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Evening all. For those of you have read my post on whether to tile a bowling toilet club floor. Thanks to Geoff and others I have sufficient information to tackle the prep work with confidence. The walls are not being tiled unfortunately, but are having some form for aqua panel with a marble...

3 bathroom floors, all with wet UFH, currently have movement in them. Two of them have walk-in shower areas, grout has broken in many places, tiles have lost alignment, tiles move and some are so loose it wouldn't take much effort to get them up. After the existing tiles are taken up what is the...

Hi. I have been called back to two jobs i done about two years ago where the travertine has split on the floor. Both jobs have a hairline split in two adjacent tiles with the split running through. Both jobs are on sound timber floors with 12 mm hardibacker and palace flexi rapid set spread with...

I need an access panel in a floor for the stop ****. I have seen plastic ones for walls but nothing for floors. What i need is something like a galvanised steel tray/frame to house a 300mm tile bonded to a piece of ply which can be set into the floor. I does not need to be hinged or anything...

We are delighted to announce that the Tile Association has published a full revision to the Technical Document Tiling to Heated Floors. Click here for the full article.. RSS feed from For tiles, tilers, tiling and the tiles industry: The Tile Association.

Hi does anyone know the minimum fall per meter a screed must have to let water run away ? Have a garage floor to tile builder has 30mm fall in 6 meters I think double that would about right but not sure of the exact spec you need . Thanks in advance

hi laying on chipboard floor,no more ply 12mm to bring up levels using their adhesive and screws. this is to a floor connecting to a hall, the hall has been tiled with trevertine and a thick bed presume flexible adhesive and grout onto a coni floor. i'm going to lay pocelean tiles on both...

I need too replace a old warped chip board floor and then over board with ply in a kitchen 9mtrs, The kitchen has just been fitted and the plinths are on, also newish skirting board has bee fitted last year. My question is what's the best way to take the floor up? and where do I start and...

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Hi, In the process of pricing 30m2 of flooring on a floating floor filled with polystyrene balls and no joists, plenty of bounce in the floor. Anybody tiled on a substrate like this and if so any tips. thanks.

Hello guys. There is going to be a shower over the bath, no power shower though. Tiles on the walls are 15x15cm, only around the bath, on the floor marble mosaic. our tiler thinks that occasional shower is not going to affect the walls which are plastered. I was thinking that he should use some...

There's been two or three discussions on here about floating floors and wether they should or should not be tiled. Someone (maybe PJC?) suggested in one of the posts to put a laser level on the floor and see how walking around would effect the laser. With a bit of time on my hands i got a...

Easter time is almost here! A time for relaxing, and having the family over. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a new kitchen or bathroom to show off? Tiling is the easy way to completely transform the look of your home. Scrape off those old, drab tiles, and replace them with some stylish, modernistic...

Walls and Floors are at it again, with more fantastic savings on tiles, adhesives, grouts and accessories. Their current Spring Sale brings up to 60% off across their entire site. Were you looking to do a little Spring DIY across the Easter holidays? Why not freshen up the kitchen or bathroom...

hello everyone. i have a floor to tile 20 m2 with porcelain tiles 400*400. it`s a dining room and conservatory. conservatory will be build in a week time. the floor in conservatory will be screeded same level as in dining room and customer wants the tiles flow through. i told the customer...

When is*renovating stone floors*and walls the solution? Renovating floors*and walls is a task that is difficult to avoid if you own a natural stone surface for a long period.*Over time natural and artificial stone walls and floor tiles can become … Continue reading → More... Auto Feed from LTP...

How do I keep that clean shiny look for my tile floor? One thing we are told time and time again is that our customers really like the appearance of their floor tiles when they have just been mopped. The … Continue reading → More... Auto Feed from LTP Blog LTP Sealers Technical Blog

Hi there first post and after some advice. We've just had an extension built and the downstairs area is 50m2 which I will be tiling with travertine. I used to refit bathrooms for a living and also tiled a kitchen floor of about 20m2 in travertine. The floor has underfloor heating and I will...

Hi, Sorry to be a pain, but so many adhesives, such a broad price range & I'm easily confused.. I'm glueing & screwing 6mm orbry boards to sound t&g floor boards. Can you advise me on a brand / type of adhesive to use? 6mm notched has been suggested.is this ok? I will screw the boards down...