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    Movement Joint?

    I'm fixing 36 m2 of 600 x 600 glazed porcelain onto SLC'd electric UFH onto 10mm Marmox onto screed using Keraquick. The tiling continues into another room of 10 m2 without the UFH. Would you put a movement joint in the tiles at the doorway between the heated and unheated parts? If so, is it...
    • Rookery
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    • aus joint movement usa
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    Advice on large area tiling - movement joints and back buttering .

    Hi guys Im tiling a couple of big jobs soon , a 95 and a 200 meter . Im in Australia bit the aus site is very low on traffic , so thought i could ask here to help a fellow pommie out . Ive a couple of questiOns , one is on movement joints- do you follow the standards - where in the floor do...
    • Davesax
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    • advice aus back joints large movement tiling usa
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    Marble floor movement resin fill

    Hi, I have a problem with very slight movement in marbe floor ties laid 2 years ago, the issue seems to be with the adhesive and methd ( dod and dab) of laying . After lots of Q&As, i came to the understanding that the only fix would be to lift and relay. However I got a marble tile restoration...
    • PeteHardy
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    • aus fill floor marble movement resin usa
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    Marble Floor Tile Movement & Cracks

    Hi , Can anyone help ? I had a kitchen and hallway laid with marble tiles in August 2010, unfortunatley I'm now seing movement in a fair amount of the tiles albeit not a lot of movement but enough to have cracked the grout in some places , and in others the tiles have cracked. The tiles were...
    • PeteHardy
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    • aus crack cracking cracks debonding floor floor tile marble movement tile usa
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    tiling cracked and movement

    tiling was done in kitchen and hallway last july two weeks ago a tile cracked there is movement and clicking noise in centre of floor another tile lifted noi bother and some grout/adhesive on back then another cracked. its a house that is ten years old the plywood they used was 6mm. ceramic...
    • angela3
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    • aus crack cracked cracking debonding movement tiling usa
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    Movement Joint

    I've got a job coming up to tile new extension to dining room. I've got plenty of time as new screed not even laid yet. Do i need a movement joint where existing screed meets new? I have googled but am having probs identifing which type to go for (schulter) and who actually sells it. This is...
    • aph257
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    • joint movement usa
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    Movement Joint??

    Got a job coming up soon where they have built a new extension to the existing kitchen. The floor will be tiled throughout the existing kitchen and the new extension using large format porcelain tiles. The floor to the new extension has been screeded upto the same height of the existing kitchen...
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    Movement joint quandary

    Doing a 45msq floor this week, i know i'v got to put a movement joint in, but the problem is that its chiseled edge porcelain, in a opus pattern and a straight joint will look terrible. I was thinking would it be possible for me to use the grout joint and just fill it with silicon so the movment...
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    Movement in bath and wall - should i be concerned?

    I'm in the process of doing our main bathroom. We have had a shower added to the bath (i.e you stand up in the bath and shower rather than a seperate shower cube) and i've noticed that after standing in the bath to get the existing tiles and Silicon off, the bath is moving and the wall is...
    • YADT
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    • bath movement should usa wall
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    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Floor movement

    Hi y'all sorry to talk shop on a Sunday but I've got a bit of a head scratcher and wanted to see if you guy's could help. Went to look a fix job for an old couple who recently had their dining room tiled in 330x330 ceramic tiles 8 sq m(nothing to special). However a month on and the grout is...
    • PJ Tiling
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    • floor movement usa
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    Tile Movement when adhesive setting?

    I have been doing a job with some 600 x 300 on walls and floors. Tiles have been fixed to concrete floor and plasterboard walls. The tiles when fixed had been nice and flat and came in the next day and the floor is like a bloody skateboard park as are the walls and i know i never fixed like...
    • michaelb4348
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    • adhesive movement setting tile tile adhesive usa
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    Silicon for movement joints: acrylic or pure?

    sorry, i'm sure this has been asked many times but the search is broken. Silicon for movement joints (in bathrooms primarily). is acrylic Silicon ok or does it harden up too much? do you guys normally use pure Silicon?
    • SpunkyTheMonkey
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    • joints movement silicon silicone usa
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    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Movement Joints

    Movement Joints Although at first glance thet dont appear to move, tiles,screed and concrete are "living" materials. Even massive structures made of these materials are constantly subject to form changes (deformation). Such deformations are caused by drying, loads,changes in moisture content...
    • Rich
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    • joints movement usa
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    DITRA and movement joints

    Note on movement joints: Ditra must be seperated at the existing movement joints. If Ditra is used as a waterproofing layer, the joints between the sheets must be covered with Schluter -KERDI-FLEX band. Movement joints must be continued in the tile covering, as specified by the applicable...
    • Rich
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    • anti-crack ditra floor joints matting membrane movement schluter systems uncoupling usa
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    movement joints

    Afternoon All, Please can you help I have a couple of queries that i would appreciate you input on . I am looking for clarity with regard to tile movement joints in a swimming pool.The pool in question is 25m in length but has no construction joints as it was poured in 1 hit . BS 5385...
    • kate m
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    • joints movement usa
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    Expansion / Movement Joint Question?

    Hi All I finally completed tiling my bathroom (4 walls and a floor) and now I'm ready to start grouting but before I start I have a a couple of questions regarding the movement joints that I hope someone here can answer. 1) When applying the grout, can you recommend any techniques for...
    • Stealth
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    • expansion joint movement usa
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    Is the customer always right? movement joints!

    Now, I expect most of you here have a set of terms and conditions which your "domestic" customers must accept when you work for them. I am big on movement joints especially internal corners and especially vertical internal corners in shower areas. (you might guess where this is going). My...
    • turnip
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    • customer joints movement usa
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    Movement joints on a 18m2 timber floor??

    hey up guys, ive got a 18m2 floor to do, its timber floor and im plying it with 15mm WBP (or would you use 18mm?), the tiles being used are just glazed ceramic 300x300x8, would you guys recommened puttin a movement joint in the floor? Cheers
    • cp3147
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    • floor joints movement timber usa
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    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Movement & Expansion Joints

    Many suspected adhesive failure calls I visit, leave out vital expansion or movement joints where they are required. Where a customers concrete base extension meets the suspended timber floor of the original house, and vast meterage of flooring on top of UFH. There are a few ways in which these...
    • GazTech
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    • expansion expansion joints joints movement usa
    • Replies: 35
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    Movement Joints, Expansion Joints And Control Joint Profiles.

    Movement Joints, Expansion Joints And Control Joint Profiles from Schlüter® The movement joints, expansion joints and control joint profiles of our Schlüter-DILEX series offer maintenance free and functional solutions for all relevant movement joints in tile coverings. The...
    • DHTiling
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    • expansion expansion joints joint joints movement profiles usa
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum

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