tiles

hello folks, im trying to decide what the best way is to tile over hard wood floor, one option i have got is to lay a layer of bitumen over the hard wood as a water proofing membrane (to vaoid the tiles from cracking over time due to flexibility and humidity of the wood) and then adding adhesive...

Hey all, I'm in the middle of tiling my kitchen, simple splashback around the counters. I'm not overly happy with the colours now I see it up and I'm wondering if I should stop and paint the tiles with Ronseal before grouting? Do you think this would work well? I'm thinking it would look better...

I left HG Scale Away on ceramic tiles slightly too long - about 15 minutes. I was scrubbing away at hard to clean areas, that took ages to get off. It has left a white residue that doesn't come off if I scrub with water. I'm really hoping this is residue left on the tile (it looks this way) that...

Are ridge tiles supposed to be bedded on mortar along the sides or is just the vertical bit at the ends supposed to be grouted? I do have some on mortar along the long sides, at one end of the house but I suspect that was to bring them up level with the rest. Also, should so much mortar be used...

Wife wants kit-kat wall tiles in the bathroom. Ok. When I search for kitkat tiles / finger tiles, or variations of that and mosaic tiles, I get lot of hits for Australian suppliers but not UK. I did find some on the Topps website, in the mosaic section for an eye watering £175 / m. At that...

I just had a guy lay LVT tiles in my 3sqm bathroom. I prepped the floor a bit, and he said it would be fine. He laid 6mm ply and then the LVT tiles, and you could see all kinds of lumps and bumps. I complained that it was his job to deal with the sub floor or at least not tell me its fine when...

Hi folks, Am planning to tile my cloak room floor, so ripped out my old capret (yes, it had carpet there!) and the underlay. There's a subfloor made of wood, which seems to be glued to the concrete floor underneath. I don't want to pry it out, very messy. So, how to I even the floor - can't lay...

Hi all. Im planning on building a summer house at the bottom of the garden but it’s going to be quite large approx 7m wide x 5m deep. An the wife has now decided that she wants a apex tiled roof on top. I was just wondering would this be possible on a timber frame an if so what timber would be...

Hi, I had my bathroom refurb done including new tiles. Once the bathroom was complete we did not clean the tiles as there was other work happening in the house. We have just got around to cleaning the white tiles, but there are so many marks still visible on the tiles and it looks like trovel...

I'm putting a horned threshold(cill) in the bottom of a new door frame, because there's a step down from the hallway. And I'd like tiles in the hall, to back of cill. Do 330x300 floor tile thicknesses vary much? What is standard grout thickness? I need to set the cill top at the right...

Hi everyone. I recently posted about the flooring in my bathroom. Previous owner states there was some water damage leading to swelling of the floor. I have noticed over the past few months that the swelling is extending, particularly along the seams. I am not very good with DIY, so I am...

I have installed heat spreaderplates between floor joists and installed wet UFH. I took care to stabilise the floor as much as possible with noggins and aluminium roof plate straps adapted to size to hold the joists as an additional measure. I have placed 18mm t&g chipboard P5 flooring on top...

Hi, (Sorry if answered elsewhere - couldn't find it) Short version: Is there some kind of thick underlay which can be used under click vinyl to raise its height to match adjoining tiles? Needs to allow heat transfer from under floor heating and not be too squishy for the vinyl planks. Long...

Hello all, we are re-doing the kitchen, it is in an extension off a terraced Victorian house. The kitchen size will be roughly 2.38m x 6m. I have a couple of challenges coming up, questions underlined. A. the floors of the main building are higher by 18cm than the current kitchen floor (which...

hi, Bought a house with an extension, there is s strong musky smell from one of the rooms I can’t access this from the loft so have had a look at the roof from the outside. Where the extension meets the house there is a large gap in the tiles. The wood board under neath is rotted. Is this an...

Hi. I am nearly ready to start the roof on my extension and just wanted to get the installation clear in my head. I'm fairly confident about installing the wall plate, trusses, strapping and even things like membrane, battens etc. The part i'm trying to get my head around is the detail where...

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...

Help or recommendations desperately needed!! I have tiles on my kitchen floor of which some have broken-long story. I decided I wanted to place lino on top of the tiles so I removed the loose broken tiles and cemented the hole left behind. I have since had lino fitted and today I have had to...

Hi I have some tiles missing from my roof, and also some that are de-laminating. The tiles are rosemary clay. I've had a roofer round to quote for the work and he's said that it isn't worth replacing the broken/missing tiles, because in doing the work someone is likely to break or dislodge more...

So we are washing up in the bath because there is no kitchen yet... Was grouting the bathroom wall last night and knocked a mug off the edge of the bath onto the new ungrouted floor tiles! Didn't notice at the time, just thought it was good that the mug didn't break o_O Lovely chip out of one...