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You can ask any question about tiles no matter where you are in the world, or what type of tiles or tile fixing you’re about to embark on. Whether DIY or trying to find a local tiler, or perhaps you are the tiler! Welcome Tiler! Check out some of the common UK tiling forum categories we have with lots of tiles discussions, tiles industry news, polls about tile adhesives and tile suppliers, and images of tiles.
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DIY Tiling Forum for Weekend Warriors and Do it Yourselfers
Tiling Standards (BS 5385) Forum and Discussion
Tanking and Wetrooms (inc showers) Forum
Tiling on and Installing Electric Underfloor Heating
Tiling Tools | Tools for Tiles – Pro Tiling Tools
Tile Cutters (Manual and Wet Cutters)
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Specialist Tiles – Stone, Porcelain, Glass
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Common Tiling Advice Questions and Answers
Here are just some of the thousands of advice topics found on our forums. Check them out below, and feel free to register to the forum for free and ask your own tiling questions and we will help answer them.
Which is the best floor tile adhesive?
There are many floor tile adhesive makes in the UK. Including (but not limited to); Mapei, BAL Tiling, Weber Saint-Gobain, UltraTILE, Tilemaster and more. For concrete floors you can use a rapid setting tile adhesive that you can walk on within 3 hours. And a slow setting one, which you can’t walk on for 24 hours at all. If you’re tiling to wood or tile backer boards, you may need a flexible tile adhesive.
As a tiler, where can I get tiling work from?
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Which is the best tiling course in the UK?
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How long does it take to become a good tiler, and earn money?
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How much will a good tiler cost me?
For wall tiling only in the kitchen, £250 per day. 2 days. For a bathroom floor and walls, if they can tile behind the loo and basin and tighten them back up without needing to cut around them perfectly, saving time. Perhaps £200 per day for prep. 2 days preparation. Then 2 or 3 days to tile it at £250-300 a day. That’s the skill you’re paying for. For them to tile. More prices can be found on Tilers Forums for free.
How can I find tilers in my area?
How can you find tilers in my area? – Firstly searching Google maps / local search. That’ll bring up some good tilers. If they rank high, they should be pretty good. They’re established if their website ranks well and is easy to find. Reviews can be found on lots of websites but not all can be trusted. Then enter your county in Google. So “Tilers in Staffordshire” or “Tilers in Derbyshire” or “Tilers in London N1
Where is the best place to get tiles from in the UK?
Go find your local independent tile shop, and then your local big tile chain, and maybe B&Q if you’re not getting trade prices through your tiler. The tiler will have the best prices at his usual tile shop. So always get some prices even if thinking to DIY the tiling job. Then of course online there are a whole range of tile shops such as Tile Mountain, Tile Giant, Topps Tiles as the national big chains who have brilliant easy to use web stores. Even if you’re a tiler and want trade prices.
Where can I get tiling advice for free?
There are a few places these days to get tiling advice from. One being Tilers Forum UK, which started out in 2006. The next being UK Tiling Forum, which is independent. For the more rapid fire news posts for facebook users, there is Tilers BB. The new facebook content extraction service that is indexing thousands of posts, and hundreds of hours of tile video content that would otherwise be forgotten about within a few days.
Which is the best UK tiling forum?
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