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Got new tiles and was wondering for advice on the grout and adhesive to buy and where to buy it,

also could get the same advice for beads

how much grout and adhesive would I need also ruffly 11m2

What tiles, what size, where are they for, what is the substrate they are going on????

oscano stone cermanic tile

30x50cm for both wall and floor and will be going onto a gyproc wall

3 bags of rapid set adhesive. BAL, NC amd Mapei all good makes....The Mapei is probably the easiest to mix by hand. Tiles will need to be back buttered or DIY install. DIY install may put you into 4 bags of adhesive.

Grout I think would be 5kg. I just know which size to pick up lol. ( I haven't even got a clue how much a bag of adhesive weighs, just know how many).

Trims will be a couple of mm thicker than the tile.

Bear in mind suitable substrates and weight limits.

royaloakcarpentry wrote: I haven't even got a clue how much a bag of adhesive weighs.

20kgs :)

I'd go for standard set, rapid set goes off too quickly for DIY installs.

If the floor is chipboard you should really overboard with some tile backer board(6mm I think?) or plywood. The tilers on here will say minimum 15mm ply but we use 9mm on top off 22mm chipboard Screwed every 150mm and have never had an issue. You can tile on top of chipboard if it's prepped correctly and I've seen many many floors tiled directly onto chipboard with no issues that've been down 20+ years.
The problem is lifting tiles from chipboard in later years,it completely wrecks the floor in the same way tiling onto plasterboard does.

Am not sure what is underneath it as ave not lifted the old tiles yet still to get a suit for the bathroom too struggling to find on I really like