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Hi, I am trying to fit a new toilet into a bathroom, but I can't connect the soil pipe. Here's the problem: The soil pipe is raised 6cm from the floor. The base of the ceramic connector on the toilet is 15cm high- so the connection needs to drop 9cm. The toilet is designed to fit flush...

Hi all, Just for the record I finished the tiling (got delayed- it didn't really take "that" long), and I'm really pleased with the results. Yes, I can see some imperfections, but they are mainly due to an exterior wall being less than straight, but it looks good to me, and everyone else...

Just for the record, I got an Einhel cutter off E-bay for £60 including delivery, and it is absolutely superb. Very very easy to use, fairly quiet, and quick. Many thanks for the advice

I wanted a wet room, but felt it was probably beyond my abilities for a first attempt. Also the drainage for the floor was expensive, so I decided to go with a fully tiled bathroom instead.

Tozzy, There won't be any skirting boards whaen finished- I am tiling the walls flush down to the soon to be finished floor. Anyway- I have just realised I can't start until tomorrow- so the plaster should be virtually dry by then anyway. Oh, one other reason for plastering was to give...

Thats what I was hoping you would say- the skirting board bit will be done last as it's the bottom row of tiles! I will start tomorrow! :shock:

Just to fill in the huge holes my angle grinding had caused- had to cut big channels to submerge the cables and plumbing. Also I ripped out the skirting boards, and there was no plaster behind- so no suitable surface to tile onto. I was hoping to get away with tiling as the channels are only...

As many of the regular tiling contributers will know, I am about to embark on my first tiling project- a bath room. I have installed a new shower (well the plumbing and cabling, and had to do a lot of remedial work filling etc. This means that the plaster had to be applied quite thickly in...

Not necessarily using either- for example in 1 room that was a childs room the previous owners had painted the walls- which looked ok, but had then used some kind of colourless paste that was glow in the dark. As I didn't want their grandsons name looming up at me for the rest of eternity I had...

Since everyone was so helpful on my tiling question, I thought I would try another. The house I have has been decorated by the munsters. When taking off wallpaper I frequently discover the walls are painted underneath. As I am predominantly painting the walls this is generally no problem...

Thankyou once again everyone for sparing the time. Gone for an Einhell one.

Hi again, I need to buy a tile cutter. I have a £50 voucher I need to use for e-bay, so that seemed like a good place to start. Anyone care to have a look and recommend a good one?

Once again, a big thankyou. I had worked out I couldn't do full tiles from the corners, and think I have a plan that should work. However, just to be on the safe side I am going to lay out the batten as if I was going to start tiling, then just use blue tac to hold the tiles in place as a...

Thankyou once again for the help. As I said before- the corners are not true, so I guess I can expect a lot of wastage. Fortunately the tiles themselves are pretty cheap (B&Q urban beige fyi), unlike the adhesive!! I have been stuggling as the walls are 1350mm wide (with a couple of cm...

Thankyou very much for that. I think I will try a full paper plan, and see how I go from there. There is no question that the walls are not perfectly square, so as I understand it I am better having the back wall symetrical, and the side walls continuing round. It also looks that I should...

Hi, I bought my tiles for a small en suite over the weekend, and my girlfriend was particularly taken with the arrangement of tiles where the rows are aligned in the same way as bricks, rather than being in line both vertically and horizontally. Does anyone know of a guide, or have advice...

Well at least it doesn't seem to be such a stupid question now! The tiles are 250*300mm, with an raised grid on the back (presumably to aid adhesion). The walls are a mixture of aquapanel around the shower, and plasterboard/skimmed plaster in the other areas of the room. The walls are...

I am about to tile my walls and floor in the en suite shower/toilet room. I've done lots of research, and have aqua panelled, am about to prime, laid down plywood on the floor boards......and have only 1 question left before I start- What size notches should I have on the trowels :roll...

Thankyou very much for your replies- they were a big help Andy

I am about to tackle the plumbing on the basin I have already asked stupid questions on :roll: I have got my plan organised, but when I went to B & Q and saw the prices of the speedfit stuff I changed my mind pretty sharply :shock: I am now planning on running my water pipes up using...