tiling

Hi guys New to the site here so I'll get down to it, no trade background but I can fix aircraft, everything I am doing is from learning and just doing but also being safe. I am in the middle of doing the bathroom up, I had to knock back to brick as the plaster came of along with all the...

Hello We removed old vinyl tiles from our bathroom floor and scraped it as much as we could. It's still left the old adhesive in some patches. It's quite thin though. Is it ok to tile over using porcelain tiles or do we need to prep it further?

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...

Hi, I have a dividing metal stud wall along one side of my new bathroom. One small section of it will be in a walk in shower so I'm cement boarding and tiling that area, but the remainder of the wall (divided by the vertical line of the shower screen) will be moisture resistant plasterboard...

I am getting a multi fuel stove installed and will be retiling the hearth. I was wondering, are most standard tile adhesives heat resistent enough for the temperatures of a 5kw stove? Possibly non-cement based ones? Or should I get a specific heat resistent adhesive? I found this at a local...

Hi, We have a recessed window in the bathroom which has a trickle vent at the top of the recess ( please see attached photo). We will be fitting a tile backer board to the underside of the lintel ( top of recessed window). This then means that when the tiles are fixed they would cover the...

I'm tiling a bathroom and now got to make the bath panel to be tiled? I was thinking to to make a structure panel in stud work and plywood 12mm, then tiling on it straight away. Would this work? is the plywood good enough for wet area?

I am putting a very narrow border tile (40mm strips off a white tile) around patterned tiles in an understairs wc floor. The border tile (as was the only one we could get) is about 2-3mm taller than the primary tile. I want to reduce the difference to more or less seamless. I was thinking the...

I am putting down new floors in a downstairs WC (tile) and adjoining hallway (12mm laminate). I was looking at transitions between the two and was really hoping to achieve a really minimalist finish like the attached pic Is this possible with laminate flooring that is essentially 'floating'...

I’m about to tile a very small Wc flow (1.3x0.8m). Subfloor is solid concrete and is by and large quite level. In any case I plan to pour a dose of self levelling compound over the area Just to give a perfect base for tiling. I have two questions 1) what’s best way to repair deeper localised...

Hi i'm having an old bathroom ripped out and the room skimmed. Boiler is in the bathroom and the cupboard for the boiler is being built in after it's skimmed. and then the side of the boiler will be where the bath and shower go. so the shower will be attached to side of the cupboard. I've...

Hi All I need to remove the mosaic tiles (attached) and replace with a standard tile. If I remove the tiles, I am most likely going to have to break the plaster board behind, how do I refit the plaster board to the gap? Sadly there is no stud wall behind to support the new plasterboard Thanks

I was wondering if I could get some advice on what would be best for this particular wall. Ideally I would like to end at the worktop end, but if I do, then I will be tiling half a fused spur, which would probably look a bit crap. Other option is to tile behind the fridge, but I'm not too keen...

I am tiling my kitchen wall and window recess with a small 7.5x15cm white subway tile, in brick effect, with 1mm spacer with white grout, up to (at this point) the height of the extractor hood. So the tiles will be the same height all the way around the wall, (10 rows). I have just laid them...

Hi, I've layed No More Ply on my small bathroom floor ready for tiling. The sub floor was not perfect despite my best efforts, as it's old floor boards. I called No More Ply and they said just use more of the mega strength adhesive and it will expand to fill any small gaps. The NMP went down...

I have just installed a new kitchen and have a new extractor hood to put up. We are thinking of tiling either 3/4 of the wall, or right to the ceiling with a small white brick tile. What I was wondering was; do I fir the extractor to the wall first, and tile around it (it's a square hood so...

Hi, I've just removed the tiled floor in our utility room to find the tiles were laid directly onto Caberfloor which is sitting on 45mm thick polystyrene foam on a concrete base. The floor was laid about 25 years ago and was in okay condition other than were a large chest freezer had been. I've...

I've recently moved into a property with an old an unattractive fireplace that is badly in need of some tlc. Fireplace in it's most complete appearance. There's a lot of damaged tiles, the grout is loose or missing in some places, the base is loose from the surround and most of all I think...

Hi, I bought 6mm No More Ply for my bathroom floor before I tile. As you can see the floorboards are not perfect, and there is a piece of ply patching in one section. It all feels quite solid to me, but not perfectly flat everywhere as the boards are old. My worry is that when I put down the...

Morning, I'm building a hearth for a log burner. Plan is to use bricks to build it up from the concrete subfloor. I need to level before tiling. Can I shutter it and pour a thin (say 5mm) layer of self levelling screed to give me a flat surface to tile from? My concern is heating might cause...