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Just got a call from Stuart. Stuart owns a tile shop and is currently looking for tilers (maybe 2 or 3) to finish off a job in the South of France. Immediate start for approx. 1 week. Flights/transfers/accommodation paid for. Mosaic tiling and natural stone. You have to be a top notch tiler as...

A builder has a floor for me to tile: 4sqm in an ‘L’ shape bathroom. 18mm ply. No deflection. 30x30 porcelain tiles. He says he has had problems with floors in the past so now he uses Mapetex Sel matting as an uncoupling membrane. He said use rapidset flex to stick it to the floor. However...

Every time I go to Topps for Hardiebacker the price goes up. Currently Topps price for 250 is £13.49 (trade £12.93). A saving of a massive 56p. Quick Google comes up with a company called INSULATION EXPRESS. Hardie 250 is £8.76 (inc vat). Plus £20 delivery charge. You only have to buy 5...

I met a tiler who always used insulation boards instead of Hardiebacker. I’ve got a job coming up next week that involves taking up 6mm ply (nailed & probably glued) to the floorboards. The kitchen units were then put on top! I’ve quoted for Hardiebacker, but am now thinking that 6mm...

Have no work on at the moment so I rounded up all the metal rubbish from behind the sheds & trees in the garden. Bags of old copper pipe and bits of lead etc. I took it down to the scrap metal merchant and they gave me £87. To try and make some money I've been looking at buying stuff at...

I broke a tile today. So what, I hear you ask! The tile was 3m x1m :yikes:. It sort of took off in the wind when I tried to take it out of the crate. It's called Techlam and it comes in 3mx1m sheets. The Youtube video claims it is light, strong, flexible, easy to cut bla bla bla. In my...

I got my new Makita from stonetools the other day. I bought the full set of dry disks too. For the past week or so I have been trawling through the web in search of tips on how to remove blemishes, glass marks, fruit burns from white marble. I have come up blank. Today I have tried out the...

I was given a job to overboard 29sqm of kitchen floor with ply or backerboards. The room was bare (i.e. no units). 3 doorways and part of the floor was concrete. Then I had to prime & tile in travertine (Opus Romano / French pattern). Seal & grout & seal. Some of the room also had upstands...

I have a customer that has a white marble worktop. It is riddled with glass marks, vase marks, marks from seeping lemons and fat from the fryer. Someone has tried to clean it in the past and the shiny surface is very dull and rough in parts. I was thinking about buying a stone polisher and pads...

It's back again (from Monday)! £29.99 will buy you a Fein...........sorry, a Bosch................sorry, a Parkside multi-purpose tool. These machines fly off the shelves so good luck. LIDL Great Britain - lidl.co.uk

I don’t think it was the drink talking, but I was with a bloke I used to work with last night. He is looking at me to do his tiling in his new extension. He told me that it was tiled about 12 years ago. The tiles are those hex tiles with a smaller diamond insert tile. The tiler tiled it all in 4...

Not exactly tiling related, but worth a mention if you have this phone. I have a Motorola Defy (supposedly ‘life proof’ phone). I dropped it from my lap whilst getting out of the car. It hit the gravel drive and the glass smashed (making a sound like a smashed lightbulb). I popped into...

I have a customer that has had his shower tiled in crackle glazed tiles. When the shower is turned on, water comes through into the hallway. Various tests have determined that the silicone seal around the shower tray is ok. The water seems to be going through the grout on the wall that the...

This is by far the biggest job I have committed to undertake. At first I was going to do all the work myself, but after thinking about it (and having nightmares) I am going to have to get someone else to help me. This extra person is another tiler. The job: Remove 40sqm of ceramic tiles in...

I’m currently working in Gerrards Cross for a nice couple in their 70’s. The man has just undergone surgery for a brain tumour. I worked at their place on Wednesday, but was not able to complete my job due to overbooking. I tried to call the lady of the house yesterday to ask if I could work...

Just been given a 2 day job to tile a porch. I popped around today to have a quick look and found painted brick & quarry tiles. I know the paint will have to come off, but do you think that a layer of SLC would be best suited before I tile? Slate tiles are to be laid, but I am concerned...

I saw a limestone staircase today. The customer wants all the joints made invisible (see attachment). The gaps are between the treads & risers, and between the outer/inner strings and treads. We are only talking about gaps of about 1mm, but they are quite visible. I was thinking of using a...

A couple of weeks ago a chap phoned me as he was after a tiler to finish the job he started in his Mums bathroom. ‘I can’t be bothered to finish tiling her floor’ he said. He also said that his mate is a tiler and that his mate said that it would only take a couple of hours to cut/lay/grout...

I had this problem a few months ago when I tiled my Inlaws bathroom. The solution was to turn the bath around. The problem is that the bathroom window overhangs the bath. The customer wishes to install a glass shower screen. The customer has suggested that the side of the window is padded out...

A couple of years ago I tiled Roger Moore's kitchen. It was not the famous Roger '007' Moore! Today I am just off to do a quote for Kenneth Williams -ohh stop messing about! As you have already guessed, it's not the famous Carry on character. Anyone else had famous named customers?