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TilersForums.co.uk Members Get The Most Coverage

Tiling News Dan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:49:00 +0000

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 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.

Tilers Forums

Tiling News Dan — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:29:13 +0000

Checkout the following Tilers Forums websites.

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.

RotoZip to Sponsor TilersForums

Tiling News Dan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:21:29 +0000

RotoZip are soon to be Sponsoring TilersForums.co.uk, the UK’s biggest tile forum.

The powerful and most versatile high speed cutting system for the professional user
The RotoZip Spiral Saw system offers maximum cutting efficiency to save time, effort and money on the job. RotoZip allows fast, easy and effective cutting in various materials. Whether cutting straight lines, perfect circles or free-hand – the RotoZip Spiral Saw can handle any possible direction or shape.

TilersForums is in talks with Tile Giant

Tiling News Dan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:14:12 +0000

TilersForums.co.uk which started out in April 2006 now has more than 7,800 active members with not a single one being pre-registered to the system. With more than 22 sponsorship deals providing support to the forum and community in one way or another, TilersForums.co.uk is just about to make the most important deal of them all.

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.

Find a Tile Fixer

Tiling News Dan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:08:42 +0000

Find a Tile Fixer by checking a few of our websites out, www.FindTrustedTradesmen.co.uk, www.TilersForums.co.uk, www.TilersTilingTiles.co.uk

TilersForums.net – Supporting The Tile Industry The Modern Way

TTA – Tile Talk Australia

Tiling News Dan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:53:16 +0000

Checkout the new Tile Forums for Autralia Tilers.

TradeTiler now sponsors the UK BIGGEST Tile Website!

Tiling News Dan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:07:01 +0000

TradeTiler.com has setup a deal with TilersForums.co.uk and its members to get discounts and deals for the forum – whilst exclusively using TradeTiler for all tool transactions.

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.

Tile Trim

Tiling News Dan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:56:19 +0000

Threads on TilersForums.co.uk talking about tile trim.

TilersForums.co.uk is the UK’s busiest, friendliest, most professional tile forum, and we’re JUST TILE! We have tile sponsors from within the tile industry in the UK that provide support and advice to the forum members and guests.

Feel free to pop-by and say hello. You’ll find plenty of discounts whilst you’re there.

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Tiling Courses in Scotland

Tiling News Dan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:32:00 +0000

Tiler Training School - http://www.tilertrainingschool.co.uk/

Tilers are in great demand due to the shortage of skilled workers trained to a high standard and the ever increasing demand for ceramic and natural stone in homes and commercial premises. With the potential to earn £30,000+ per

Tilers Forums updates the Tile Forums

Tiling News Dan — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:33:13 +0000

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.

TilersForums.co.uk Recommended Tiling Courses

Tiling News Dan — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:05:27 +0000

TilersForums.co.uk Recommended Tiling Courses:-

Tiling Courses by North East Tiling Training | Course Feedback
Tiling Courses by Chase Tiling Academy | Course Feedback
Tiling Courses by Diamond Training | Course Feedback
Tiling Courses by UK Tiling Courses | Course Feedback

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Porcelain Tile

Tiling News Dan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:33:59 +0000

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Polished Porcelain Staining!

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1st porcelain wall

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Which porcelain hole cutters do you use?

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Preparation of floorboard area for porcelain tiles

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Large Porcelain Tile Adhesive – which product?

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Problems cutting porcelain with Rubi

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Expert drilling of porcelain tiles

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Porcelain Floor

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porcelain tiles

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cutting porcelain tiles DIYer

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Cleaning Porcelain tiles

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Should Porcelain be sealed

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What is the difference between standard “ceramic” tiles and porcelain tiles?

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Fixing Porcelain and Vitrified Tiles to Internal Walls

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20” Italian Porcelain Tile

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Do you charge more for porcelain?

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bathroom floor porcelain tiles brick bond!!

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Stains on Porcelain tiles

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Porcelain Tiles

Hi all I would like some help when choosing Porcelain tiles i am getting confused between Polished and glazed tiles. I am most interested in 60 x 60 tiles and …

Removal Of Granfix Grout From Porcelain Tiles

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60cm porcelain wall tiles

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Porcelain Repair?

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polished porcelain

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first porcelain

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Porcelain tile care………

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first porcelain large format HELP!

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Porcelain Tiles on Kitchen walls

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Porcelain Polished tiles

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Porcelain wood?

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Removing Floor adhesive from polished porcelain

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Help Laying Porcelain Tiles

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Rapidset floor adhesive and porcelain?

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porcelain tiles on slightly uneven concrete floor

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Porcelain Tiles

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porcelain nippers

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Large Porcelain First Job

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Porcelain strip mosaic

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Polished Porcelain

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Any tips on fitting Porcelain wall mosaic?

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Problems with porcelain

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Ts30 and porcelain

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