Shower had little 2" square tiles and many were missing so we took 'em all off and plan to retile it.
Bunnings people talk about some film they've got there to put down first, and/or some fluid stuff to put down first, then mix up some stuff and stick 'em down and then grout.
We bought the fluid and the 'stuff' and the grout.
So just checking: there's still patches of cement on it where it didn't come away cleanly from the slab when we were chipping the old tiles out.
Do we lay this 'stuff' thickly enough to cover that or is it vitally important that the whole area be down to the concrete slab, nice and smooth?
What's the liquid stuff we've been sold? It is supposed to stop damp I think. Must be stop it coming up I suppose because the damp isn't supposed to go down through your tiles is it? How real is that stuff? How important to do and do right?
We are going to put down the same kind of 2" square things. Got them off the sink surround, they were lifting off, too. So they are all single 2" squares now. Is that going to be an alright job or are we going to find problems like sharp corners sticking up and whatever?
Going to be very tedious putting them tiny spacers in there...that's the only way to go?
And the sink surround, well that's wood and I think it was chronically damp for years maybe. we've been drying it out the last month or more. It'll be alright to use the same 'stuff' on that? Straight on it? Or need this liquid stuff? Or even need a new surface, sheet of ply or something?
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p.s. We've got bigger tiles for that. different. About maybe 6" x 3". I suppose they're just as good as anything for that job? They're not going to fit the space exactly though. Going to need to do some tile cutting. Any caveats about that?