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I am installing a shower/wet room in an upstairs on suite. Shower tray will be installed and three walls tiled to form the shower area. All the walls are rendered/plastered brick. The floor is hardwood boarded with a 6mm OSB overlay. Do I need to tank the walls and floor with it being a...
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I installed 12x24 wall tile in my shower remodel. I realize now that I should have used a 1/2 x 1/2 trowel, but used a 1/4"x1/4" trowel. I back buttered and troweled each tile as well as the wall. I pullled up tiles every so often and always had good coverage of the back. The tiles...
I'm redoing our bathroom and looking for some advice on tiling backer boards in relation to the external masonry walls. We're going to get a tiler in to do the actual tiling but I'm not sure how to prepare the walls.
We have two internal 'paramount' walls (a separate headache for another day)...
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I have some lovely Mexican terracotta tiles (glazed on one side only) which are meant for interior use only.
I am trying to work out if I can seal the tiles with something to make them frost proof, and then stick them to a rendered exterior wall that has been painted. This is not new...
I have recently stripped the bathroom. I have 2 walls in non water area. One wall is new plasterboard and the other wall is skimmed plasterboard that I have managed to get most of the paint off though planing to use a 120grit orbiter to clean off any loose pain
Both these walls will be tiled...
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Hi all, I've just joined the forum. I am renovating my 30s semi. I am a diyer and I have just removed some original tiles from a 1932 bathroom in my house. They were in bad condition and cracked so had to go sadly. Thing is, I want to retile, probably porcelain. Underneath the tiles...
Hi Everyone thanks for having me on the this forum ill try not to break any rules.
I am diyer these days but have 15+ years (in my past life) in the plastering and drylining trades.
I have had to carry out extensive works in my garden this summer to install drainage to carry water away from a...
I am planning to tile bathroom with large porcelain tiles 1200x600 over water-resistant backer boards ( 2 walls timber, 2 walls bricks ).
Initially I bought mapei standard C2TE (after watching video recommendations and due to little experience I assumed it will be easier to manage with standard...
We are currently in the process of having our bathroom refitted. We’ve been on holiday whilst he has been here but he has been able to contact us the entire time we’ve been away.
He acknowledged that the tiles on the mirror wall are uneven but said that is due to the uneven walls behind. As...
I have just joined the forum and I'm hoping for some advice. I had a leak in my shower which now needs retiling. I have replaced the area of water damaged plasterboard with a sheet of aquapanel. The shower tray is remaining in place and I am now planning to tank/waterproof the three walls that...
Hi I’m fitting a Nova Frameless 1000 x 800 Sliding Door Shower Enclosure with a low profile shower tray that you lay on sand and cement. I’ve fitted Some aqua boards and where I’m fitting the enclosure the walls are slight out of plum by about 10-15mm.
I’ve already primed the walls with Mapei...
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I'm renovating my 2nd floor master bath. I'm about to lay down tile in three areas... on the shower floor first, then the his and her side bathroom floors, and finally the shower walls - in that order.
My question is...
Should i grout immediately after each tiled area's mortar it...
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Advice would be appreciated on whether I should use some sort of levelling compound to even out irregular lippage on the existing tiles before I start, or whether I should be okay with back buttering or otherwise increasing/ decreasing the height of adhesive whenever I encounter a...
Starting to get fed up of the plastic boarding I keep seeing on walls in bathrooms and shower rooms at mates, in hotels, in pubs and even airport lounge now!
The amount of times I see it used as a 'sod it lets just stick some boarding over this and get paid and gone' product rather than...
I need help on what prep I need to do.
I have read on the forums here and I seem to be going round in circles. I have a small bathroom which is stripped back to the following.
wall 1 - masonry red brick
wall 2 - masonry red brick
wall 3 - part stud wall with top 1/4 moistureboard attached...