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  1. Lou

    EIC with no building regulations compliance certificate Electrical Advice

    EIC with no building regulations compliance certificate Discussion ThreadEIC with no building regulations compliance certificate Electrical Advice May seem like a pretty silly question, but can you issue a EIC without a building regulations compliance certifcate as long as the work is...
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    FREE BUILDING SAFETY ACT WEBINARS AVAILABLE: Tilers Community

    FREE BUILDING SAFETY ACT WEBINARS AVAILABLE FREE BUILDING SAFETY ACT WEBINARS AVAILABLE The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is hosting a series of free webinars designed to provide practical advice and guidance on a range of building safety topics. Each session has been designed with a specific...
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    🔥 Did you know that Polypipe Building Products Overlay Plus underfloor heating boards can be installed onto Timber with...: Tilers Community

    🔥 Did you know that Polypipe Building Products Overlay Plus underfloor heating boards can be installed onto Timber with... Tilers Talk BB 🔥 Did you know that Polypipe Building Products Overlay Plus underfloor heating boards can be installed onto Timber with a recommended ARDEX fixing solution...
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    Stone News: Cosentino Building First-of-Its-Kind Recycled Raw Materials Plant

    Cosentino Building First-of-Its-Kind Recycled Raw Materials PlantCosentino, a global leader in producing sustainable surfaces for architecture and design, has announced plans to develop a Circular Technology Quarry "CT Quarry," a first-of-its-kind industrial-scale plant that will produce...
  5. M

    Tiles Newyork: Bits and Pieces: Updates for the Lever House, the Kesner Building and 2116 Ditmas Avenue, Brooklyn and an obituary

    Tiles Newyork: Bits and Pieces: Updates for the Lever House, the Kesner Building and 2116 Ditmas Avenue, Brooklyn and an obituary ROBERT PINART (1927-2017), Maître de verre vitrail We are saddened to report that our friend, stained and dalle de verre glass artist Robert Pinart, died on October...
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    Tiles Newyork: Art Deco Buildings and Their Lobbies: the Chrysler Building, the Film Center Building and the Kent Garage/Sofia Brothers Storage Wareho

    Tiles Newyork: Art Deco Buildings and Their Lobbies: the Chrysler Building, the Film Center Building and the Kent Garage/Sofia Brothers Storage Warehouse Art Deco style in architecture blended parts of many different art movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “The art...
  7. Lou

    Panel building; is it too late? Electrical Advice

    Panel building; is it too late? Discussion ThreadPanel building; is it too late? Electrical Advice I am 40. dont hold any quals but have always done electrical work with electricians which included panel building. I have built a good few panels without fail. I am wanting to sell 240V single...
  8. Lou

    Advice re Grade A LD2 Fire Alarm System in Freehold Building Electrical Advice

    Advice re Grade A LD2 Fire Alarm System in Freehold Building Discussion ThreadAdvice re Grade A LD2 Fire Alarm System in Freehold Building Electrical Advice HI, I'm a director of a freehold building which is 4 stories (one flat per storey), with a basement flat with its own separate entrance...
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    Automatic gyroscope laser level for building or plumbing Discussion Thread

    Automatic gyroscope laser level for building or plumbing Discussion Thread Automatic gyroscope laser level What do you think of this for the money? . Automatic gyroscope laser level for building or plumbing for the original thread on Plumbers Forums
  10. G

    Building shower pan and waterproofing

    Here is the situation. I live in Alaska. I am building a shower pan so I can tile a new shower. I just put in the pan liner after I put a sloped mixed concrete I guess you would call it underlayment. I have watched quite a few videos. Anyway I watched one and the guy said to take out the...
  11. N

    Building up height of tiles

    I have a very small tile project, but I need to have tiles come up 3/4 from the concerts slab to match existing flooring. My plan was to use Ditra XL for the added thickness. Am I missing anything. Should I look at other options?
  12. M

    Building out 10mm to Plumb

    Hi, Retiling a corner shower (brick wall). Have removed tiles and one of the walls is about 10mm out of plumb on bottom half of wall. What would anyone recommend to build this out to make wall plumb before tiling? Thanks
  13. S

    Help! Have to prove fire resistance to Building Control

    I own a shop with flats above. Have applied for retrospective building regs and the building control officer is asking me to rip out bathrooms and kitchens which back onto each other and upgrade the 30 min plasterboard which the tiles are set on to 60 mins. I just haven’t got the money to do...
  14. N

    Tiling stairs existing commercial building

    Does anyone know if AS requires a nose or edge tread on stairs when tiling a common area of an existing commercial building block of units ? R10 slip resistance is required. thanx
  15. J

    Looking for self employed wall and floor tilers for new house building sites

    Hi, we run a small tiling company based in Wiltshire with most of our work on new build housing sites. We have sites in Bristol, Chippenham, Swindon and Calne. We are always expanding and looking for self employed tilers to help out with whatever days they can. They must have experience, CSCS...
  16. Dave

    Building trade hit by shortages

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57247757
  17. F

    Installing 20mm porcelain tiles in garden, can I use regular building sand+cement?

    As the title suggests I'm hoping to get some good advice from you folks about tile adhesive for tiling 20mm porcelain tiles in a garden. The base hasn't been prepared yet but I imagine it will be 75mm concrete to an area of 8M x 4M. Forgive my ignorance but I haven't done this before so i'm...
  18. S

    Looking for wall and floor tiling work. Completed City and Guilds level 1 diploma (Leeds College of Building

    Looking for wall and floor tiling work. Completed City and Guilds level 1 diploma (Leeds College of Building) Hi I’m Furrukh finish level 1 wall and floor tiling diploma , I’m looking some work I've got my own tools & transport. I’m leeds West Yorkshire can travel. Thanks
  19. D

    Advice needed about building a granite floored wetroom in farmhouse, floor is breathable limecrete

    Hi, I am going to build a small (7m2) wet room on the ground floor of a granite farmhouse. The rest of the ground floor is drained breathable limecrete. In the wetroom at present there is compressed (structural) drainable Foam Glass insulation (Misapor). The insulating slab (lime/Misapor/sand)...
  20. P

    Marriott Ceramics and Building Services

    A reliable and trustworthy professional tiler based nr Berwick Upon Tweed, available for commercial and domestic work in the Scottish Borders, East Lothian and Northumberland. All aspects of tiling are covered: Demolition: removal of old tiles/fittings; a complete service is provided...

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