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[TT Tiling]

hi all just to say ive been having one hell of a day laying these fossil sandstone , they are 900- 600 format but the things arnt square by up to 20mm out , they have come from manderine stone so gave them a call just to get its a nateral stone use wide joints :lol::lol::lol: , ok i said but would need to use a 25-30 joint becouse of the way they vary in size , so gave up on that and im cutting them all square my self :mad2: slow days ahead
anyone else used them before and could give any help

 

[Ken Bruty]

:yikes::yikes: Blimey that's some tolerance eh?

 

[hillhead]

sounds a real pain in the rear that!
hope day rate applies.

 

[TT Tiling]

sounds a real pain in the rear that!
hope day rare applies.

yes im lucky there , good customer he wants it right ,will post some pics soon to show you all ,

 

[paul flight]

whats the name for the stone? manderin are a good supplier ! are they all out of sqr?? or just a few

 

[TT Tiling]

whats the name for the stone? manderin are a good supplier ! are they all out of sqr?? or just a few

after going through the crates today ,thanks god its not all of them ,its about 35% ,so will be useing them as the cuts :lol: , and theres a lot of cuts to do

 

[The D]

whats the name for the stone? manderin are a good supplier ! are they all out of sqr?? or just a few

if they are so good they would have dealt with the problem instead of fobbing him of with that old chestnut. There are plenty of natural stones that are perfectly square so why is there’s out of square?
This is not the first time as it has happened to me also. Funnily they said the same thing to me but I was not having it so in the end they sent 6 new pallets but that was also junk.

 

[TT Tiling]

im thinking they buy low , sell high , hope the name carrys them
im lucky the guy im doing it for is cool on a day rate ,nice bloke

 

[Pebbs]

Your thinking right Dean, they are known as Mandarin S***e in my office, due to a similar problem we had.

Pebbs