tiling

Hi, We have an awkward window/bathroom/budget situation. The window has strange angles to it due to the "ashlar" walls and nothing being straight. We have a corner bath with overhead shower going in (to appease all the varying requests) under the window and we will be tiling the window wall...

Hi all, Looking for some help! We have recently bought a circa 1930s ex council house. Minimal DIY experience between us. We want to tile hallway and kitchen and have wood flooring. We ripped up the carpet and found this horrible brown floor. Tested for asbestos - it’s not. Builders think...

Hi all Our bathroom has the PVC wall panelling around 3 walls ( the other wall is a "feature wall) due to the incredibly hard water the panels by the (over bath) shower suffer from heavy limescale. After trying to clean it I succeeded in marking the panels ( I suspect I took off the printed...

Hi, looking for some advice. I have a “fake” stove chamber/fireplace that will house an electric stove that will just be used for the flame effect only. The walls of the chamber are 12mm ply that is well secured. Realistically, is there any way brick slips can be fixed to this with the help of...

Building a new house and next is insulation & wet UFH, followed by liquid screed (then wait 28 days before tiling) We'll be tiling all of the ground floor with the above set-up (wood effect porcelain tiles 120cm x 20cm) across 101m2 of floor area downstairs, however I'm not sure if it's...

Hi, I want to fit a shower tray with upstands into a corner against 2 walls, which are going to be tiled, with a glass enclosure on the other 2 open sides. All the trays seem to have 4 upstands, but I only need upstands for the two edges against the walls. With an upstand on all 4 sides, when...

Hi all, I’ve had two en-suites formed and tiled as part of a full house renovation / extension. Could anyone please advise whether this current set up is suitable for a shower door installation. My main concern in both rooms is that on one side, the tile only overhangs the tray by the...

How do you properly tile around a door frame when the backer board and tiles are positioned above the door frame? Should the tiles extend beneath the architrave so that it can be placed on top of the tiles, or should the tiling stop where it meets the architrave?

Are large format tiles too heavy for plastered plasterboard? I’m planning to install 600 x 1200 x 8 mm tiles in my bathroom. They weigh approx. 15kg per tile. I’ve already used tile backer board on one half of the bathroom after removing some existing tiles, which also removed the underlying...

Hi, the previous owners of our house converted the old garage into an annexe. Under what is now the bathroom door there is a Clark-drain manhole cover, which one is pretty ugly and two scrapes on the bottom of the door when you open it. I would like to replace it with a recessed cover which I...

I’m planning on laying tile backer board on chipboard flooring prior to tiling. Which adhesive is required to lay the backer on to? Would something like this work...

What is the best method for tiling a bathroom chipboard floor using tile backer board? I’m considering using 6mm backer board, but I’m unsure whether screws alone are sufficient for securing it, or if adhesive is also necessary. Any advice?

Hi, Someone posted something similar a few years ago with no response. I bought some ceramic house number tiles (very similar to image attached). I need to attach the tiles to the wall of my house. The wall has roughcasting (aka harling or pebbledash). Should I cut a rectangle out of the...

Hi all, I am doing up small front garden which currently has concrete everywhere - aiming to dig out a bunch of the concrete (as it currently goes right up to airbricks) and replace mostly with gravel. Trying to keep costs low where I can within reason and doing it myself. I had thought I...

Hello all, I’ve been tiling the new bathroom, and I’ve made a silly mistake. I’m fitting a bath with an over head shower, and I’ve tiled the area. I stupidly tiled all the way down to the height of the bath, rather than leaving a row off, and fitting the bath, then tiling down to it. Is it a...

Hi all I'm currently doing my bathroom and have taken all the tiles off (It was completely tiled). Some came off a lot easier than others and many have taken chunks of bonding plaster as well as skim (see photos). The main bath wall had what looked like two layers of bonding coat and a square...

I had a wetroom fitted three years ago as part of a full refurb that has leaked on and off ever since. It was professionally installed and tanked. The contractor has come back and siliconed the interface between the tiles and the shower tray waste multiple times but this doesn't fix the problem...

Hi all, I'm after some advice. We're having our kitchen redone at the moment and we think the tilers have done a bad job. Firstly, the tiles aren't at right angles to any of the walls in the room. The tiler said they did it via one wall, but I've shown that the entire grid is slightly off axis...

Hello all, getting round to renovating the bathroom in our 1909 solid wall red brick house (on first floor) - any advice on what should go behind tiles on an internal brick wall in a shower area (and external brick wall not in shower area)? One tradesperson has said sand and cement render and...

I had my bathroom tiled over the summer. A week before Christmas I noticed that one of the tiles by the bath is loose, and a couple of tiles have hairline cracks. Of course the tiler did not respond to my attempts to contact him so I need to fix it myself. The tiler grouted between the bath...