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    construction skills college limited - wolverhampton

    hi I recently completed the 2 week intensive tiling course at Construction Skills College in Wolverhampton. The course was excellent and i would recommend it to anyone who is thinking about tiling full time, self employed or just DIY. I am now going to be a self employed tiler myself. I have...
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    UFH and unusual floor construction

    Hi All, My first post! I've tiled three bathrooms before, but walls not floors. I am renovating a house and have a 22sqm kitchen diner with a floor that needs tiled. The floor is a suspended timber floor but under instruction from the UFH manufacturer I counterbattened the underside of the...
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    Tiling Courses by Construction Skills College Limited

    TILING COURSES. Dave Hare from Construction Skills College informs me that they have reviewed, amended and improved the courses that they offer. They have reviewed customer feedback prior to reviewing the course content with local tiling contractors to ensure that the courses they offer meet...
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    11,400 jobs will be lost in the construction sector due to VAT rise.

    VAT Increase Will Cost more than 11,000 Construction Jobs, warns FMB VAT rise & construction Your thoughts on this.. is it all hype.?
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    Wetroom construction

    Hello, ok I have read alot of different views over them past few months on wetrooms and it seems to me that there is no golden rule here. Just make sure your walls , floor, are all waterproof... hmm. Well this is my scenario: I am now on the second part of my house extension and I'm on the...
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    Wall Construction suggestions please

    Hi All, I've got a situation I'm not sure how to resolve and wanted some advice / experience if possible please. The bathroom I'm looking at has 2 outside walls, both of which are stone with no cavity insulation. The customer is requesting some insulation is added to the wall interior prior to...
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    Interior wall construction

    Hi all, I was just wondering if it was common for interior non load walls to be made from just 3 20mm plasterboards sandwiched together. The outer two layers are solid boards obviously as they are either side of the wall but the middle looks like 150mm strips laid across in the middle. I...
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    floor construction

    some advice please anyone. starting a kitchen/utility/conservatory tomorrow with approx 50m2 of tiling. what i am concerned about is the floor consruction in the kitchen. at present there is karndean layed on 6mm ply but beneath that the original floor is a concrete sub floor with polystyrene...
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    Floor construction

    Hi - New to flooring and would appreciate advice on my proposal for floor build up in new graden room. Have to build up approx 100mm from new slab (incorporating dpm below) to existing floor level and propose:- Treated softwood battens at 450mm crs with 25mm celotex insulation between, 22mm T &...
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    st helens construction centre merseyside

    I am studying wall and floor tiling at st helens construction centre in merseyside its a course which when finished you obtain a diploma in wall and floor tiling i find my course to be very enjoyable and informative obviously not as beneficial as on site experience but its a good course the...
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    Construction Skills Wolverhampton - C&G 6217-04 unit 18

    I am about to complete the 2 week course tomorrow, after 2 weeks of training at the Wolverhampton centre. If you are thinking about doing a tiling course then I cannot recommend this course enough. I was lucky enough to be on the course with a good group of people. Howard (the trainer) is...
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    wet room construction etc

    Hello, I am going to look at a job in a couple of days and need advice. The ckient wants to consruct a wet room in the loft conversion in a 100 year old house. Green chip on the floor, all walls and ceiling newly plastered. How does the necessary sloping get constructed - by the on site chippy -...
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    Best wetroom floor construction tips

    Hi im building my first wetroom and would just like advice / approval or otherwise before i get my floor down Its first floor timber and iv striped to exposed joists (8x2 ) and intend laying 18mm birch ply screwed every 300mm and all edges with noggins 10mm Marmox stuck with BAL single part...
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    Tile subfloor over osb new construction

    I was shown how to prepare the underlayment for a ceramic tile floor by simply laying 1 layer of plywood on top of the OSB flooring on a new home. The plywood was glued on with PL 400 adhesive and then screwed down every 6 inches. The tiles are now all cracking and coming loose and some of them...
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    Beyond Group/Beyond Construction

    I did NVQ Level2 Wall & Floor Tiling at Beyond Group/Beyond Construction in Peterlee....I still want to/'need to' learn much more about tiling. Thanks for providing this forum--it fills in many gaps in my knowledge about tiling and the photos of previous jobs other forum members have done are...
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    Good jobs website for tiling / construction jobs

    Hi folks does anyone know any Good jobs website for tiling / construction jobs that might be worth looking up. Im thinking of trying to get more experience under my belt before going it on my own even if its not tiling work practice in anything like plastering assisting plumbers anything for...
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    Construction Skills College

    Hi all, I'm Dave from Construction Skills College in Stoke. Please feel free to contact me regarding any issues (not just about my training centre) and I will try my best to get an answer for you. I will admit I am a long way off knowing everything but I will do my best to find out and where...
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    Web site under construction

    Once I have finished my course obviously I need to cover all the avenues possible to get my business up and running, so I have registered a domain name and now started to develop my web site its called tileladyessex.co.uk, il let u all know when it goes live.
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    Construction Skills College - Staffordshire

    Construction Skills College - Staffordshire Please leave feedback if you've been on this course.
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    Beyond Construction says hello!!

    Hello Folks! We have been hearing some good feedback about this site from our students and thought that we would come on and have a look for ourselves, i am the owner of the company and a couple of our trainers are either already on here or are about to sign up. hopefully we will try and...

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