I was trying to be helpful to those who maybe prefer a different make.
Ken your posts are very welcome and dont worry nobody is riled with your comments!!
What the moderator has done is trim yours to balance information useful to the reader (other tilers)
but with consideration to our position as a paying sponsor of this forum.
We pay to help keep the forum free for everyone to use but in return hope readers will consider benefits our products make both in value for money plus time reduction on the job.
Its a delicate mix for site owners to make sure everyone is happy. They have vetted every sponsor here and want a mix of promotional information but also want sponsors to get involved in the site. As you can see from our active postings we have racked up more than 2000 posts - not all "Buy our stuff" postings but genuine help for blokes (and women) trying to make a living as a tiler.
Ken your post is useful not only to forum readers but also to us as a factory.
We actually like to know what the competion is up to! Should we sit back and be run over on price, quality and product inovation? Of course not. When we find out information either via the forum or from our many other routes to market like trade shows, on the job, tile shops then it gives us a chance to act on it.
Real Example:
Over the summer of 2011 as a direct result of customer feedback we have been putting together and exciting new product launch for a new diamond core that we believe will be able to get more holes into C5 grade porcelain tiles. We will launch it Jan or Feb 2012 but only after rigourous testing by end users. There are twenty members of this forum taking part in agressive product testing on behalf of all tilers. At the end of this testing it will be their claims that we print on the pack. Not ours. So for example if they state that the core is good for 50 holes thats what we will use. We are also busy running them into the ground ourselves at the factory but its not a substiute for real life.
But we do have to be a bit careful. Case in point. This pack of 8mm cores at £29.99 (including VAT)
In the hardest C5 porcelain its capable of about 40 to 50 holes per pack with the 4x cores for the £29.99
Our competitors are making claims of 30 holes for a single dry core at £32.50 in C5 grade porcelain.
It can get a bit confusing! Is it better to spend £29.99 on four PORSADRILL drills and achieve better results than a single alternative core from a competitor making claims of cutting 30 holes but costs more at £32.50
Something our testing this winter will do is clarify life expectancy for cores and as I said that information WONT come from us but will instead come from the 20 forum members trusted to test the prototypes out.
More details of the new product and its testing as we get it... (That will probably all happen in another seperate post)
Not all product testing is done so seriously though...
