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TradeTiler.com is the oldest and most used dedicated Tiling Tool website primarily setup to supply to the Tile Trade in the UK. TradeTiler.com offers a great range of tiling tools that professional wall and floor tilers use on a daily basis, and then the big stuff.

He only stocks the best brand named tools such as Rubi, Fein, Karl Dahm, Stabila and the others, and all his gear is available for quick dispatch. We hear nothing but good things about TradeTiler on the forum.

Tile UK is the leading trade magazine for the UK tile and tiling accessories market, with a circulation of 6000 distributed to specifiers, buyers and designers in the retail and contract markets.

The magazine has been relaunched by the Gearing Media Group, a specialist interiors publisher that is committed to providing informed, high quality magazines.

As well as previews and reviews of the biggest events in the tile calendar, Tile UK brings news, product features, company profiles and advice columns to its influential readership.

Schluter Systems Ltd Company Time-line

Thanks to the spirit of research espoused by company founder Werner Schlüter we have become what we are now: Today, Schlüter-SCHIENE is a world-renowned and successful product. No wonder that we are still at the top of our game - always there to make your life easier. We are firmly committed to detail, which means our solutions are so subtle that, ideally, they are not even noticed.

Product tests at FLIESEN SCHLÜTER for first class system solutions.

As we were relating the story of the Schlüter-SCHIENE profile, we again realised the importance of keeping in touch with on-the-job practice. In our company, even during the test phase, each product has to stand up to everyday situations. We allow ourselves the luxury of a separate company for this purpose: Our tile installation operation, FLIESEN-SCHLÜTER operates on the regional market in Iserlohn. This is where we test all our new products for processing and market suitability.

Practical solutions for practical problems …

… is not just some motto of ours, it has been a successful Schlüter tradition - for more than thirty years. But it is not only because of good ideas that we are where we are today; it is also because of our qualified and motivated personnel. With this in mind, we invest just as much in continuous training and development for our employees as we do in developing our production facilities.
Because it is very important to us that our products are effective in everyday situations, each of our new products also undergoes both internal quality tess and testing carried out by reputable independent institutes.

In the seventies, along with Schlüter-SCHIENE, we developed the Schlüter-REMA magnet system for creating concealed tile panels, and the Schlüter-TREP stair nosing profile. Our Schlüter-JOLLY profile, made from stainless steel, colour coated aluminium or PVC, finally provided the market with a product to solve the problem of unglazed tile edges on wall coverings.

By the end of the seventies we were forming the basis for functional and safe balcony and terrace coverings with the development of Schlüter-TROBA as a sub-surface drainage system.

In 1985, the first Schlüter-DILEX profile appeared on the market, making it possible to construct long-lasting, maintenance-free movement joints with no time delays.

After coming onto the market in 1987, Schlüter-DITRA became the universally used substrate matting, combining the product properties uncoupling, waterproofing, and vapour pressure equalisation in one layer.

At the end of the nineties, Schlüter-BEKOTEC was brought onto the market - a flooring assembly for coverings over insulation layers and radiant floor heating systems.

We have also begun the new millennium in an innovative manner: By converting the profile geometry to the patented joint spacer - for a uniform joint and simpler grouting.

We have developed Schlüter-BEKOTEC-THERM, the ceramic thermal comfort floor, on the basis of Schlüter-BEKOTEC. In addition to the products required to assemble floors, we have been offering a complete range of heating technology components from a single source under this brand name since 2003.

TradeTiler.com is the oldest dedicated tiling tool supplier to the UK on the net. David Neave who owns the company said “We’re proud knowing the TradeTiler brand which is known for being dedicated to the tile industry for so many years is now part of the UK’s biggest tile website. We’ll be offering some unique members and are happy that we’ve just struck the deal just before we upgrade our website”.

For more information vist www.tilersforums.co.uk and www.tradetiler.com.

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DIY Tiling School - Stockport

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Tiling Courses Reviews is an independent tiling training review website that allows YOU to vote on the various courses run by various training centre’s around the UK. Tiling Courses Reviews isn’t funded by sponsorship, and isn’t connected to any training centre in any way at all. It’s content is published by YOU! So if you’ve been on a training course then please feel free to submit a review. Thanks in advance.

First impressions was that it was very light in weight compared to similar machines of its size…..

Also the build quality is very good….apart from maybe they could have used a better slide mechanism for the breaker handle but it still performs well……

It is completely aluminium apart from the steel guide rail….

It has a sprung loaded bed and swing out support arms for larger tiles.I found that an excellent feature.

The guide rail is very easy to set up and just clicks into place with a single lock down clasp.
And the measuring guide is very easy to read..

The handle/cutting wheel is a push system on this model and they also do a pull system as well ..

The cutting wheel has a simple quick release button unlike other models that you have to knock a pin out to release the cutting wheel…..

here’s a couple pics of the cutter….

<view the review for the pictures>

First a tried it on porcelain floor tiles and it cut them no probs even right down to about a 15mm slither….

I tried it on hard porcelanato grade 5 tiles…no problem

i tried it on glass mosaics again the movable breaker and small foot did a great job of breaking the mosaics individually……

So out come a 600 x 300 highly polished porcelain tile and it cut a 20mm slither first go….

The only problem i have with the cutter is that it can break ceramic tiles if you are to heavy on the handle when breaking the tiles….but all in all it is a good cutter from Rubi……and i would recommend it……

So thanks to all at Rubi for letting me try it out…….

A couple from the forum: Tiling Tools Starter Kit, Which Tile Cutter to Use (poll), Best Tile Cutters, Manual Tile Cutter.

Though it seems the fitters are currently not required to be of any standard, it feels more like a setup to get more tilers’s into the topps stores. Whilst making sure the recommendations coming from the stores are all using tilers that use topps. As we all know in the trade, they’re not cheap suppliers by any means.

There’s discussion on Topps Approved Fitters on the UK’s busiest Tile Website, tilersforums.co.uk.

Germans Boada, s.a., RUBI®, has its origins in 1951 with the invention of a manual cutter for hydraulic mosaic work, created by the Boada brothers.

This new tool had an excellent reception, receiving a diploma of honour and the gold medal at the first national exhibition
of inventions, held in Barcelona in 1953.

The new tool, christened with the name of RUBI®, served as a foundation pillar for this company which now designs, manufactures and distributes machinery and tools for construction and especially all the equipment required for the correct laying of tiles and other building materials.

When the young master tile installer Werner Schlüter was laying tiles in a bathroom with 5 doors, he hit on the idea of using Schlüter-SCHIENE: this was the beginning of a successful career as an entrepreneur.
Inventions don’t drop out of the sky; they emerge out of practical experiences. The really successful ideas are often the result of years of experience, combined with a good deal of creativity. And they are always a reflection of the time in which they are created.
Today, that young master tile installer’s name stands for an internationally renowned brand and company.

Schlüter-Systems Ltd is the wholly owned UK subsidiary of Schlüter-Systems KG. Our base in the UK is situated at Coalville, Leicestershire, where we provide full sales and technical support for customers in the UK and Ireland. There are six other subsidiaries around the world, in France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, The United States, and Canada, plus agencies and distribution partners in many other countries.

Here in the UK, Schlüter was founded in 1993, and is now headed up by Managing Director Elaine Stokes, with the help of a dedicated senior management team.

The Schlüter team works closely with distributors, stockists and tiling contractors — providing the best customer service available — actively helping to ensure a long lasting, attractive installation. Schlüter’s renowned technical expertise includes advising architects, specifiers and contractors, before they carry out the installation, preventing tomorrow’s problems.

We are an approved licensed training centre by Aset and the CCA (CITB, City and Guilds).

The shortfall in skilled labour means there has never been a better time than the present to train on wall and floor tiling courses.

Good quality tilers are rarely out of work due to a market place which is constantly changing, think of all the new bathrooms, kitchens, conservatories, shops, restaurants that are getting renewed. Tiling plays a big part. A good tiler can earn up to £40K a year.

We run various Intensive Tiling Courses at NORTH EAST TILING TRAINING, We offer one of the most comprehensive 4 and 8 day tiling courses there is and we are well known around the UK for the intense courses we deliver. We train people from all over England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. You will gain a very good understanding of the tiling industry along with advanced techniques in a relaxed environment and give yourself the confidence to make a start towards a career in this well paid profession, become your own boss or tackle some of your own projects.

Tilers Forums is the UK’s Biggest Tile Forums. First online in April 2006 Tilers Forums tile and tiling frorum (tile forums for US/CA) now hosts many websites (all free for personal use) including but not limited to the Tiling Courses directory of ALL GOOD UK and Irish Tiling Training Centre’s, the Tiling Tools info-site listing all the professional and DIY tiling tool suppliers, and the Find a Tiler directory for customer to use and GOOD professional tiler’s to register on… for free. Please also checkout our new Tile Network website, Tilers, Tiling and Tiles. Copyright 2008 Tilers Forums Tiling and Tile Forums. ]]> http://www.uktilingnews.co.uk/tilers-forums-updates-the-tile-forums/feed/ http://www.uktilingnews.co.uk/tiler-training/ http://www.uktilingnews.co.uk/tiler-training/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 17:26:09 +0000 Tiling News Dan http://www.uktilingnews.co.uk/tiler-training/ Tilers Forums .co.uk has provided a new recommended tiling courses page.

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