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.

Phil Hobson is one of less than 30 wall and floor tilers in the UK that is registered as a ‘Trusted Advisor’ on the UK’s largest wall and floor tiling website, TilersForums.co.uk, that currently has more than 19,000 members.

If you would like a free no obligation estimation from Phil Hobson Tiler in Manchester, then please do feel free to email or call.

Email: info@philhobsontiler.co.uk
Tel: 07711 310 960

The PORSADRILL J-Hook (tile core ejector tool) is fully manufactured in the UK and compliments the range of core-drilling solutions offered by 365Drills in the PORSADRILL range. Sold separately to the main range of core drill bits which range from 6mm to 125mm and are available in 35 different sizes (fitting all of those round holes you might expect to see in walls in all bathrooms, kitchens and the likes) due to the fact that you only need to ever buy one for your tool kit, the PORSADRILL J-Hook is sure to be the bathroom fitters dream when it comes to protecting those screwdriver tips you tend to damage by prying out the tough porcelain and ceramic tile cores that often get stuck in the drill bit.

LET YOUR SCREWDRIVERS THANK YOU – USE A J-HOOK INSTEAD!

For more information on the Tile Core Ejector Tool by 365Drills visit www.365drills.com.

Expect to see the ‘J-Hook’ in stores priced at around £7.99. But as noted HERE you can expect to see the online price around the £4.99 mark.

Want to See More?

Then watch the video. The bloke in it is the inventor of the product.

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/

If you read the guides you will see that a lot of thought has gone into putting them together. Topics include:-

• A quick guide to regular grouting using a washboy and a float
• A guide to diagnosing grout failure
• A guide to using silicone sealant
• A guide to using self-levelling compounds
• A guide to help professional wall and floor tilers with their pricing
• A guide to using epoxy and waterproofing
• Choosing adhesives and grout with standards as a general guide
• Cement, Gypsum, Anhydrite, Ettringite Crystals, and PVA; A Discourse - which had further important information from another trusted forum member.

Click here to get to the download page where you can download the PDF version of this tiling guide. You will need to register for your free forum account in order to download the free PDF.

Disclaimer: TilersForums.co.uk and / or UKTilingNews.co.uk (along with sWe, the originator of the content) do NOT take any responsibility for loss or damaged caused by using information found on any of the websites mentioned. Professional tilers’ advice should always be followed on a per-job basis. It is recommended that customers get specifications from at least three fully qualified wall and floor tilers (and not general builders, or plumbers, etc) before commencing work.

NP Tiling can cater for all types of Wall and Floor tiling including Natural Stone work, Ceramics and Mosaics, Wetrooms (including tanking shower areas for protection from water damage) and Bathrooms, Geometric Tiling and other forms of advanced tiling work.

Electric Underfloor Heating Installations

Electric Underfloor Heating can be installed in any room of your home and NP Tiling can supply and install your electric UHF at competitive rates. Underfloor Heating is the best source of heat for most types of rooms including small or large, conservatories, bathrooms, shower rooms, kitchens, living spaces and so on.

Tanking and Wetrooms

Tanking systems for wet area’s such as bathrooms, shower rooms and wetrooms are a must to prevent water damage to the substrate at a later date, which is a common cause for reinstalling a bathroom much earlier than its lifespan could last if installed and protected well the first time. The tanking and waterproofing systems vary depending on the size of the area required to be tanked but in most cases it is as simple as using a waterpoof coating which is applied using a roller, trowel, or paint brush. This then ensures that even if water does get behind the tiles, the background which can often be water sensitive plaster, render, or even worse plasterboard (which is commonly seen mouldy and badly damaged when ripping out old bathrooms and tiles).

Commercial and Domestic Work Undertaken

NP Tiling take on both domestic work and commercial contracts for large jobs including site work. With more than 34 years experience in the wall and floor tiling industry NP Tiling has carried out many large contracts using teams of tilers to get the work completed quickly and to a high standard whilst sticking within budget. All employees carry valid CSCS cards and are qualified to the highest of grades.

Supplying Tiles, Adhesives and Other Materials

NP Tiling have been in the tile industry for more than 34 years and over the time have built up good relationships with many suppliers all over the Midlands. Customers are advised to contact NP Tiling as soon as possible as advice can be provided with regards to the best ranges, prices and availability for all types of tile and materials required for the job. If customers have already purchased tiles and adhesives then an installation price will be provided only.

Free No Obligation Estimation

NP Tiling of Stourbridge can provide you with a free no obligation estimation which will include a specification of all materials required to carry out the job to a professional standard in the shortest timeframe. Quotations last 60 days and can be renewed and extended at no cost at all. All clients are advised to book an estimation visit as no prices can be provided over the telephone or via email without a representative from NP Tiling physically seeing the job in hand.

Customer Testimonials and Feedback

Customer testimonials and references can be provided on request for both domestic and commercial work.

Contact NP Tiling

NP Tiling
Stourbridge
West Midlands

Emails us: info@nptiling.co.uk
Website: www.nptiling.co.uk
Call us: 07970378507 or 01384 571996

Neale Pitts of NP Tiling is part of the team behind www.TilersForums.co.uk, the Europe’s Largest Tile Discussion Website with over 19,000 members. Neale’s experience in the tile industry is an important part of keeping the advice on the forum accurate and trustworthy. Only 5 professional wall and floor tilers are part of the team that run the whole website for the rest of the members, and Neale is one of them.

An Amey Tiling Project

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 in the area by customers and builders as a whole.

2012 is coming and soon into the new year Amey Tiling will have a second larger van on the road and will even be taking on an apprentice under the Princes Trust scheme.

50% of work comes from regular domestic homeowners, and 50% from small builders. Amey Tiling are fussy about which builders to carry out work for as substandard is not accepted in any shape or form. Through sticking to this very good principle not only does Amey Tiling have no failures, even years later, but builders (and their customers) in the area of Lymington are even starting to accept the fact that only a high standard of work using the correct materials and practises is acceptable. And doing the job correctly the first time means it works out cheaper long-term as it only needs to be done the once.

More wall and floor tilers need to take on this fact, if all tilers ‘stuck to their guns’ on this matter, no work would be done but good quality tiling, and everybody would enjoy going to work, and reap the rewards from having near zero failures.

The First Amey Tiling Van

Amey Tiling does not need to advertise anywhere to gain business, word of mouth and a single (for now) sign-written van that is noticeable (blue van, white signage). The current van is a Vauxhall Combo which has been reliable enough to say the least, but the next van needs to be bigger. Vans being considered include Vauxhall Vivaro and the Nissan Vannette. Though please feel free to suggest similar vans in the comments box below.

Richard Amey is a ‘Trusted Advisor‘ on TilersForums.co.uk. Less than 30 people out of 19,000 have this member status on the forum. His forum profile can be found here: Rich

Feel free to contact Richard directly for any Ceramic, Porcelain, Mosaic, Natural Stone Wall and Floor Tiling that you require

Amey Tiling
Tiler in Lymington
Tel: 07817 904 897
Website: http://www.ameytiling.co.uk/
Email: ameytiling@hotmail.co.uk 

Richard and Stephen Amey of Amey Tiling

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.

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.

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.

• Tilers Forums – Tilers Forums UK website. With more than 19,000 tilers registered you’ll find nothing but tile chat.
• Tile Talk Australia – Australia’s number one tile chat websites. Professional and DIY wall and floor tilers are welcome.
• Tiling Courses – a directory of UK tiling training centres.
• Tiling Tools – Professional Tiling Tools advice website and supplier directory.

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For more information visit www.ContractorForum.co.uk

So that is why i ( david howe tiling) only use the best supplier i can.

That supplier is perfect home and garden in shildon county durham.

The owner is David sowerby, and David only sells the best quality stone, be it tiles or paving and David has a good selection of stone onsale to the public and trade.

Established to bring you the best stone products from around the world at the best possible prices.

Perfect home and garden do not claim to be the cheapest stone supplier around because they do not deal in the cheapest low quality stone. What they do supply is top quality stone and accessory products at very competitive prices.

The cost or time involved in installing your new tiles or paving does not reduce if you buy cheap low quality stone, in fact it may even increase due to higher scrap rates or poor sizing, so why compromise and then regret it every time you look at it.

At Perfect Home and Garden they have spent the time sourcing top quality stone directly from some of the best suppliers around the world so that you can have a wall or floor that you can be proud of for many years to come.

Create that spectacular garden area from a beautiful selection of stone for external use. From patio paving to cobbles and setts, to circle, octagon and star features, they can supply everything you need to create your perfect garden.

Whether it’s for floor or wall they have a wide range of stunning natural stones in a variety of colours, finishes and sizes to suit every taste and setting. Give your home that added elegance and character of natural stone at prices that won’t break the bank.

In addition to the stone they also supply everything you need to fit, maintain and even heat your new stone floor. We stock a range of quality Mapei adhesives, sealants and grouts specifically suited to natural stone.

Underfloor heating is a fantastic addition to stone flooring and we can supply the complete Uheat package including insulation sheets, heatmats or cables, thermostats and levelling compounds.

So if you require top quality any where in the uk  at very competitive prices then please do contact perfect home and garden and ask for David sowerby and mention David howe tiling recommended them.

Perfect Home and Garden
Unit 5, George Reynolds Industrial Estate
Shildon
County Durham
DL4 2RB

Tel: +44 (0) 1388 776211
Fax: +44 (0) 1388 778772

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.

This shows that those searching for such terms are searching much much less. In fact the February searches are more than 40% down compared to the initial month in February when our website www.uktilersworld.co.uk first went live.

On the first page of Google 50% of the 10 links are websites of ours and collating all stats on all the websites gives an even worse outcome for the term ‘TilerWorld’ and all terms similar.

If this continues it would suggest that people are searching a lot less for the website than they used to be when it was first launched. And we’re hearing all the time about tilers not getting work through such websites which can only be a result of the current climate and leading websites in the advice field increasing in traffic suggests that more and more people are looking for information regarding DIY tiling, and less are looking for professional wall and floor 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