8 Important Steps To Help You Retile A Bathroom Well
Hoping to retile your bathroom yourself? These 8 steps are essential to get you the very best results. Retiling a bathroom is a great idea to help it look cleaner, more modern, and more...
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What is upcycling furniture and how can I do it?
Upcycling is a new take on recycling where instead of just giving an old object a new life, you use your crafting skills to make it more interesting and valuable than before. Upcycling in...
Room Above Garages – Add More Living Space To Your Home
Using the room above garages to make additional living space is a brilliant and inspired way expand your home. Garage With Room Above Guest Accommodation If you are looking to expand your home space, instead...
How to design your bedroom to be less cluttered
The average person spends around a third of their life in bed, so it is important that we make sure the bedroom is a calm, relaxing and clutter-free space to stay in. Clearing out...
How to Repair Bathroom Floor Tiles
I am going to give a basic introduction to how to fix broken bathroom floor tiles. Replacing floor tile’s is a simple but delicate job. If you are not careful you might do more damage than good.
Step 1 First you should have the replacement tiles in hand. If you have a common tile style you should be able to find replacement tiles at any home improvement store. Also you need to have the replacement grout before you get the job started. If you are going to replace tiles that have to be cut at any particular angle you might need a wet saw which you can rent at any tool rental place. […]
Should You Lease Commercial Property? Here are the Pros and Cons
There are a lot of things to consider when leasing commercial or private property for your business. Whether you need more space for your business or you’re downsizing to a more manageable living space,...
Discover The Best Way to Layout Bathroom Wall Tiles
Sticking tile adhesive on the back of a tile and fixing it to the wall is a relatively easy task if you have prepared the surface properly and chosen the right adhesive but there’s...
6 Tips to Use when Laying Bathroom Tiles
A tile floor can make any room look great. Now a person can tile their own bathroom floor with these easy to follow tips. Use Spacers When laying the tiles, it is important to...
5 Indispensable Floor Installation Tips
Maybe you are unhappy with the way your floor looks, or you just want to try out something different for a change. Also, you may be fed up with floor cleaning and require a...
Preparation is the Secret to a Great Tiled Finish
If you are reasonably competent at DIY then tiling your own walls or floor should be fairly straightforward; of course, some aspects of tiling are harder than others – if you choose large porcelain tiles for an awkward space you may find cutting them to shape a nuisance but, providing you have made a sensible choice for your room and your own capabilities then there is no reason why an amateur cannot achieve a professional-looking finish.
Getting ready for a tiling project
Getting a tiling project underway can be an exciting time for any DIY enthusiast. But before you start getting ready to work, check out our list of essential items for your project so you don’t have to suddenly rush out to the hardware shop for something you’ve forgotten. The exact shopping list will depend on the project you are doing, but you should definitely have the basic essentials listed here…
Do I Need A Flexible Tile Adhesive?
There are a number of standard classifications of tile adhesive that determine how flexible the adhesive is and this should concern you if you are installing tiles in a position where there is likely to be movement after the tiles have been fixed in place. This could be ongoing movement due to temperature and moisture changes such as floor tiles laid over a timber floor, which is liable to expand and shrink as the climate changes. It could also be tiling installed in a new building where a concrete or brick structure may initially be subject to some settling. But movement of a tiled surface can also happen to a lesser extent in other situations such as a tiled bath panel which may suffer some minor movement every time the bath is filled.
How to cut a hole in ceramic or porcelain tiles
Ceramic and porcelain tiles are widely used in our homes in kitchens, bathrooms, conservatories and other rooms, and the laying of these tiles on either floors or walls can often be tackled as a DIY job. Laying straight lines of tiles is a relatively easy job as is making straight cuts in the tiles, but rooms are rarely perfectly square around the edges and it is the finish around the edges that is the most difficult to get right.
Professional vs DIY Bathroom Tiling
Whether you’re moving into a new home, renovating your current one, or you just think your bathroom tiling job needs a facelift, there is always the dilemma of whether you should knowledge-up and do it yourself, or hire a professional to complete the job for you. But unless you’re a qualified tiler or you’ve had some experience with tiling, you’re probably going to be out of your element. Choosing what tiles you want is the easy part; the hard part is installing those tiles if you want a finish like professionals can deliver. […]
Stress Free Bathroom Tiling
One of the most important factors in any tiling project is thorough planning. It is not usually a good idea to just start in the corner with a full tile and work up or across from that. This might leave you with a small and unsightly row at the top or side of the wall or floor. To avoid this problem, make yourself a gauge stick before you start. Take a length of 50mm x 12mm soft wood and lay a row of tiles along one edge of it. Use spacers as you would normally so that the tiles are spaced properly, then mark the position of each tile on the gauge stick. Before you begin tiling, you must ensure that the walls are clean, unbroken and dry. The surface should be as flat as possible so you’ll need to take off any wallpaper and paint over any flaking paint. Make sure you have your gauge stick ready. […]
Laying Swimming Pool Tiles
If you have a swimming pool on your property you’ll find that laying tiles is a great improvement over a more standard pool lining material as well as improving its appearance. You can make a lovely swimming environment by installing colourful tiles or using mosaic tiles to create creative patterns. It doesn’t matter if you’re tiling just the walls or the entire pool though, make sure you use specialised swimming pool tiles and waterproof grout to ensure you get proper, long term coverage. […]
Top Tip – Different Thickness Tiles
As a professional tiler (or even a keen DIYer) you may in the past have come across the problem of trying to install border tiles that were thinner than the surrounding, large tiles. This can be a particular problem with mosaic borders or feature areas because due to the small size of mosaic tiles they are often thinner than standard tiles. But this problem needn’t be a problem anymore with the tile backerboard system from Dukkaboard […]
The Right Tools for Installing Porcelain Tiles
Cutting porcelain tiles is not as straightforward a job as cutting ceramic tiles and an electric tile cutter with a diamond blade will almost certainly be required. But these tools do not have to...
Measuring up for Bathroom Tiles
So you are planning some DIY home improvements in your new house and the first task is re-tiling the bathroom. But if you are tiling your bathroom yourself then you will need to accurately...
Getting Ready To Tile Your Bathroom
Tiling a bathroom yourself is relatively easy for a competent DIY’er but if you find putting up shelves is just too difficult a task for you then you would probably be better off getting...
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