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So what's the serious answer? I need to fit one of these and can't see an obvious way of securing the sink to the base unit without drilling right through the surface of the sink! The sink is just one piece of sheet metal, there are no apparent brackets, holes or other features that might...

I might be able to get my hands on some "old" but perfectly good PVC double-glazed windows and frames, like the whole unit they pull out of the wall when replacing them. My question is, would they "work" in other settings and can they be built into a wooden stud structure without too much...

Good point, but no - the bottoms are ridged and stamped with a name, etc.

The haze comes off no worries, that was what I was concerned about before I started but it's funny how a completely unexpected problem arises instead! It happens a lot in these things. I think you're right that the fragile bits of grout (sometimes less than a nail's thickness) will come off...

Doesn't the rubbing hard with a towel just tear all of the grout back out of the joints, especially from the shallow lips? It seems that my main problems are where the tiles aren't exactly level. The lip is so shallow in places, like a finger nail's width, that if the tiles are off by this...

Thanks for all the tips, I just had another go and I'm still struggling, that first lip is so fine and shallow that the grout really doesn't want to stay on it, and if there's any height difference between two tiles (very common on this floor...) then it rubs right out of one side. Currently...

It's turning out to be quite hard to get the grout to the surface level, actually. It wears back to lip level on some edges, plus a messy line of grout stuck in the "corner", if that makes sense. Very annoying and will require extensive retouching.

I always imagined that the first sponge-down dilutes the residual surface grout so far that it won't ever set properly anyway, is that what's happening?

Aye, so I've heard. I managed to get the grout film off these ones without too much trouble so I guess they'd been factory sealed somehow? Also I made a lot of mess with the adhesive and that has scrubbed off even weeks later.

My grout says it's suitable for gaps up to 10mm and my "inner gap" here is 5mm, so hopefully that would be OK. Thanks for your experience and advice - I'm a bit worried about trying it, though - all that hard rubbing in the dry grout, into unsealed tiles? Or did you seal them first?

They're all the same, maybe just an odd angle in the photo? http://www.wallsandfloors.co.uk/catrangetiles/quarry-tiles/traditional-quarry/red-7573/11968/?gclid=cm3i7staw8acffohtaodpzuauq I had a go today in a small, inconspicuous area - mainly just to see if the grout will come off the...

I have laid quarry tiles in my kitchen. Their cross section involves a profile on the edge with a first drop to a lip and then the main drop down the side of the tile: Where should I grout to, right to the surface of the tile or just up to that first lip? Thanks,

Hi. I have some "standard" bagged adhesive, apparently sets in 24hrs. This is my first floor tiling attempt and of course it's messy as anything, loads of adhesive all over the joints and the tile surfaces. They're quarry tiles so perhaps prone to staining. But I need to wait a bit before I...

Thanks for the replies. I had a look at it and, remembering times that I've tried to cut simpler threaded items and ruined them or ended up having to make repeated attempts to smooth them off, I decided to go with the "trash the baton" approach instead. A head torch, Classic FM and some surgical...

Or is it a bad idea and likely to result in a poor seal with the pipe/hose (hose in this case) ? The tails for my bath taps unfortunately end up about 2mm off from the face of a baton that forms part of the bath's support on the wall. It's a bit hard to explain but in any case there's not...

Ok, so on my 7th attempt I got it right. I hadn't been cutting on a whole tile because the hole is close to two edges anyway so I didn't think it would make a difference, but I suppose one less narrow border would help a bit and indeed it probably did. I also started the hole from the back...

[/url] Yea, I got this because it was £2.99 and would do any hole size, whereas holesaws were quite expensive where I saw them. Are they much better, won't just run into the same problem?

Hi. I'm trying to use one of these: To cut a 25mm hole in a piece of tile (off the wall) that's only about 45-50mm wide. So there is not much tile on either side of the hole, and after three attempts the tile has cracked in two each time the drill comes close to finishing the hole. I'm...

OK, thanks everyone. I found things to be very busy in the ceiling rose of the same room and believe I have identified the right cable, i.e. the only one which when disconnected left the light operational but the wall cable dead (ascertained with a multimeter across the live and neutral which...

My bathroom had a light (with shaver socket) over the sink. The room has now been re-arranged and there's no longer any particular use for power at that spot on the wall. It's about 2m off the floor and 4 or 5 inches of t&e protrude from the plaster. The point where the cable comes out is...