Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement 1 Feb 19, 2020 12:39 pm Never done any tiling before. 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? 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? Re: replacing tiles in a shower... how? 8Feb 19, 2020 7:14 pm abrogard 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. 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. It'll be alright to use the same 'stuff' on that? Straight on it? Or need this liquid stuff? It would help if you posted pictures of the packaging of everything you asked about, because "stuff" is not a particular descriptive term. Pictures of the job would be helpful too. Re: replacing tiles in a shower... how? 10Mar 07, 2020 9:02 pm sorry guys. didn't get round to posting pictures. And now I've done the job, mostly. Got new questions now: or a new question - what about grout sealer? Following instructions on the can of grout it says to use grout sealer after 7 days so I go shopping for some. fine it in the store and read the can. Every brand says the same thing: don't put on glossy tiles. Just put it on the grout. First I thought I couldn't do that because of the number of lines of grout I've got and then I realised that nearly every job - all those fair dink jobs you professionals do - have lots of thin lines of grout. So what's the story? How do we put grout sealer on the grout only and not the tile? One can even said if you've got a shower setup don't use this use our special shower stuff. then when I found the can of special shower stuff it said the same thing - don't use on shiny tiles. And second question: is it going to be alright the amount of grout I've got there everywhere? And if not what can I do about it? Here's pics now, of the whole thing: bodgie job 2 8358 Yes, get a builder, make sure he is experienced and a registered building practitioner 5 8963 Hi, we live in an area where the black soil is prone to a lot of movement. We have an old 50's house with masonite everywhere and nails popping out, warping, rusted etc.… 0 4510 |