tiling

Hi guys, I really like working with Ball grout but as it is cement based absorbs the water. I do use grout sealer but as most clients use hars chemicals to clean limescale for obvious resons it disolves quite quickly. So my idea would be to mix Sica Waterproofer into the grout to make it...

Hi, I am currently renovating my bathroom and will be having tiles on two of the walls, where a shower will sit in the corner and a bath along the same wall. The shower is going where the door currently is. We are planning on using 30x60x10mm porcelain tiles. Currently one of the walls is...

So i've been a bit of an idiot. I have had a room tiled, with electric underfloor heating underneath. I totally forgot to account for the fact that a stud wall was going to be built on top of these tiles. The stud has to be screwed into the tiles and I have no idea where the cables are! Saying...

Hi all, New to the forum but just about to commence a full refurb on a house. Need a bit of advice on whether it is possible to lay slate tiles in our soon to be created, knocked through, kitchen diner. The sub floors differ so I wonder if anyone has encountered a similar issue. The kitchen...

Hi, Looking for next best steps. I had a pre-existing issue with a mixer shower that's valve had gone. When I have gone to replace a leak in the kitchen that I assumed was due to this and bad sealing has become more evident. The hose that connected the water supply from under the tub to the...

As you can see, my kitchen tiles run beneath the cabinets and also between them, by the oven area. Plus they run along the sink area.. I have cleaned and prepped the cabinets ready for priming with Zinsser BIN In a couple of weeks, I have a guy coming to take out the old tiles, put new subway...

Resin shower tray has started to delaminate, wanted to rip it out and replace with pebble mosaics but the stud wall has been built on top of the edges so can't remove it without a lot of damage to the existing wall tiles (which are fine). Plan A Cut around the edge to remove the white plastic...

I have a crumby situation - my flat has a kitchenette - ie the kitchen and lounge are one room. The lounge area is carpeted and that meets a strip of vinyl tiled floor which is the length of the kitchen area (which is essentially one side of the rectangle that includes the lounge area). Here's a...

Hi. Going to be tiling the downstairs of the house. Have a screeded concrete floor that looks pretty level (haven't checked it yet, but no majour bumps or dips). I was going to put down some self levelling before tiling, only because I thought it might make for an easier job and a better finish...

Switched out pedestal basins for vanity units earlier this week, but the pedestal has left a huge hole in the pipe boxing underneath. What do you think is the best way of patching up these holes? They're hidden away so I'm not worried about retiling, but I feel like there has to be a better...

I am about to tile the downstairs floor. It is 60m2 over 2 rooms either side of a hallway. I have tiled walls and smaller floors before, but nothing on this scale. I am confident that I can do it, however I have a question regarding how to self level the area. The floor is concrete and is in...

I am currently re-tiling our bathroom and will be fitting a new bath in the next few days. What is the current 'best practice' for installing a reliable seal around the bath? The old tiles had quadrant sections where they met the bath, which had worked remarkably well for around thirty years...

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?