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Food preparation – art form and applied science that includes but is not limited to cooking.

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    Advice/sensecheck on floor tile preparation - backerboard and ditra?

    Hi, Can't seem to find a solid answer as I realise so much depends on multiple factors. I'm planning to tile my kitchen floor with 8mm porcelain floor tiles (660x440mm). My kitchen floor is mostly wooden floorboards (house built in 1925), with a strip of concrete along the party wall from...
    • Scott9
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    • backerboard cement board ditra floor floor prep floor tile preparation tile
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    • Forum: America
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    Natural Stone Limestone Floor Tiling

    We're quoting to rip up and replace a tiled floor with Limestone tiles. I'm looking for advice to ensure I allow for proper preparation & any additional/specialist materials that we might need during installation. There will be a new UFH system, likely one that combines a decoupled like Warmup...
  3. A

    Bath Shower wall prep after tiles fell off

    My bathroom was tiled 5 years ago with 60x30 tiles which became loose and came clean off with a little wiggle. The installation was prior to when I moved in. The walls look sound and flat and seemed to have been newly plastered before the tiling was done. My question is what do I need to seal...
  4. N

    MR Plasterboard in shower

    I am in the process of building a couple of stud walls to create a shower cubicle. Built from 4"x2" studs they will be covered in backing board and tanked/waterproofed before tiling. The third wall in the cubicle already exists and is constructed of MR plasterboard on 6" studs and then...
  5. Aethelweard

    Please help. Bathroom wall tiling preparation advice. 30s house.

    Dear Tilers Hi all, I've just joined the forum. I am renovating my 30s semi. I am a diyer and I have just removed some original tiles from a 1932 bathroom in my house. They were in bad condition and cracked so had to go sadly. Thing is, I want to retile, probably porcelain. Underneath the tiles...
    • Aethelweard
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    • advice bathroom help house please preparation tiling wall wall tiling
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: America
  6. R

    Floor preparation too low

    Hi Everyone, My tiling job has come to a standstill, please help. The concrete floor was suppose to be raised to match the rest of the ground floor. We tried to raise it by mixing concrete. Sadly it's about 30-40mm too low: we are 50mm from the ffl and so we need to account for the tile and...
    • rmim786
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    • floor preparation
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    • Forum: America
  7. K

    Plywood subfloor preparation questions

    As an introduction, I'm a DIY home owner who has gutted the bathroom in a house built in 1980 due to a burst water pipe. I had a professional water mitigation company remove the damage so I'm sure all of the affected material is now gone. I have decided to put large format tile on the floor in...
    • KingSlurp
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    • plywood preparation questions subfloor
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: America
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    Preparation for luxury vinyl planks in bathroom. Should I tank?

    Hello, I’m a keen diy’er and looking to install my bathroom. I intend to tank the wall areas where my shower will go with q-boards from b&q before tiling. My floor however is luxury vinyl plank which is supposedly waterproof. Has anyone got experience using this in a bathroom? How do you...
  9. lukeoflondon

    Advice appreciated on first tiling attempt

    Hi everybody, I've taken on the task of tiling my own kitchen, and before I wreck everything and regret it I thought it would be sensible to ask the pros for their opinion. It's a small kitchen ~2.3m x 2m, on the top floor of old victorian building, currently with bare original floorboards...
  10. S

    Tiling over PVC wall panel

    Can we tile over a PVC wall panel?
    • SergeTiler
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    • over panel preparation tiling wall
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: America
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    Priming when using ready mix

    Hi all I've got a newbie question here! I've got a kitchen splashback coming up soon with 200x100 ceramic metro tiles, I'll be using mapei mapegrip D1 ready mixed adhesive and have mapei probond primer. My question is do I need to prime the walls first even though it is a ready mix? I have...
    • AinsleyD
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    • paint preparation priming
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    • Forum: America
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    Priming when using ready mix adhesive?

    Hi all I've got a newbie question here! I've got a kitchen splashback coming up soon with 200x100 ceramic metro tiles, I'll be using mapei mapegrip D1 ready mixed adhesive. My question is do I need to prime the walls first even though it is a ready mix? I have always primed before hand but...
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    Wall preparation for tiling

    So I've striped the paint of the wall ready for tiling, a thin layer of brown plasterboard has come of with the paint. House is 2006 looks like taped joints and painted. I still have a thin layer of brown paper on the plasterboard. Is this OK to tile straight on to? Thanks
    • Troystar1
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    • preparation tiling wall
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    • Forum: America
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    Floor Preparation - Dry Pack or SLC

    I’m planning on tiling a kitchen floor in an older property that has had previous modifications. After removing some stud partition walls to create a square space I have two separate sections of floor which will require preparation. One section (2m2) is a concrete slab about 40mm lower than the...
  15. J K Tiling Cornwall

    Poured concrete screed preparation

    Hi everyone. I have a floor tiling job coming up that is a poured concrete screed over piped underfloor heating. The screed has been down for many months (completely cured and underfloor heating has been ticking over on low). My issue is that the surface is quite smooth with a light sheen. Would...
  16. O

    New Bathroom preparation

    Hi all We finally got it together to do a renovation build and the bathrooms are boarded out with water-resistant boards - and the builder has skimmed them, which I was not expecting. But funds are running out and I intend to finish the bathrooms myself. How best to prepare the shower area for a...
  17. E

    Subfloor preparation old house

    Hi, first post here. I've been lurking this forum for advice for a while, thank you all who share your knowledge. I'm to tile a kitchen of an old (old old) house, farmers concrete with NO DPM, house has no dpc, stone walls. Area 17 sqm, waves up to 12 mm difference, to be finished with...
    • Edwin Tintoe
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    • concrete house old old house preparation subfloor
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: America
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    Electric UFH Layer/prep for tiling with UFH on wooden floorboards

    Hi, So I can’t find any solid information on this topic. For context, I am wanting tiles floor with underfloor heating from the kitchen into the living/dining room (joining rooms via a door) so basically the whole downstairs. While having a new kitchen installed prior to tiling I was advised to...
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    How to fix this disaster

    Hello, I was looking for help on getting my floor ready for porcelain tiles and was directed here. Old tiles were taken out of an old floor leaving dry dirt patches where the concrete was removed with tile, lots of broken concrete bits and, in the kitchen, exposed pipe (which seems to be...
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    Preparation for uneven walls and ply floor.

    Hello. I have a couple of questions, recently I went back to tiling x has been a lot of years, trying to do the right thing with the new ways . I have to tile a wall, tiles 600 by 300 rectified porcelain brick patern , 10mm , the walls are not flat neither plumb , and on the window they want...
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