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    Introducing myself

    Hi Steve , welcome to the forum , I'm pretty new too and have had my eyes opened by the skill of some of these boys . Tiling is quite a solitary job and its nice to be part of something bigger
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    Your thoughts

    Oh dear , always run it by the client first , especially if its a bit left field
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    kitchen splash

    Funnily enough , I'm doing a herringbone backsplash next week , about 5m , luckily enough its for one of my trade contacts so on day rate , gotta be a couple of days
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    Travertine Sealing

    Lithothin stain stop all the way .
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    6 Year Wet Room Leak, Am I Liable

    A £50000 car has what , a 3 year warranty ,so ethically you are in no way obliged to do the repair . If he's demanding you repair the fault and repair the damage ., I would remind him that the warranty on the drain parts was probably only a year . I f he gets testy tell him to contact the drain...
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    Porcel-Thin Tiles

    Fair comment ,they were just ultra thin , shouldn't have used your trade mark
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    Porcel-Thin Tiles

    I have tried to lay the B&Q porcel thin . disgraceful ,. Misahapen and bowed . Got 2m2 on the wall and took them off . I don't care what any of these reps say , some of us have standards
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    Is This Cowboyish Tiling

    been mixing adhesives for years , absolutely no problem .
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    Mitring 10mm Porcelain

    Been asked to mitre 10m/m Thick porcelain ....... not on my watch!
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    Hello from a unhappy person who just had there bathroom refitted

    As long as the mosaics were firmly fixed < I wouldn,t think twice about it > I shouldn't worry
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    Any mapei grout users

    Used it once , never again
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    Addy going off too fast

    Work for a contractor who was a technical adviser for years , he regually supplies adhesive 2 or 3 years out of date , never had a problem with it. Did try Granfix once , very high sand content to keep cost down , Biscem used to be the same
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    Topps Grosvenor Imitation Geometric

    Cor . she'll probably moan about the price now!
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    Addy going off too fast

    mine is the bottom of someones door , had it for bout 10 years . be lost without it
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    Topps Grosvenor Imitation Geometric

    Customers , what are they like! , You have to have a solid tile between the border and skirting . Tell her to go and look at a Victorian floor
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    Discoloured Tiles after laying...

    Never use fix and grout , dIY rubbish!
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    Mdf

    I did tile onto an mdf floor years ago , only a small utiliy and the client insisted , it came loose of course!
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    Mdf

    Hi Dan , I subbed to Fired Earth for about 25 years , and that was mostly natural flooring and handmade wall tiles. Didn't do a lot of high volume wall tiling ,because the bathroom fitters usually did it. When I left FE , had 8 or 9 months off looking for something else to do , but gradually...
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    Mdf

    Yeah , of course , just wonder sometimes if we get a bit precious about these things, 28 years maybe , but a lot of that was as a stone and terracotta floor tiler . Only 2 or 3 years as a porcelain wall tiler

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