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Hi all We'll be undertaking our first tiling project soon, not nervous or anything :) We'll be laying quarry tiles onto a suspende timber floor, covered with 18mm WPB ply, on top of which we'll have underfloor heating (cable type) As we'll be requiring a flexible adhesive, I've been...

Hi all we're renovating our entire house, and we're going to lay quarry tiles over underfloor heating in the kitchen. (UFH is Warmup wire; electrical). Neither my wife or myself have ever laid tiles before, but in order to save money, and to learn some new skills, we're going to lay the...

Thanks noseall, helpful information. I have no idea what sort of sealant I should apply, just for some reason I feel that I should leave the brickwork exposed and untreated. I meant to add in my initial post, this is all internal brickwork, so does not require protection from the elements.

thanks for the quick response, I appreciate your help! Things have changed slightly now, we're going for uniform thickness tiles, and have decided to lay them ourselves. If we balls it up, we can attribute it to 'the character of the old house' and chuck an obscene amount of soot over the...

Hi all We live in a farmers cottage, circa 1880 (or earlier, there's nothing on the deeds) that we're in the process of renovating. We've stripped back a lot of existing plaster that was covering a chimney breast, and the plan is ti keep this brickwork exposed, kind of as a feature. The whole...

Hi We are planning to lay quarry tiles in our kitchen. We will be using two types of tile - the main type is a uniform colour, the other will be the odd tile that has discolouration, just to break up the colouring on the floor. the discoloured tiles are 12.5mm thick, however we can get the...

Hi all, hope that someone can advise. We have just had a new kitchen built, and we are planning to lay quarry tiles on the floor. My concern is that they'll be too cold. We're planning underfloor heating, however I do not want to have to run this most days in order to heat the tiles to...