chicken tiles

[Dan]

I always smile when I see a new refit job fixed with these as I know how easy they will come off!!!

I'd fought with a fair few to be honest! Lath and plaster > BAL Primer > BAL Whitestar (or Grip was it back then before the new Grip came out agan?) - lethal combination. Replaced walls just to retile a splashback lol

 

[Qwerty]

Looks like I've been lucky then!

 

[Dan]

http://www.tilersforums.com/35-new-...es-anyone-remember-horrible-cheap-veined.html

http://www.tilersforums.com/4-guest-area/35657-identify-old-cermaic-mottled-tile.html

http://www.tilersforums.com/35-new-...oking-some-discontinued-pilkington-tiles.html

Some old threads on it!

Defo not been many threads for a while so might just be the last that have been fitted!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I always smile when I see a new refit job fixed with these as I know how easy they will come off!!!

But as they've been on for some 40 years with tubbed adhesive, I think the customer got value for money.
We would often get to a site kitchen or bathroom after the painters and find the walls emulsioned! So either the Bal Tad adhesive or the emulsion had special properties.

 

[Mr Tiler]

Sorry to jump the thread but why do johnsons state they are a British manufacturer and then have 'made in china' stamped on? Anyoneone know? Cheers

 

[White Room]

But as they've been on for some 40 years with tubbed adhesive, I think the customer got value for money.
We would often get to a site kitchen or bathroom after the painters and find the walls emulsioned! So either the Bal Tad adhesive or the emulsion had special properties.

The site agent was'nt organised then....

 

[afright]

Did hundreds of bathrooms using Johnson crystal vein tiles 4 1/4 " x 4 1/4 ",72 to the sq yd,they did do them in 6" as well .Them and the Cameo range was what was mostly fixed in the 70s you could easy do a bathroom a day,and yes fixed with the old bal tad.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Did hundreds of bathrooms using Johnson crystal vein tiles 4 1/4 " x 4 1/4 ",72 to the sq yd,they did do them in 6" as well .Them and the Cameo range was what was mostly fixed in the 70s you could easy do a bathroom a day,and yes fixed with the old bal tad.

As above, spot on in every aspect, full bathroom in a day Bal Tad etc.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Do you remember how they were boxed - 36 to a half yard with cardboard every 12 tiles!
Well I tell my son of the time I had to grout in one of my bosses bathrooms!
Not the textured vein tile but the 'donkey brown' plain colour- yes that was its actual name and as the colour was the same as the cardboard packing spacers, every 12th tile on the wall was a piece of cardboard - 24 sq yards he'd done in the day and it took me another day to rake the Bal Tad out of his joints and replace all the cardboard with tiles. All for £15.00 per week!
Dont get much more now but at least I don't have to grout in any one else's 'tiling'.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Do you remember how they were boxed - 36 to a half yard with cardboard every 12 tiles!
Well I tell my son of the time I had to grout in one of my bosses bathrooms!
Not the textured vein tile but the 'donkey brown' plain colour- yes that was its actual name and as the colour was the same as the cardboard packing spacers, every 12th tile on the wall was a piece of cardboard - 24 sq yards he'd done in the day and it took me another day to rake the Bal Tad out of his joints and replace all the cardboard with tiles. All for £15.00 per week!
Dont get much more now but at least I don't have to grout in any one else's 'tiling'.

I remember Donkey Brown TJ. But £15.00 per week, you were lucky I was on 3 Pounds 7s and 6d per month:lol: