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Sorry jerry but i guarantee you that your grout is most defininately not waterproof regardless of the additives you put with it. In short the shower area substrates you have been doing will still be getting damaged. The backs of the tiles will still be getting wet within one to two minutes of a...

Firstly bear in mind that all stated waterproof adhesives and grouts are NOT waterproof!. They are water resistant i.e they do not deteriate when subject to showers etc. In short water will pass through them and your walls and will still get wet. On a good note though Topps sell ceramic bath...

Oh and i forgot to mention that a product called Magnum enerfoil is now available and is glued directly to the floor before tiling and is only 0.2mm thick. Saves all the mither of big bulky cables and silly floor heights and gives off ample heat for your floor.superb stuff.

What size tiles are you using and the thickness of them? Are you going onto plaster and is there a shower area to be tiled?

As long as the boards are screwed and not nailed to the joists you will be fine. I would recommend they are screwed every 200 mm along the joists through the boards as your joists are 400 mm wide. The recommendation is 300mm centres in a check board effect across the floor to give you suitable...

Well ive used the Unibond silicone remover several times and its superb.Especially for old cured mastic. ALWAYS resilicone with BAL microseal silicone because you wont get black mould. Q. Do you know what the black mould is ? A. E-coli / listeria / salmonela. A lovely combination from our...

Aquamix products !! there are stockists in the uk. Ring PITT or trades direct in stoke on trent to restore it no problem.

Brick cleaner from B & Q !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For gods sake! they are acid based! A customer of mine paid a fortune for a large format indian emerald green stone floor in the summer. A novice tiler cleaned his floor with brick acid and now he has luminous snot green streaks all over it...

Tom I think you will need to use a specialist sealer and coating remover. Alas alot of tilers think that certain tiles such as yours are sealed due to them being polished on production. Aquamix products from the usa are superb and can remove stains, clean, and seal any tile on the...

Plumbers do plumbing.Tilers do tiling. You see my point ?. A plumber has used a plasticiser to avoid grout cracking?.Would a tiler use super glue to connect two copper pipes?. If you have a stable and level floor to begin with i.e tongue and groove floorboarding (or chipboard as is the norm with...

Plumbers do plumbing.Tilers do tiling. You see my point ?. A plumber has used a plasticiser to avoid grout cracking?.Would a tiler use super glue to connect two copper pipes?. If you have a stable and level floor to begin with i.e tongue and groove floorboarding (or chipboard as is the norm with...

You most certainly need to install a waterproof tanking system. This is a latex based membrane which is either trowelled or painted on to the substrate material (i.e plaster) and sealed with the addition of a polyester type matting on the movement joints.These are the points such as where two...