chicken tiles

[jimthetiler]

Have I just stripped out a kitchen of the last chicken tiles ever in the uk,please say yes.
by the way if any one would like a souvenir they are on ebay,whip over and grab a bargain:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Deleted member 9966]

jim, what do chicken tiles look like??

 

[Chalker]

Do you mean like these?

If so there are millions still fitted.

 

[Dan]

They're not stone, this has been posted in the wrong forum category. I'll move it over.

Chicken tiles were made by Johnsons Tiles in the, what, 80's?

And accidentally the pattern on the front if put the right way up would look like chickens. Although they weren't meant to be, and some fitted them in a random direction, customers did used to complain and assume they were all meant to go with the chicken standing the right way up.

I'll try to find you a picture.

Some horrible colours back then. Seen loads of tiles on top of tiles in kitchens, and when you pulled off the first layer, chicken tiles were under them. I bet that's happening less and less these days though. I've not seen it mentioned for a long long time lol so you might just be the last!!

 

[Dan]

Or was it Pilkingtons who made them?!?!?!?!

Well done Chalker!!!!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Yep - just retiled a '70s cloakroom that had 108x108mm textured vein in pink! (4.25" in old money)

 

[White Room]

Remember putting them up in 75...soooooooooo long ago.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Bit of both Dan - Johnsons Cristal made the 'chicken' textured vein range from the early 70s and Pilkingtons brought out a no pattern vein due to its success and innovative design!

 

[Qwerty]

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

 

[Dan]

Ahhhh there you go then. Swear I saw them in the blue pilks packaging, and originally remembered some in white johnsons packaging. Lots and lots of dust on them. Back in the topps tiles days.

Notice the colour was taken from a sample of vomit in the picture. lol

 

[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:

 

[Time's Ran Out]

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

Yes but you could buy a tin of Hovis for 1d and still have change for a new bike to push up the hills around Oldham on your paper round!
Bet you still wear the flat cap and clogs in an evening?

 

[afright]

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'.

Did a big job once using Donkey brown 6 x 6 about 50 sq yds with another tiler grouted in white got back to the yard the boss had a phone call ,it should have been grouted in buff not are fault so we was sent back next day to remove the grout and regrout in buff ,the tiler I was with said wont be a minute he came back with a big tin of mustard powder he made a slurry and we covered the grout joints with it,and it worked spent the rest of the day on Brighton seafront with pay.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Had a similar issue with 6 inch solitaire in about 1980. Went back to a job to do more work and couldn't remember using a yellow grout in the kitchen and it transpired she'd been cleaning them down with dusters! Grouts were prone to accepting moisture in the 'good old days'!

 

[Tom Flahive]

Have I just stripped out a kitchen of the last chicken tiles ever in the uk,please say yes.
by the way if any one would like a souvenir they are on ebay,whip over and grab a bargain:smilewinkgrin:

I can't find them on Ebay. I need brown veined "chicken tiles" pilkingtons.