Hi everybody.
Forgot to say hi and introduce myself earlier so here goes.I am a time served tile setter with 22 years under my belt.Unfortunately this was all in the States,San francisco mainly but quite some time in New York and L.A.This means that it's going to take some time...
my run of bad luck continues,on my way home this evening tomorrows customer phones and ask me to cancel the job(was being begged by her to be put in on monday only 2 days ago)anyway! it was a supply and fit job,so ok i'll get my £ back for the tiles and can use addy and grout elsewhere,but the...
I start a small tiling job tomorrow, all set. Just two questions -
1 - Is a it OK to spread the addy with a notched trowel when there is UFH?
2 - Instructions on the addy say use a mechanical mixer, I don't have one, can I do it by hand? Will be mixing 10 kg and 2.5 litres of water...
hi to all. been looking at this site now off and on for ages and never said hello (cheeky git) anyway my names stu and i'm looking to do a course in tiling to try and help me with more jobs that i get while doing my plastering. been plastering for a year or so now after doing an course at...
Well its 3.30 am and i,ve been going back and fourth on this bloody site as to where to post this and like a woman shopping i go back to the first place i looked but half hour later lol.
getting very knacked so i,l get to the point.
I,ve finally got my website up & running on the big wide web...
every week we are bombarded by new products in the tiling industry ,the product i was most impressed with, which i discovered last year ,was the epoxy grout that comes with a certain mosaic brand,not mentioning any names here to stay on the right side of the rules , it had been years since i had...
This event is now over
For those of you near SURREY then come to the SANDOWN racecourse on Tuesday 2nd DEC 2008 or Wednesday 3rd of next week and see us Live! for the last time in 2008.
As well as our diamond drilling stand for porcelain tiles a number of other tool providers will be near by...
when doing a bathroom.....or any room infact do you usually Silicon the gap between the last tile and the celing, or do you grout. I tend to Silicon, but just wondering what you guys think?
How I laugh. Blokes just called, 50m2 floor in a restaurant, 50m2, porcelain, OK I thought works shy, so I said I'd do it £25m2 plus mats, oh, but thats such'n'such a price, could you do it for £500 all in............:mad2:
:yes:Hi Thanks to all the last posts the help was very much needed, now im looking for a dry cutter are these any good????? Link removed
thanks again :hurray:
I eventually received a cheque from some sub contracting work i did two months ago,took lots of persistant calling and several invoices later,dont think i will work for this guy again.....good ridance to bad rubbish is what i say.
Hope all newbies read this and think before they dive in to...
Just a quicky to let you know today Sunday is the last chance for all London installers, plumbers, tilers, engineers to come see us LIVE at Grand Designs 2008.
Today (Satuday) has been the busiest ever with loads and loads of traffic visiting stand.
No discounts on offer (everyone wants a...
Dan just let me in so just saying hi before I spend the next 12 hours reading all the threads I have been dying to read lol. It' funny how when your little 'whatever it's called' changes to professional tiler a big kiddie like smile breaks out across your face isn't it? ( or maybe it's just me...
In BQ car park yeasterday in my newly signed van, chap approaches me and asks if I could recommend any one to him to lay a stone floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELLO MCFLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He thought I only did ceramics, hastily sped to my mates sign shop and added several material names to...