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 website, arguably the most important pages for members throughout the website.

TilersForums.co.uk has been running now since April 2006, and currently serves more than 19,000 members, more than 16,000 of those being DIY or professional wall and floor tilers, the rest being homeowners looking for a professional to carry out their work.

Many ’tile forums’ have been setup since TilersForums.co.uk took the lead, one forum even got purchased from a company that went into administration. Another was setup by an adhesive manufacturer. Non of them have managed to obtain any great numbers of regular members and regular traffic. TilersForums.co.uk still to this day holds the number one spot and its members keep on returning.

TilersForums.co.uk is free to use, and comes with a range of benefits for the professional tiler. For more information checkout www.TilersForums.co.uk.

Penman and Sommerlad of The Mirror Investigations show an Electrician that WeDoTrades let down badly. The member of ElectriciansForums.co.uk, Malcolm Bramhall stated that he had paid £1,200+VAT and he was promised to get that amount back on profit out of work given by WeDoTrades who claimed they had a tie-in with Countrywide Estate Agents, a large concern in the property industry, although Countrywide were reported to have told the Mirror Investigations that they had a “very small” trial with WeDoTrades and “a decision was taken in September not to pursue a working relationship with this company”.

WeDoTrades is now a trading name of Silvercom Limited which use the same virtual office address to trade from as the previous EBH Web Limited. So watch out.

In a time when the economy is unstable a website that acts as a middleman charging to connect customers with tradesmen are less and less required. There are more tradesmen out of work, and less customers having work done. So any money the customer has spare should not be given to a middleman but either saved, or put towards the job and paid directly to the tradesmen for their labour and / or materials required.

We recommend customers to search the internet and avoid directories but try to find tradesmen’s own websites where you can see feedback from customers, pictures of their work, information about what work they cover, and the area’s they work in. We recommend getting three quotes, and references from them all, and check their references out before booking any one of them. Customers would then save a little money, and perhaps in cases like these, the tradesmen would too.

Please feel free to reply to this blog post with details of the training centre you have attended that you would recommend yourself to others, and if you’re lucky enough, it might just get added to the main list.

The main list: www.uktilingnews.co.uk/tiling-courses/

David Howe Tiling is a professional floor and wall tiling specialist based in the Darlington area.

David Howe Tiling is your one stop tiling company when it comes to tiling onto any suitable surface  in any situation that you require in the Darlington area.

If you are considering getting tiling work carried out in a domestic or commercial situation then please consider getting a FREE No Obligation Estimate at a time that suits you!

David Howe tiling also works close with other Darlington tilers and can always get that tiling project completed for you when times are busy.

David Howe Tiling can tile your bathroom,kitchen,hallway,living area,wet room, in fact any tiling that you wish to have completed ,be it walls or floor tiling.

David  Howe Tiling works with all  types of tile including .. :-Ceramic : Marble : Slate : Stone : Mosaic : Glass : Specialist Borders etc etc.

David Howe Tiling also installs electric under-floor heating systems in conservatories, kitchens, bathrooms etc. All fully tested by a qualified electrician.

Not every area has such an experienced tiler, if you’re still unsure – a portfolio of work can be seen here…  Picture gallery.

So if you need a Tiler in Darlington then do contact David for a no obligation quote.

Tiler in Darlington

This week we’ve been luck and had two video’s, and here they are.

Let down by Contractor on a Mosaic job:-

And Adam’s first help video:-

A big thankyou to Adam for doing this, we all hope more tilers join in soon.

You can follow Adam on Twitter, Tumblr and Youtube. And he’s recently signed up to our Tile Forum and his account can be found under Onlinetiler. We’ve also created a thread that you can follow on the forum, Onlinetiler.

It isn’t very often that a position for professional tiling training centre’s becomes available on TilersForums.co.uk though for 2010 one has become available and Alpine Tiling have been waiting a long time for the spot.

Gary from Alpine is pleased about the position and assure us that their training centre is second to non and will delivery the very best to all that wish to learn tiling training.

Alpine Tiling has had a feedback section on TilersForums.co.uk for some time now and I’m sure the recent outcome will attract many more happy contributors to the feedback topic. To view the feedback click here: Alpine Training Group – Tiling Courses.

If you would like to contact Alpine Training then please do so using the following details:-

Alpine Tiling Group – Training
Unit G10,
Atlas Industrial Park,
Harbour Road,
Rye
TN31 7TE

Tel: 01797 22 99 00
Email: gary@alpinetiling.co.uk

Please mention UK Tiling News or TilersForums when calling.

If you’re looking for professional Tilers in Nottingham then we can highly recommend Tiling Solutions Nottingham.

These Nottinghamshire Tilers take on both domestic and commercial work and are known in and around Nottingham for tiling swimming pools, schools, shopping centre’s and more.

To find a few other tilers based in nottingham try the Trusted Tradesmen website where all tradesmen are reviews and rated by their customers. Tilers in Nottingham where you will find many Nottingham based tilers.

Please feel free to pop over to the forum and contribute to the Poll as it’ll help give us a bit of an understanding as to what sort of percentages now have a Tiling NVQ.

Thanks

Tile Shop in Derby
The Alternative Tile Co
95 Nottingham Old Road
Derby DE1 3QR
Tel: 01332 207447

Tile Shops in Derby
Tile Choice
Unit 2-3
Ascot Drive
Osmaston Park Ind. Estate
Derby
DE24 8ST
Tel: 01332 784556

Tile Shop in Derby, Derbyshire
Stonell
23 Royal Scot Road
Pride Park
Derby
DE24 8AJ
Tel: 01332 412450

If you’re looking for training adhesives for your training centre then please checkout a couple of the options you have including:-

– 0870 333 0070 – Weber http://www.netweber.co.uk/
– PCI http://www.pci.uk.com/en/Pages/Contact.aspx

The three winners have been announced on the forum today in the following thread: Win a Two Week Tiling Course – Competition Winners Announced Here!

TilersForums.co.uk would like to thank Diamond Training Centre for making this opportunity possible.

Tile Giant which has recently become a brand under the Travis Perkins group has given the go-ahead for sponsorship and is in talks regarding superior sponsorship even.

Tile Giant currently only stock Mapei adhesives and Mapei UK already sponsor TilersForums.co.uk so the move was an obvious one.

More to follow pretty soon.

Electric Underfloor Heating at the Tilers Forum
Underfloor Heating Directory

It doesn’t matter what adhesive the tiler uses, or which shop they get it from. You can still leave a review for the tilers work no matter what.

The construction industry was hit by 31 000 redundancies in the three months leading to October, the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics has revealed.

Data from the latest Labour Market Statistics showed redundancies across the industry had more than doubled since the period between April and June, which saw 13 000 redundancies.

In the same three-month period up to October last year, the figure was less than 10 000.

Construction has been one of the sectors hardest hit by the economic downturn, second only to finance and business, which saw 34 000 employees lose their jobs in this period.

The impact has yet to be felt widely in the m&e contracting sector.

Unite Amicus national officer Tom Hardacre said: “With regards to the capital development, we haven’t seen a major difference yet, but the repair and maintenance side of things has taken a hit, and there have been considerable redundancies within that sector.

“When companies cut back, these people are seen as less important and are the first to go. I think that’s crazy, and I would say they shouldn’t be cutting back.”

Hardacre added: “We’re all concerned that the overall m&e situation could get worse. There are projects in the pipeline that could be shelved. For example, there’s lots of environmental work on power stations that could be vulnerable.”

The latest construction industry redundancy figures come with the news that unemployment has risen to 1.86 million, an increase of 137 000 in the three months to October. The unemployment rate is now at 6%.

Product Description
Some tiling books adopt a hypothetical stance to the subject. This book rejects this approach and demonstrates how a do-it-yourself enthusiast can carry out a tiling job to a high standard in situations that exist in the real world. Covers all the basic processes from designing the job through to the final grouting and cleaning down. Procedures, that are of vital importance, such as setting-out, are covered in considerable detail. The reader is told what can go wrong and given advice. Attention is also paid to tiling with terracotta, marble, slate and granite, that involve slightly different techniques compared to ceramic tiling. Presents highlighted, useful ‘tips’ throughout the text Well-illustrated with detailed, step-by-step colour photographs and diagrams.

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Product Details
Published on: 2005-10-28
Original language: English
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
144 pages

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Editorial Reviews
About the Author
John Ripley has been involved in the tiling business for his entire working life and over a period of fifty years gained experience in almost every aspect of the trade. He has represented the trade on the tiling committee of the British Standards Institute for many years and is the Chief Inspector for the National Federation of Terrazzo Marble and Mosaic specialists and a technical inspector for the Tile Assocation.

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Customer Reviews
Clear and helpful advise
John is very clear about how to tile, instructions are straight forward with handy pointers on potential problems so you can avoid them. It really does make all the difference to have this kind of advise and plan before you start. An invaluable guide if you want to get it right.

Ceramic and Stone Tiling: A Complete Guide