Tiling Advice

This is where you will find links to many useful PDF's made by Weber and Lithofin.  Just click on the pictures and text links below to view the reports; that cover all angles of tiling problems, during tiling and after the tiles are laid.  If you do not find the answer to your question here, we will do our utmost to help you.  Please do not hesitate to contact us on 01425 621173 or email us:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Cracked Tiles On A Wooden Substrate?

De-Bonding on Anhydrite Screeds?

Dot and Dab Application - The Pitfalls

No Movement Joints?  What can happen on a large area...

Patchy Floor Grout?

Yellowing Grout?

Weber "Problems and Solutions" - comprehensive guides to all aspects of tiling.

• Achieving a suitable adhesive bed

• Floor tiling with very large tiles

• Wall tiling in adverse drying conditions

• Tiling onto plaster

• Tiling showers, bathrooms and wetrooms (intermittently wet areas)

• Protecting a water sensitive substrate

• Tiling onto wood

• Tiling directly onto tongue and groove boards or sheets

• Tiling with underfloor heating/undertile warming products

• Tiling onto underfloor heating mats

• Impervious tiles or substrates

• Tiling with an uncoupling membrane

• External Tiling

• Tiling uneven surfaces

• Tiling onto anhydrite screeds

• Structural Waterproofing

• Tiling in swimming pools

• Acoustic insulation layers to reduce impact noise transmission

• Tiling onto green screeds or concrete

• Tiling onto balconies

• Specialist tiles: such as glass, metal or mosaic tiles

• Tiling onto floating floors

Lithofin Method Statements - cleaning, protecting and maintaining tiles of all kinds.

CERAMIC AND PORCELAIN TILES

• Cement-based and Silicon Joints
• Glazed Tiles
• Glass Tiles
• Quarry Tiles Unglazed
• Porcelain Tiles - Indoors/Outdoors

TERRACOTTA

• Terracotta - Modern
• Terracotta - Classic

NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL STONE

• Marble Polished, Finely Honed - Indoors
• Granite Placed In The Bathroom
• Limestone Honed - Indoors Light Limestone Tiles
• Granite Polished, Honed - Indoors
• Granite Honed, Sawn, Flamed - Outdoors
• Granite - Brushed
• Quarzite And Sandstone Rough, Sawn - Outdoor
• Mica Slate Rough - Indoors and Outdoors
• Indian Multicoloured And Clay Slate Rough - Indoors
• Multicoloured And Clay Slate Rough - Indoors
• Terazzo Honed, Polished - Indoors
• Concrete Stone Rough, Blasted, Washed - Outdoors
• Natural Stone - Kitchen Counters
  
• Composite Stone - Kitchen Counters
  
• Treating Anrochter Dolomite
• Treating Jura - Limestone 
• Solnhofener Natural Stone