon after the floor was finished, the tiles began to come loose. Having looked at some of the other threads on this...

hello again. going quite well,plumber as done all the first fix,now waiting to tile the room,looking at the picture what would you guys fix this problem.tray is about 30mm away from wall at the non shower end.got a few possibles but not 100%need some expert help.

Dear Tilers. I had a kitchen floor laid by a building contractor in a rear extension which they built last year and it is one of the many things they have bodged. We kicked them offsite but that is another:thumbsdown: topic entirely. About 3 months after the tiles were put down they started...