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CornerTape are proud sponsors of TilersForums.co.uk. Previously, masking and jointing tiled corners has been a time-consuming job, with varying results. Now, with CornerTape, you can mask both edges of a tiled corner at once. The accompanying joint former fits the joint spacing for the three widths that CornerTape comes in – 6 mm (Standard), 4 [...]
Written by Tiling News on February 27th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Reliable estimates suggest that there are about 180,000 UK tradesmen who are actively involved in tiling– but probably 90% of them have no formal qualifications in this skill. Many are builders and plasterers who also fix tiles – three wet trades in one – and few will have had any proper training in tiling.
This has [...]
Written by Tiling News on February 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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Checkout the new topics providing information on BAL, Granfix and Mapei adhesives and grouts:-
BAL Forum
Granfix Forum
Mapei Forum
Written by Tiling News on February 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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You need to be looking for this logo, not The Tile Association logo.
Written by Tiling News on January 31st, 2008 with 1 comment.
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TO FIND A CONSTRUCTION SKILLS / CITY AND GUILDS ACCREDITED TILING TRAINING CENTRE ANYWHERE IN THE UK, CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK:
Construction Awards Alliance - Home Page
Here you will find centres across the UK that offer NVQ assessments & ICA training in Wall & Floor Tiling. All accredited by the City & Guilds and Construction [...]
Written by Tiling News on January 31st, 2008 with 2 comments.
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Follow this link to the B-Constructive website.
www.bconstructive.co.uk
It is a website that is run in association with the Construction Awards Alliance (CITB and City & Guilds).
It is kept regularly updated with careers and apprenticeships available in Construction - this includes tiling!!
Unfortunately, careers are only available to those with an NVQ in their trade, or at least [...]
Written by Tiling News on January 31st, 2008 with no comments.
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Tub adhesive - small porcelain?
Hi, I have a small kitchen to do, they are small porc’ tiles. Is there a tub adhesive I can safely use for this, seems like a pain to be …
Polished Porcelain Staining!
I have a newly laid 25sqm 60×60 polished porcelain tile kitchen/hall floor. Tiles were [...]
Written by Tiling News on January 28th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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What make of tile trim do you use…?
What make of trims do you use…. If you use a make i havn’t put up ..say so and i’ll add it to the poll…..
wet rooms info…
basic explanation of a wet room …..dave.. Wet Rooms Wet rooms are becoming an increasingly popular way to fit a bathroom into [...]
Written by Tiling News on January 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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After the great success of the ‘which tile adhesive do you use (Which Tile Adhesive do you use?)?’ thread I thought I’d start one off for grout too. BAL put our adhesive poll in a press release as they had such good results. We’ll see how they stand on the grout front too though as [...]
Written by Tiling News on January 27th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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The Tiling Forum by TilersForums.co.uk has quickly become the UK’s first choice when it comes to tile and tiling advice.
A few popular topics:-
Decent topics a new tiler should read
Where’s the Door to the Tilers Forums Arms?
FREE Worktrousers
Decent Topics in The Tiling Forum
Decent DIY Tiling Topics
Tile trim on external corners
Looking for a Wall or Floor [...]
Written by Tiling News on January 22nd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Quality safety boots & safety shoes from Capps & Redwood. The Capps range includes non metallic safety footwear (composite safety boots). Redwood boots & Capps boots are manufactured to the highest standards and comply with the EN345 protective standard.
Written by Tiling News on January 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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PPE stands for Personal Protective Equipment. It covers anything than can be worn to protect you from hazards in the workplace. Some PPE such as fall arrest equipment and respirators are unlikely to be of interest to your average tiler, but there are plenty of other items that are, here are some examples…
Written by Tiling News on January 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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Tilers vote BAL ‘Most trusted adhesive’
BAL is the first choice of professional tilers, according to the latest online poll conducted by TilersForums.co.uk
When asked ‘What brand of adhesives do you trust the most?’ BAL was named by 77 of the 153 respondents - 50.3 per cent of tilers surveyed.
Written by Tiling News on December 31st, 2007 with no comments.
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Armadillo Workwear sells hard wearing functional workwear imported from Sweden, Italy and Germany. The Workwear is manufactured to meet the most demaning work environments and is delivered anywhere in the world, to your home or on-site!
Written by Tiling News on December 21st, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Welcome to the 365Drills Forum.
Do you need to cut holes into very hard materials? We produce quality diamond drill kits for professional and DIY installers.
Written by Tiling News on December 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Wright Tiler - Tiler In Fife
For professional wall and floor tiling services in Fife,
please visit: http://www.thewrighttiler.co.uk/
Written by Tiling News on November 26th, 2007 with no comments.
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Washboy? What do I need one of those for?
These are the sentiments being echoed by tilers across the nation. For many years the standard grout cleaning tools have comprised of the basic bucket and sponge combination.
However with the size of jobs ever increasing the modern day professional tiler should not be without the tiler’s best [...]
Written by Tiling News on November 18th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Discounted Liability Insurance for Tradesmen and Tradeswomen is available from TilersForums.co.uk ho have teamed up with TradeInsureDirect. Get a FREE no obligation quote from here: http://www.tilersforums.co.uk/view_insurance.htm
From £50 for £1,000,000 cover for 12 months!
Written by Tiling News on November 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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The Property Makeover Price Guide - Organising and budgeting for home improvers and developers
So you’ve watched the TV programmes about improving and developing your home and want to do it yourself; or your home has faults which need fixing before they lead to serious problems. But how do you really organise and budget for [...]
Written by Tiling News on November 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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TTA appear to be listing courses and training centre’s that are not recommending tilers do a recognised qualification. Surely it’s their responsibility to ensure that all the tilers that are getting put in the tiling world have the ability and skills to do the trade properly?
Just wondering what your views are.
Written by Tiling News on November 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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The Ceramic Tile Forum has improved the homepage design a little. Checkout the tile forum and you’ll notice the changes.
Written by Tiling News on October 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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When you write a new post on the tiling forum you’ll notice an extra box to fill in, if you want to. The words then get collected and a ‘cloud’ of words are made like on THIS PAGE which when clicked give you all the topics with that matching tag.
Tags so far:-
adhesive - advice - [...]
Written by Tiling News on October 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Just a quick one to link to the Female Tilers topic on tilersforums.co.uk.
Written by Tiling News on October 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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We never knew that if we made a tiling courses website it would get used. Well we made one and guess what? It’s probably one of the most visited website’s related to tiling courses on the net! So it had to be cleaned up a little.
Now we’re in the process of tidying the pages up but [...]
Written by Tiling News on October 15th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Polls have been running on tilersforums.co.uk since it began last year. One of the most popular polls so far has to be the ‘Which Adhesive brand do you trust the most? poll’ with options including BAL, Mapei, Dunlop, Granfix, Palace and many more.
Have your say on the many Polls running on the forum, click here [...]
Written by Tiling News on October 13th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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