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    British Telecom (BT Customer Street)

    Ok get comfy as I may or may not be about to rant/waffle/bore you. Over the years I’ve had many calls from a company called u-find-us aka customer street, they ring you up and tell you they have work ready and waiting in your area as the opening gambit, they then proceed to try and sell you...
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    British GP125

    Years ago when i was competing in motorcycle trials my riding companion and good friend was Tony. At this time we would travel each sunday and sometimes the saturday too competing in Trials all over the country. Due to my emmigration to Australia, we lost touch but recently due to a job i have...
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    Required Tiling Standards | Wall and Floor Tiling

    As someone who does some tiling but is not a professional tiler, could someone tell me if there is a British Tiling Standards which specifies allowable errors in tiling work? i.e. all tiles must be laid with a lippage of less than 0.5% of the longest length or something similar? I appreciate...
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    A thumbs up to british tile manufacturing.

    Nice to see a british company fighting back at importing and the recession. YouTube - 29 01 2009 12 41 53 BBC2 Working Lunch British Ceramic Tile Co
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    err great british justice????????

    just got home from work. picked up my paper, found out stevee gerrard found not guilty of affray????? having watched the cctv footage he claims that although the only punches thrown were an elbow by one of his friends and 3 uppercuts by mr gerrard, he felt threatened even though there was 5 in...
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    British Open

    Got a call tonight from my cousin asking me if i want free tickets for the open Sat/Sun and an overnight stay FOR FREE?Well give me a couple of days to think about it(NOT)...I COULD HAVE BIT HIS HAND OFF. HAPPY DAYS....Anyone else going ?:hurray:
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    British Grand Prix **Thread Contains Spoilers **

    Well, The britsh guys didnt do so well today, Nothing new for hamilton whose having a disasterous season, how can his car be so bad? Have the other teams really improved so much, even the back markers are giving him a run for his money this season. Shame JB didnt take another win, he must...
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    The British Army Retirement Bonus

    The British Army found they had too many officers and decided to offer an early retirement bonus. They promised any officer who volunteered for retirement a bonus of £1,000 for every inch measured in a straight line between any two points in his body. The officer got to choose what those...
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    british trades direct

    got a call today from company called builders trades database (btd).anybody heard of or used them before - they ask for a `admin` fee off £230 and then charge 2.5 % commision of anything over £1000.never liked this sort of thing before but thought i`d better check. many thanks
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    British Standards ? Set me straight please ?

    Please can someone set me straight on this British Standards issue ? Of all, of our members I imagine that only a small percentile are familiar with all of the British Standards pertaining to tiling ? Copies of which ( as far as I am aware ) are only available to purchase at an exorbitant...
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    German traffic cops angered by British muppet

    German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic cams with a Muppet - Boing Boing :grin::thumbsup:
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    British Standard help!

    I am trying to put together a quote and letter for a customer who wants to rip up and replace 45sqm of newly laid polished porcs. The builder (yes-builder!) has done a pretty terrible job with deviations in height of up to 3mm from one tile to the next. Used a 5mm trowel - 20% coverage / no...
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    The Great British Heroes bike Ride.

    Hello Boys and Girls, No beating around the bush I'm on the scrounge for your money, please see the attachment. Dan, I realise that the Forum was not designed to be used for charity fund raising, I am only asking as I know that a lot of members are Ex-forces and I'm trying to raise as much...
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    Revised British Standard.......

    The Tile Association is delighted to announce the publication of the revised British Standard, BS5385-3:2007, Design and installation of internal and external ceramic and mosaic floor tiling in normal conditions - Code of practice. All part of the British Standard for tile fixing have been...
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    British standards..info......

    Just a quick sumary of what a bsi is!!......dave... What is a standard? Put at its simplest, a standard is an agreed, repeatable way of doing something. It is a published document that contains a technical specification or other precise criteria designed to be used consistently as a rule...
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    British Standards code of practice

    Hey. Quite a lot of people on here talk about setting out the tiling job to the british standards code of practice. Anyone got a link for some info on this ? as I want to see if we were taught any different to these so called propper standards. Cheers.
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    Important Changes to Tiling Standards

    IMPORTANT CHANGES TO BS 5385-1 WALL AND FLOOR TILING Tiling Standards | BS 5385 As part of the five-year review of British Standards and reflecting changes within the tiling industry since 2009 – BS 5385 Part 1: 2018 has now been published. One significant change made was to exclude the use of...

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