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My customer wants a 3 tile pattern with the above sizes. Have any of you chaps got a picture of a floor (or diagram) that you could post so that i could forward on. Have not done a 3 tile pattern for a long while and do not have any pictures of my own. She has got the tiles but i cannot get to...

Tiled a large shower room with 400x250 Matt black ceramic tiles. They have a very slight raised grainy sort of texture. They also had those blobs of squiggly wax on the corner that come off quite easy but no matter how many times i wipe over you can still see where the wax was. Also the...

Sweeping up rubbish on old floorboards using my fingers as a hand brush! Wood splinter about and inch and a half long straight under my thumb nail and under the cuticle. Trust me. painful. Put my hand in the freezer to num it and then pulled splinter out with some long nosed pliers. How about...

Stopped thinking for a nano second whilst working alone on a job early one morning. (sleepless night from new baby twins!) Wanted to take an inch auger bit from my cordless when stupidly held the bit instead of the chuck. Clicked trigger, goodbye palm! Blood every where, very bad injury...

I am able to get a constant supply of timber from roofing and loft conversion companies i work for to use in my wood burning stove. The timber is from roof's of Victorian and Edwardian houses and i was wondering what type timber it is. Obviously completely dry and it does burn relatively quickly...

We have had a new boiler fitted into our home. We have had the system changed from a back boiler/ tank system to a condensing boiler. We have had some issue's with the installer about power flushing the sytem. He has not done one as he said it does not need doing. Can somebody please tell me if...

Hello. Could an expert please tell me if it is good practice to keep a chest freezer in a log cabin. 3 years ago our cabin caught light on a very hot July night at 2am causing a very damaging fire. The fire brigade investigated and said it could have been the fridge freezer that caused the...

When laying slate i first find the largest and thickest tile in the whole batch. When i set out the floor i set it out using the largest tile and cut my gauge rod to suit. I lay 2 courses wide at a time always against a straight edge and 'shuffle' tiles until you get acceptable joint sizes. They...

If it is a ceramic tile you can actually bed the tile straight into the sand/cment. Whilst the screed is still wet, brush the back of the tile with a neat cement/water mix (mix water and cement together until creamy) and tap into the screed. When set, around a couple of days, those tiles are not...

Hi gcol. Had a call to fix 18 metres of caralium. Never heard of them. I know they are not your 'standard' tile. Just needed some info. Cutting, adhesive etc etc? Have you used them? Ta

Any fixers used Caralium floor tiles?

Also important that each tile is fixed 'solid bed'. Use a heavy notched trowel unsuring the complete back of the tile is covered with sticky. The thinner tiles may need buttering up on the backs. Slate is quite soft and i once put a job right where the customer put 4 strategically spaced blobs...

I used to tile Midland Bank floors using BAL pourable. We used it to fix 800mm square granite slabs on very uneven floors. Mix it up like cream,pour onto floor and bed in the slabs. It does set quick although we used to mix it with tepid water and it set even quicker! VERY fast track tiling...

I have been tiling for 22 years now and have no formal qualifications. I work with some very skilled people who also have no qualifications. 'Reg' who taught me has been tiling for 43 years! Cant tell that man a thing about tiling and he also has no qualifications. Time served means everything.

Terrazzo paving is also hard work. All slabs fixed in sand and cement and tiles are heavy with sharpish edges. I have laid many 100's of metres of this stuff and it is back breaking. Although laying them is not a fine art as you can leave 'lips', once surface has been grinded down the surface is...

2 Years ago we had 2 'sash' type UPVC windows fitted to our upstairs front bedroom. Since then i have been concerned about the amount of noise i can hear through them. I can hear people speaking as they walk past my home and cars even gently driving past. So, today i took off the surrounding...

Thanks so much. Im right on the case, they look very useful. No more nibbling porcelain round architraves! Tiling heaven.

I am a ceramic tiler by trade and i have seen a tool in action and i want one but dont know what its called! Laminate and solid wood floor fitters use them and it takes off the bottom of architraves to a chosen depth so the wood slides under, sort of like an angle grinder on its side but the...

Hi, i would score the size you want and then score again at 30mm. Snap the tile at 30mm(it should break if you have a decent cutter) and then 'nip' off the un needed 15mm. Im a tiler and thats how i do it. Give it a try. Good luck.