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by Skunkfu
Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:57 pm
Forum: Tiles and Tiling Forum
Topic: porcelain floor tiles plywood ?
Replies: 5
Views: 6554

Ajax, Cement board is grey in colour on both sides, its comes in 12mm x 1200mm x 1600mm or something like that and it stinks :lol: It wont stink up all of your bathroom, but if you smell it close you will see it has this specific smell, because of cement? not sure. You should find it in Wickes where...
by Skunkfu
Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:05 pm
Forum: Tiles and Tiling Forum
Topic: Tiling gaps for Travertine tiles
Replies: 1
Views: 3576

You can do anything you want, its your tiles, its your house [i gues], but remember this: Travertine is a stone and any tiler will tell you that stone tiles will never be prefectly cut. If you go ahead and tile with no gaps, i can promise you will have some gaps anyways, cos stone tiles are not 100%...
by Skunkfu
Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:44 pm
Forum: Tiles and Tiling Forum
Topic: porcelain floor tiles plywood ?
Replies: 5
Views: 6554

As far as i understand, your bathroom has 18mm chipboard laid already? Why would you want to lay ply on top? To water proof it and to reinforce the floor i think there is nothing better than "cementboard" from Wickes [its very cheap], just screw sheets directly onto chipboard and tile away!
by Skunkfu
Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:30 pm
Forum: Glazing and Double Glazing Forum
Topic: Double Glazing Prices
Replies: 3
Views: 5888

Wanted to get double glazing for my house too. Factory direct supply only £1109 for 7 windows. So ok i get Anglian to come in and see what they can quote with installation......£4000 :shock: Now i see why agent was driving nice sports car.
by Skunkfu
Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:33 pm
Forum: Carpentry and Joinery Forum
Topic: Wat kind of boards are likely to be used in the bathroom pls
Replies: 4
Views: 4916

If its for the floor i would recommend "Cementboard", you can get it from Wickes. B&Q dont even know what it is, they asked me to spell it when i asked if they had it in stock :D
by Skunkfu
Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:17 pm
Forum: Tiles and Tiling Forum
Topic: Stone Tiles on Wooden Floor.
Replies: 2
Views: 3834

Like gam said you need separate tile adhesive and grout.
Your tile adhesive [b]must[/b] be flexible too, not just grout if you dont want to redo everything in couple months.
by Skunkfu
Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:28 am
Forum: Tiles and Tiling Forum
Topic: Tiling on a chipboard floor.
Replies: 2
Views: 9496

No, dont tile directly over chipboard, if you ever had even small leak you will have trouble. Get some sort of floor water proofing stuff, just ask in your local DIY store its quite a choice these days. I used "cementboard" from Wickes. "Cementboard" reinforced my floor, stoped m...
by Skunkfu
Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:39 pm
Forum: Tiles and Tiling Forum
Topic: shaping floor tiles????
Replies: 2
Views: 5388

My advise would be not to tile around skirting boards, it just looks cheap & awefull to be honest. If i was you i would remove all skirting boards, and when you reach door frame just cut the mouldings at the bottom of the door to allow tile to slide under and it will be much easier to cut tile a...
by Skunkfu
Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:28 pm
Forum: Tiles and Tiling Forum
Topic: Best surface to install large travertine wall tiles
Replies: 2
Views: 8992

Re: Best surface to install large travertine wall tiles

[quote="Amac"]I'm foolishly planning to self install 60 by 40 mm travertine tiles on wall as a bath surround. The existing tiles are sound but not too flat. I think my two options are hacking off the tiles and replastering or dryline with backerboard/aquapanel or ply. Any advice would be a...
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