Tiling News – Tilers News

TilersForums.co.uk members benefitted from a minimum of 12,264,475 hits per month, and a maximum of 19,915,080 hits per month during 2011. The busiest year for the UK’s biggest tile advice website. This news comes as The Tile Association announce that their website peaked at an impressive 831,905 per month during 2011, with 304,374 hits going to member pages within the [...]

Phil Hobson, Tiler in Manchester, now has his website online and nearly complete. Phil is a member of The Tile Association, and is also on the Training Committee and has been for some years. Phil Hobson has more than 44 years in the wall and floor tiling industry, and was the first person in the [...]

In November 2011 the trading name of WeDoTrades, EBH Web Limited, went into Liquidation. Many members of many forums including TilersForums.co.uk, UKPlumbersForums.co.uk and ElectriciansForums.co.uk claim that although they paid expensive costs to WeDoTrades, they never sore work come in from the website. Penman and Sommerlad of The Mirror Investigations show an Electrician that WeDoTrades let down badly. [...]

The inventors of the anti-slip gel plate 365Drills have done it again. Yet again the simple solution (it is always the simple ideas that work!) to core drilling tough porcelain tile has improved once more. First it was the anti-slip gel plate, then it was the drill-cooling sponge that was packaged using no extra plastic [...]

The short but sweet Tiling Courses list has been updated. It hadn’t been touched since late in 2010 and was quite out of date. The few training centre’s listed should cater for pretty much any area of the country. Note that it is always recommended to go and physically visit at least 3 training centre’s [...]

TilersForums has a member from Sweden who spent a long time putting together some basic guides with regards to many aspects of wall and floor tiling. The tiling guides started in May 2008 and added to in 2009. The forum ‘thread’ (topic) is still open although hasn’t been replied to for some time. The guides [...]

NP Tiling is a Wall and Floor Tiler based in Stourbridge, West Midlands. Tiling undertaken throughout the UK but mostly in the Midlands including (but not limited to); Dudley, Stourbridge, Halesowen, Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Worcester and Cannock in the Staffordshire area. NP Tiling can cater for all types of Wall and Floor tiling including Natural [...]

Amey Tiling, professional wall and floor tilers in Lymington, are continuing to expand their business in the area. 9 years ago Richard Amey started out wall and floor tiling, and for the past 3 years has been running his own business, Amey Tiling, along with his brother, due to the poor quality of workmanship being accepted [...]

Specialist Training Courses (STC) of Harlow, formerly PTS, has officially gone into receivership. No more news as of yet, but we’ll keep you posted.

Another brilliant video from Onlinetiler. This one’s quite lengthy, it’s a day late! (Come on lad, we’ve been waiting for this!). A big thanks to Onlinetiler for the videos! You can see a range of videos on the tile forum, on his blog, and you can follow him on twitter.

Today, Adam’s posted another video blog. This time, a little chirpier, I must say. This week, Adam’s knocked off early, well early! He’s been paid for the full day (stupid tax kicked in!) and he’s considering a round of Golf. Please follow Onlinetiler on both Tumblr and Twitter.

We’ve found a professional wall and floor tiler who has started a video blogging page with Tublr.com. Blogging about the daily stresses and strains of a tiler, and generally throwing in some tips and tricks to help others with their tiling, Adam Philips (AKA Onlinetiler) gives us a video or so per week to watch. [...]