tiling

I know this gets asked a lot but I couldn't find a thread discussing the exact points I'm confused about. I'm refurbing a small (1.4 x 2.4m) shower room. The fitter has proposed the following for the subfloor: - 18mm moisture resistant chipboard screwed to the joists at 250mm centres, with...

Hi, We are looking to tart up our dated swimming pool but not sure what to do. Grateful of any help. We have a pool which is semi submerged and patio slabs surround it. We've pressure washed the slaps this weekend and it's blown away all the old cement/grout. It's left about an inch gap...

I have a wall which I want to put mirror tiles on – the only problem is there’s an alcove with a curved top at one end. Once fitted I’d like to put some kind of channel or beading around the alcove to hide the edges of the tiles but whatever I use will have to be bendable. Suggestions ?

I've just started gutting a very dated en-suite which is going to have all new tiling, flooring, sanitary ware etc.. In the shower I've removed the tiles, taken off the frame/door and removed the tray (which was slightly recessed into the wall, I assume to minimise water leaking around the...

hi, I heard the "old way" of tiling floors was to use dry sand and cement binding, and then a slurry of water and cement would be used to fix floor tiles into place? I was a little taken aback by this suggestion, but would it be possible to use mortar as tiling adhesive on a floor? I intend to...

That got you all going..... Not nearly as interesting as it sounds. Tiling 3 sides for a shower & in one corner of the back wall I've left a gap a bit wide between tile and wall (8mm ish). When the tiles from the perpendicular wall meet this one, the faces will only overlap by about a...

Hi, I'm hoping to get some advice on this, basically my dad had his bathroom done 5 years ago and it now needs work. It's a "wet room" where there's no shower curtain and the tiles angle down to the center of the room where there's a plug hole. However the grout started cracking up in places...

I recently got Aqua panels fitted in a shower, the panels are starting to bubble at the bottom, laminate separating from the back board, is this a fault with the panel or the way they have been installed?

Hi everyone, I've recently been tiling my kitchen and bathroom but have come across a problem...plywood! I made a great plywood box to cover my gas pipes in the kitchen and when I tiled it (you guessed it), they all fell off! I didn't realise that you couldn't tile directly onto plywood...

What do I need to do to this bathroom wall before I can start tiling? Thanks.

Problem: Tiling a kitchen floor. Half is covered in bitumen (from parquet floor). Half is a new concrete slab. There is a 35mm level difference across the floor and is fairly lumpy. Possible solution No.1?: Use latex self-levelling compound such as arditex na. BUT: I am slightly worried...

Hi I'm doing the prep work for a shower room at the moment. The room was fully tiled before and on removal of the tiles I found they had all pulled away from the wall and hardly attached at all. The wall behind is block work with plaster skim on top. So I'm left with a patchy and dusty skim...

Am about to start painting our new bathroom, which has been freshly plastered all over (now dry). I'm starting with a mist coat, and am just wondering whether I should put the mist coat all over, even in a corner where we will be installing a shower, with tiles in that area. I've been trying...

Hello, I'm in the process of decorating my kitchen and I've been removing the old (fairly uneven) tiles and also chasing out some bit of plaster to add new sockets and wiring. Removing the old tiles from the splash backs so far has left the old plaster in quite a bad state. Moving forward I...