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    Video of tiling
  2. M

    What material to use for sink surround (to be tiled.

    I’ve been renovating our guest room and have built a vanity unit for a small sink in the corner of the room. there is a small work surface which fits around the sink (100mm at its widest) which I plan to tile with small mosaic tiles. The sink will only get occasional use but the surface will...
  3. S

    Kitchen Tiling onto Uneven Mixed Surface

    Hi lovely DIY helpers! I have done a lot of tiling in my time as a lover of DIY but never onto a surface like this of my sister’s kitchen. Removing the old tiles has left an uneven and very mixed surface. When I’ve finished removing all the old tiles, I just want to tile to where the old tiles...
  4. A

    Shower cubicle strip and rebuild

    I'm posting this in here, as it contains a variety of elements - building, plumbing, plastering, tiling, etc - so I'm not sure where to put it, but here goes! Our house dates all the way back to 1995. It's a pretty ordinary concrete block house with some studding and plasterboard internal...
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    Tile over old Marble Fire Surround

    I want to tile over an out dated marble surround (see picture). I was planning to scratch the old marble and then PVA. Then use a cement based flex adhesive to fix the new tiles (see picture) And advice greatly appreciated. It’s a small area but realise these small tasks can turn out a lot...
  6. laminateman1010

    300 Quid To Tile Small Bathroom?

    Hi Just had tiler out provide a quite to tile a small bathroom with a floor area of 5ft by 5ft6. He quoted £300 to tile this small area and said that that he would have to temporarily remove the toilet. I am in ‘the North’ where tradesman costs tend to be cheaper. Is this a realistic price...
  7. M

    Bathroom wall paint keeps cracking and peels off by shower

    I feel like I've written about this a million times, but here goes.... When I moved in my property 8 years ago, I had tha bathroom retiled and the bathroom wall replastered. It's an exterior brick wall in a victorian house. It then transpired the tiles were fixed directly to the plaster, with...
  8. M

    Tiling letting water through even with Membrane

    Bear with me, this is a long story: This the 5th time I've had this work done, and no body seems to know the cause. I have a bath mounted shower, which comes off a bath mixer tap which come from the floor. (THERES NO PIPES IN THE WALL). This was all originally fitted with new tiles after I...
  9. J

    How to prepare walls for tiling around shower over bath?

    So my new bath is in, and I've given myself the job of tiling the bathroom. It's an acrylic L-shaped shower bath, one wall is newly plastered and the other (where the shower will be mounted) is a stud wall with Hardiebacker board: New bath by jwilf posted 13 Jan 2019 at 6:14 PM I'm using flat...
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    Cement render vs plasterboard for tiling?

    Hi, I've removed old tiles from my bathroom walls and parts of the wall came off with it so I've ended up back to brick and concrete blocks. I'm about to get a couple bathroom fitters come to give quotations but I wanted to educate myself beforehand so I'm better prepared to instruct the fitter...
  11. StephenStephen

    How to fix into cob? - Prep this wall for tiling

    So I want to tile this wall which will be part of a wetroom. The sequence I've got here is, I think: -cob -lime render -cement render cement render with pebbles -external paint -cement render -plaster It's a little hollow, a couple of small cracks, but I think is stable enough not to justify...
  12. D

    Aquapanel in shower enclosures

    Im building a three sided timber stud wall to create a shower enclosure and using aquapanel cement board over the studs. Theres a lot of conflicting advice online re whether to install a vapour control barrier behind the aquapanel or tank the surface before tiling (or both!) to ensure its...
  13. U

    How to tile this fireplace....

    Hi all, The wife wants the bottom of the fireplace tiling up to the wooden beam (see pictures). I've got a couple of questions that I thought you might be able to help me with... Firstly... which way would you put the tiles on this... would you put them longways or up/down as per these photos...
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    It's not aqua board

    So I have a room that will be my bathroom. Half stud wall. Half external wall. I have plasterboarded my stud walls with normal 12.5mm plasterboard and then skimmed the lot with the intention of having shower and tiles on external section. Unfortunately we have to have the shower and tiles on...
  15. M

    How do I slope this tiled shower floor ?

    Hi guys, 8 years ago had an inexperienced friend of a friend who tiles my bathroom flooring in an attempt to fix the shower floor, the water sadly would slope outwards into the stair landing area, it is a wet room. Problem is I would like to remove these tiles, but re-concrete the floor with...
  16. S

    Laying porcelain tiles outdoors on a concrete subbase

    I have laid a concrete subbase 100mm deep and in one side there will be a shed the other part I am laying porcelain tiles using a tiles adeshive. My question is do I need to prime the the concrete slab ? Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated !
  17. J

    Tiling uneven wall

    Hi, looking for some advice for a bathroom wall that needs tiling. Top half of the wall is wallpaper on flat decent plaster, the bottom half was tiled. When I’ve taken the tile off there’s a lot of cement like material (possibly old adhesive). This is around 1/2” tick, more in places and...
  18. M

    Please help, need advise

    My Tiler has laid some newly chipped edge travertine tiling in my kitchen very beautiful with an ivory grout. before grout, we sealed the tile with a solvent impregnated sealer using "DRY TREAT " Stain-proof. Solvent-based sealer, before grout and again after the grout. This sealer works at...
  19. M

    Please Help, Need your guys expertise please.

    My Tiler has laid some newly chipped edge travertine tiling in my kitchen very beautiful with an ivory grout. before grout, we sealed the tile with a solvent impregnated sealer using "DRY TREAT " Stain-proof. Solvent-based sealer, before grout and again after the grout. This sealer works at...
  20. M

    Sealing on top of sealed tile ? Help.

    Hi guys, My Tiler has laid some newly chipped edge travertine tiling in my kitchen very beautiful with an ivory grout. before grout, we sealed the tile with a solvent impregnated sealer using "DRY TREAT " Stain-proof. Solvent-based sealer, before grout and again after the grout. This...
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