Ceramic floor tiles - to seal or not?

davelx

OK. I'm about to tile my bathroom floor. Sub-floor is down (12mm WBP on 18mm floorboards, screwed at 200mm spacing).

Tiles will be 33cm x 33cm grey ceramic with matt finish. BAL Rapidset flexible to fix them, BAL Superflex Wide Joint grey grout.

Do the tiles need sealing? If so, what with? I can't find any reference to a suitable sealer on Topps web-site and I'm concerned about the grout staining the tiles, and also general staining over time.

Thanks for any advice.

Dave

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ColJack · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:02 pm Post Subject:

apply the grout with an icing bag?

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davelx · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:22 pm Post Subject:

I'm hopeless with an icing bag (tried using one once - got cream all up my arm

)

I do have a very large syringe!

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jefoss · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:04 pm Post Subject:

dont worry about sealing the tiles fella, ceramic never need it.

and as for the staining from the grout you can compleatly cover them when you grout making the worst mess youll ever see and as long as you wipe them off with a decent sponge and just water they will be clean.

once youve finished and grout is dry mop as usual.

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davelx · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:11 pm Post Subject:

Thanks! That's next weekend taken care of then.

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ColJack · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:15 pm Post Subject:

got my kitchen to do... if my back stops playing up..
and my knee now too...

I WISH it was muy bathroom.. I'd get away with 2 packs of tiles in there.. not the 11 packs I've got for the kitchen...

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jefoss · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:06 pm Post Subject:

ColJack wrote:

got my kitchen to do... if my back stops playing up..
and my knee now too...

I WISH it was muy bathroom.. I'd get away with 2 packs of tiles in there.. not the 11 packs I've got for the kitchen...

get someone in then!

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ColJack · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:44 pm Post Subject:

can't afford to..
on the dole at the moment so money is tight..
Dad is paying for my kitchen since Nan died and he had a new car and gave his old car to my brother.. ( 52 plate renault Meganne Scenic..)

I also have lots of time on my hands..

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jefoss · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:55 pm Post Subject:

ColJack wrote:

can't afford to..
on the dole at the moment so money is tight..
Dad is paying for my kitchen since Nan died and he had a new car and gave his old car to my brother.. ( 52 plate renault Meganne Scenic..)

I also have lots of time on my hands..

sorry to hear that fella, im sure something will come up soon, it seems to be getting better out there.

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ColJack · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:14 pm Post Subject:

if all else fails, the bloke accross the road from my Mom is retiring in november, I've got dibs on his space at his firm..

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jefoss · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:17 pm Post Subject:

ColJack wrote:

if all else fails, the bloke accross the road from my Mom is retiring in november, I've got dibs on his space at his firm..

at least there is hope

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davelx · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:48 pm Post Subject:

Job jobbed, looks great. I tried the syringe out of interest and it actually works very well, but it is a bit slow to keep filling it up, so I went back to the normal method.

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jefoss · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:08 pm Post Subject:

good work fella

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