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A trowel is a small hand tool used for digging, applying, smoothing, or moving small amounts of viscous or particulate material. Common varieties include the masonry trowel, garden trowel, and float trowel.
A power trowel is a much larger gasoline or electrically powered walk-behind device with rotating paddles used to finish concrete floors.

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    Best Trowels: Feed back on Genesis Stainless Steel Ceramic Trowel Box Set 965SET

    Hello Has anyone had any experience using the Genesis Stainless Steel interchangeable trowels? My Vitrex 6mm notched trowel handle which is made of plastic snapped off so looking for something better constructed that will last. Any alternative options welcome i.e Rubi / Raimondi etc Cheers
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    Trowel size for mosaic on floor

    Looking for a bit of advice on what size of trowel to use for a mosaic laid on the floor. The individual tiles are 50mm square, and porcelain (if that has any bearing on it). The floor is perfectly flat, although it is plywood. I lifted the original floorboards, braced all the joists (450mm...
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    Use two size trowels to build up/flatten?

    I have a valley in the cement and am not willing to use self-levelling. Only maybe around 1/4" off and it's really only one strip of the floor. Seems like using a 1/4 X 3/8 for everywhere but a 1/2 X 1/2 for that line of tiles wouldn't be a bad idea to even things out. Is that a typical practice...
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    Big floors, big trowels

    I've seen these large trowels for flooring on most tiling tool sites, does anyone use one? Do they make trowelling faster and more consistent ?
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    How many trowels do you need.

    Had a bit of a sort out and realised what a diverse bunch of trowels l need to cover the work that l do, (basically all trowel trades). The oldest goes back to the early seventies, before l discovered Marshalltown. What are your trowels like?
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    Time for some new trowels

    Been using carbon steel ones with the wooden hahand that go rusty in the blink of an eye and the adhesive dries almost instantly if ever touches the handle. Whats good to look at? Im looking for stainless, 6 and 10mm and maybe a 20x10 round notched, to cover me for almost anything I'll want...
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    Rubi Basic Line Rubi Trowels

    Screwfix are currently selling Rubi BL 6 & 10 mm trowels for under £4 inc vat :)
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    45 years - it’s time to put down my trowels!

    My illness a month ago brought home to me just how old I’d reached! My wife has been telling me for years that I should retire, sell the house and tour the world in my twilight years - so today I’ve decided That’s it - I’am off! Not much more to add really - I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this trade -...
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    BAL Kubala hand tools now in the UK

    I've been tiling for last 16 years or so. I've noticed that pro tilers use great tile cutters but often overlook hand tools. How often you bought trowel that lasted 2 jobs? I sometimes struggled with bad grout float for weeks. It all changed when I started to use Kubala tools from Poland. In...
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    Hand made trowels for large format wall tiles

    To you guys that use hand doctored trowels for large format wall tiling I have two questions . What width notch do you u use and how deep do you doctor the notch
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    Any Left Handed Tilers on here?

    This may sound like an odd question but we get asked for left handed trowels a lot, so much in-fact that we had a full range of stainless steel trowels made in left and right handed. We were wondering if there are any left handed tilers on the fourm? If so do you buy a left handed trowel or...
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    Trowel talk - Anybody use customised trowels?

    well, it's been a while since I've fitted anything over 600x600, I've been fitting 800x800 recently onto a reasonably flat floor, using the ragni trowel and a back slim I was getting fair coverage but not what I hoped for, adding a back notch with a small trowel helped a lot but it's more time...
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    Storing trowels

    I'm fed up of having a bucket with about 10 trowels in taking up precious floor space in the van, has anyone got some storage solution that's gonna change my life ?
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    Fun project coming up - bit of advise needed

    I have a colleague at work who knows that I want to leave my desk job to pursue tiling. So he has allowed me to use him as a guinea pig this weekend. My payment....... Chinese and an unlimited supply of coffee and bacon butties. I will be doing his bathroom floor. but the shape of it...
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    Storing Trowels

    Hi guys, just thought I'd ask the question, what way do you store your notched trowels in your van. I was sorting my van out today while I'm off and was just wondering if it's a good old bucket with the trowels upright in it for you, or have any of you any ingenious ways that would be new to the...
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    Different Size Tiling Trowels

    Was just on my mind and like to hear your views, have all the rubi trowels 3mm 4.5mm 6mm 8mm 10mm 12mm Obviously use trowels for small tiles for either Mosaic for 3mm Small ceramic 4.5m Then my 10mm or 12mm for bigger tiles
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    Long Trowels

    any ideas where I can get some long trowels from 5-600 long 5/10 deep. Was fitting a bathroom with bad walls 300x600 customer just said get on with it do ya best her didn't want to listen to options so thats me covered. Was thinking (wile gettimg stress) a very long trowel would help get a level...
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    What Brand Tiling Trowels Are The Best?

    I need some new trowels and was wondering what brand trowels people thinks the best. I know it's personal preference but just wanted some ideas I hear that marshaltown notched trowel are good?
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    Rubi trowels?

    Hi, I understand why Bal designed their thin bed solid bed trowel as they have although by the sounds of it people prefer the Rubi trowels. Would an 8mm square notched trowel suffice for wet areas or is a u shape version available? Thanks
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    Left Handed Tiling Trowels Rubi

    Does anybody no who still stocks left handed rubi trowels cant seem to find any online been looking at marshalltown ones aswell but cant seem to work out what is a 6mm 8mm 10mm etc can anybody help
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