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I was at a trade day at CTD yesterday morning and there was a rep from Genesis showing there new tiling tools and a new type of mat. The mat turned out to be there brand of plastic ply,:mad2:
I quizzed the poor chap for about half an hour on the ups and downs of this type of mat and finally forced him in to give me a demonstration,
so we got some ply and primed it with PR360 then left it to dry. While the board was drying he showed me there new tile suction clamp, it is a pump operated one so you can do it with one hand, although I do not know why you would need to, anyway he popped it on a polished porcelain 600by600 tile and it was no bother so I said how about stone? he said no problem m8 it will do all stone, even up to 40mm thick 800 by 800. So I put it to the test and picked up a piece of polished marble and as before it was no bother, but I said I would not trust it on trav or stone that has an antique finish to it. At that he got a bit miffed and wanted to prove me wrong he put it on to a tile that had a slight antique finish and lifted it and with a smug look on his face he began to say what else do you want it to do? but before he could finish the tile dropped and smashed on the floor:yikes: and at the same time I dropped to the floor in a fit of laughter.:lol::lol::lol:
He then got out the next item that was a board with padding on it, It was there new kneeling pad so I said that is missing some wheels isn’t it m8 and he said we are looking at putting something like that on it. He was a bit upset when I got my trolley out the van.:smilewinkgrin:
We went back to the piece ply and stuck the matting down, we was insistent that it made the board as strong as 18mm ply but I could see no difference in the flexibility in the board with the plastic ply and the one without, also I could lift it back off the board with very little effort again he was not a happy bunny.:mad2: :lol:
I quizzed the poor chap for about half an hour on the ups and downs of this type of mat and finally forced him in to give me a demonstration,
so we got some ply and primed it with PR360 then left it to dry. While the board was drying he showed me there new tile suction clamp, it is a pump operated one so you can do it with one hand, although I do not know why you would need to, anyway he popped it on a polished porcelain 600by600 tile and it was no bother so I said how about stone? he said no problem m8 it will do all stone, even up to 40mm thick 800 by 800. So I put it to the test and picked up a piece of polished marble and as before it was no bother, but I said I would not trust it on trav or stone that has an antique finish to it. At that he got a bit miffed and wanted to prove me wrong he put it on to a tile that had a slight antique finish and lifted it and with a smug look on his face he began to say what else do you want it to do? but before he could finish the tile dropped and smashed on the floor:yikes: and at the same time I dropped to the floor in a fit of laughter.:lol::lol::lol:He then got out the next item that was a board with padding on it, It was there new kneeling pad so I said that is missing some wheels isn’t it m8 and he said we are looking at putting something like that on it. He was a bit upset when I got my trolley out the van.:smilewinkgrin:
We went back to the piece ply and stuck the matting down, we was insistent that it made the board as strong as 18mm ply but I could see no difference in the flexibility in the board with the plastic ply and the one without, also I could lift it back off the board with very little effort again he was not a happy bunny.:mad2: :lol:
