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A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation in a dwelling or in a commercial establishment. A modern middle-class residential kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator, and worktops and kitchen cabinets arranged according to a modular design. Many households have a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and other electric appliances. The main functions of a kitchen are to store, prepare and cook food (and to complete related tasks such as dishwashing). The room or area may also be used for dining (or small meals such as breakfast), entertaining and laundry. The design and construction of kitchens is a huge market all over the world.
Commercial kitchens are found in restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, hospitals, educational and workplace facilities, army barracks, and similar establishments. These kitchens are generally larger and equipped with bigger and more heavy-duty equipment than a residential kitchen. For example, a large restaurant may have a huge walk-in refrigerator and a large commercial dishwasher machine. In some instances, commercial kitchen equipment such as commercial sinks is used in household settings as it offers ease of use for food preparation and high durability.In developed countries, commercial kitchens are generally subject to public health laws. They are inspected periodically by public-health officials, and forced to close if they do not meet hygienic requirements mandated by law.

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    What's wrong with my new kitchen tiles?

    Hi. I am a mum of 3 young kids. I've just had a new kitchen and extension and got a lovely, porcelain tiled floor throughout. Unfortunately though the tiles are hideous to clean! I actually have to scrub them with a scourer and fairly strong grout remover every time I need to clean them, which...
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    Sealant for kitchen tiles

    We want to use a small number of floor tiles as a splash-back behind a cooker in the kitchen. Do we need to use a special type of sealany for this job? if so, which?
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    I want to change the grout colour on my kitchen tiles

    I have just had my kitchen walls tiled and I don't like the colour of the grout. I would prefer it to be pink or green (tiles are white). Could I just get a felt-tipped pen and go over the grout? Does anyone know of a valid reason why this wouldn't work?
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    New apartment - loose/damaged kitchen tiles, need a tiler!

    Hi, first post here so apologies for mistakes! I wonder if I could possibly have your advice regarding a kitchen tile issue. I recently purchased an apartment in Stevenage which has a tiled kitchen floor, however upon buying the property I noticed that one tile was damaged and several were...
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    My porcelain kitchen tiles are lifting - help.....

    We put down 40sqm of porcelain tiles in the kitchen. We have under floor heating which we commission for weeks before the floor was laid, we used flexible adhesive. It begun to lift a few months after it was laid. The tiles lift then the grout crack. It has only done this in parts of the...
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    cracking porcelain kitchen tiles, advice needed

    Hi there, we had 60 x 60 cm white polished porcelain tiles laid in our kitchen and hallway 2 yrs ago.Last year a few cracked, this year a few more.The tiles are laid over hardibacker board and 18mm plywood, below that we have water based underfloor heating that was installed on a joisted...
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    Locked in dust and dirt in slate kitchen tiles

    Hi There Aboout 3 months ago our builder laid and sealed our slate floor. They used Fila Slate Protector. It seems however, that they dod not clean the floor properly and sealed in the general builders dust. The slate tiles now look continually dirty, we can't remove the ingrained dirt...
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    subfloor for kitchen tiles

    hi went to a very small job this morning which turned into customer asking me to finish whole kitchen !!, including tiling the floor. floor is 2m x 3m well fixed tongue and groove. floor is solid with no loose boards. having read several other threads on here i'm still not sure what is the best...
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    Kitchen Tiles - need some advice

    Our kitchen is in desperate need of updating. The units themselves, however, are ok. It's the tiles that are the problem. Is it possible to remove the tiles without affecting the units and work surfaces and simply retile? That would seem to be a much more cost effective way of updating without...
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    Kitchen tiles

    Hello guys not sure if this is in the correct part but im looking at changing my kitchen tiles which i did 3 years ago, which i wish i had never done cause i made a right mess of it cause i never tiled before so i thought i would give it a go and thought this can not be to hard how wrong was i...
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    my kitchen tiles

    Well id done my kitchen a few months ago and just finished my 2week tiling course,So id thought i would put some pics up.In the last pic the break fast bar runs short of the wall.Dont know why the kitchen fitter didnt run to the wall.just wondering if i should carry on the tiles underneath ideas...
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    Lay Kitchen Tiles DIY?

    Getting tilers to my remote property is like finding a needle in that haystack.... should I tackle the 25 sq. M kitchen floor myself? Laying riven slate 300mm x 300mm tiles on a concrete floor that is nearly flat - and that is one bit that worries me.... there is a slight ridge, around 5mm...
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    Laying Porcelain kitchen tiles - HELP

    Hi all, First post here, just wondered if you could tell me if i am about to do this OK? We have brought the following tiles Homebase - Make a House a Home I know i probably shouldnt of brought them from Homebase but the wife wanted them :) Old tiles have been cleaned off floor, which is...
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    Kitchen tiles with UFH on T&G. Advice needed.

    I'm looking at tiling our kitchen in the next month or so and trying to work out the best way to do it. It is approximately 9 m2. The original T&G floor boards are in good shape and appear to deflect very little. I'm looking for advice on how I can best tile and fit UFH. I'm trying to keep the...
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    Tiling over kitchen tiles

    I want to , rather my wife wants me to, tile over the existing tiles in my kitchen. We have standard ceramic tiles on the wall and do not fancy taking them off for fear of damaging the plaster and more importantly the recently put on Granite Transformations worksurface which butts up to the...
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    ever tiled with broken up tiles masqerading as kitchen tiles

    Anybody worked with crappy italian tiles that have been broken up - possible from larger floor tiles.. in a crude way to give an irregular edge?

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