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I'm going to use the mosaic tiles that come on the flexible backing so i can keep the shape of the drainage done by the damp company. The damp co are going to use vandex bb75 with a sand a cement scratch coat, can i tile straight on to the render scratch coat?

its in a vaulted basement area and will be tanked by a damp proofing company using a vandex product so does anyone know anything about grout?

does anyone have any grouting tips for doing a wet room, is a regular waterproof grout good enough? thanks :wink:

I get the idea.... Thanks for your replys All the best

the main hot water pipe is 22mm, comes out of the tank and head straight down to the floors below. the supply for the offending tap t's off into 15mm pipe about 200mm below where the main pipe exits the tank. It then head very slightly uphill! before droping about 50cm and going...

Hi I have a washbasin on the same floor as my hot water tank and the pressure on the hot water is almost non-existant. It starts off as almost none, splutters then trickles. All the other hot water taps are on lower floors and the pressure is fine. is this just a gravity think or air...

Hi the tiles in my basement flat bathroom are falling of and taking a layer of plaster with them, the resulting surface is a flakey render. do i need to replaster the wall before retiling or will a few good coats of unibond surfice thanks

yes, screw down the ply and use floor tile adheise and grout with a flexible aditive to allow for expansion and contraction in the floor, personally i wouldn't worry about insulation

you can always leave the old tile on if they are sound and tile over

i've done loads of floor tiling and never bother with spacers... when wall tiling though the tiles can slip, damn gravity, is it the done thing to always use spacers when wall tiling?

thanks for the help so far... they are the red / terracotta clay tiles

Hi, i have a kitchen with a quarry tiled floor and have recently done a bit of replastering. as the floor was tiled i assumed i could scrape off any crap which fell onto it, however i have tried and am left with a pretty dirty looking floor whatever I do. I am now guessing that the tiles...

Gettting a structural eng. in sounds like great advise to me, I got on in to look at my basement and a 1 hour visit with a report in the post a week later cost me about £60.

Hi ...i am fitting a new bathroom from scratch and was wondering what order to do everthing mainly regarding tiling the floor before or after fitting the bathroom suite...