Recent content by diynextime

c'mon chaps, now you're getting silly! Surely throwing myself on the floor and crying will suffice?? - It usually works for me anyway.

you know, I just think I might..... - can i say you said??!! I've never had this trouble before and I've always used powdered grout. I thought it might be my technique, but i've got one of those lovely expensive rubbery float things, I used it to do floor tiles (with powder grout) and got a...

Oh my god!!! I haven't laughed so much for ages!!! I thought it was entertaining enough just following some of the squabbles around the threads, but this is a classic. My son is a policedog handler, I'll have to pass on the relevant advice, and his grandfather WAS that constable on the...

.. bathroom is tiny, 68" in both directions, I think if I did a complete wall in one type it wouldn't show at all, and there is one place where the join may show, I suppose the answer may be to do the bit where it won't show first, and may complete the other wall with the readymix? I got up...

I agree, but i'm on a very tight budget, and I can do a good job of tiling and patching but not confident to do plasterboarding :( mind you, if I'd found you people before starting, I might have tackled it - never mind, ther's always next time!! :lol:

:lol: :twisted: :lol: you don't do much gardening then??!! It was seriously good though, - the blade is strong enough to shift the tiles, thin enough to be accurate, and allows a shallow enough angle to avoid going straight through into the plasterboard.

Oh! - sorry, it's white grout, waterproof, from wickes, Thanks! .... and of course I will be carrying on with white - sorry, it's late, i'm tired and I've been grouting since 7am.... ...so my question is answered, I'll go for it! many thanks again!

Just in case it helps anyone, we started taking ceramic bathroon tiles off using a hammer and a brick bolster, trying to be as careful as possible, but it still massacred the plasterboard. I found we did a much better job using a garden paving weeding knife as a chisel, one that looks like...

:D I'm new to this site, and just wanted to say hello and thank you; I found the answer for most of my questions by browsing the forum, unfortunately there was one bit of advice I missed to my cost! I'm tiling our bathroom, and you helped with removing old tiles, tiling over old tiles and...