Tiling News

The latest news for tilers and the tiling industry


September 23, 2009

Magnum Underfloor Heating

Filed under: General, Underfloor heating — PITT Phil @ 2:10 pm

September 12, 2009

Levelflex Self Levelling Compound

Filed under: Tile Adhesive, Underfloor heating — Riley's @ 11:00 am

 Levelling Compound can be applied up to 50mm in one application (trade & public welcome)

Another fantastic offer from the adhesive & grout leaders

www.trades-direct.co.uk

supply anywhere next day delivery for only £7.95 however large your order (2 to 3 working days on large orders)

Or call us today on 01782 566166

 

FIBRE REINFORCED FLEXIBLE SELF LEVELLING FLOOR COMPOUND 

RRP £32.00 available to trade & public at only £16.00 + vat

SPECIFICATION CATEGORY: Conforms to BS 8203 Clause 18.3.

DESCRIPTION:

A free flowing, fast setting, fibre reinforced, protein free, shrinkage compensated cement based formulation for self levelling rough and uneven floors and screeds in preparation to laying a floor covering.

ADVANTAGES:

Single part, no additives required
Light foot traffic after 3 hours
Can apply from featheredge to 50mm in one application
Flexible
Ideal for under floor heating and timber substrates
Can apply ceramic, porcelain and natural stone tiles after 4 to 5 hours
High durability
Pourable self levelling compound
Protein free ideal for use in hygienic areas
Can take light, direct vehicular traffic
Shrinkage compensated

USES:
For smoothing screeds and a variety of floor surfaces. The high polymer and fibre formulation makes LEVELFLEX the ideal choice for direct foot traffic, light vehicle traffic and can be applied to concrete, asphalt, timber, plywood, chipwood, underfloor heating, old tiles, terrazzo and natural stone. Due to the strength of formulation, LEVELFLEX can be applied to a depth of 50mm in one application. LEVELFLEX is the perfect choice when preparing a substrate to lay wooden block, laminate, ceramic tiles, natural stone, vinyl, parquet, cork, carpet or painting as the final treatment.

September 1, 2009

Mapei Latex Plan Trade (Bag & Bottle)

Filed under: Tile Adhesive, Underfloor heating — Riley's @ 11:09 pm

See special offers for this unbeatable offer (limited time while stocks last) visit Trades Direct now.

Trade & Public welcome call us 01782 566166

 

Two-component, trade levelling and smoothing compound, protein-free with low odour and high compressive strength.
For levelling differences in thickness from 1-10mm to receive all types of floor coverings. Suitable for underfloor heating. Suitable for use under MAPEPROOF ESM surface membrane.
Coverage: 6m2 at 3mm thickness.
Packaging: Part A: 25 kg Powder, Part B: 5 kg Liquid.    

**BAG & BOTTLE**

Mapei Latex Plan Trade (Bag & Bottle)
Price : £17.95
Plus VAT 
Delivery £7.95 order size 1 bag to one pallet same price

October 10, 2008

Tiling News

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Find a tiler

Find a tradesman here at www.place4trades.co.uk

All the trades people found here are skilled people and most will be professionally trained at PITT tiling course centre www.professional-itt.com

At www.place4trades.co.uk you will find tile fixers from many areas across the UK.

If you contact your trades person via place4trades tell them you found them here at tiling news.

We also welcome comments about the trades person you used for that ever important tiling project.

Thank You for visiting Tiling News and we hope to see you here again soon.

http://www.place4trades.co.uk    

 

Tile Forums

Tilers forum, Tiling forum, Tile forum, Tilers forums, Tiling forums, Tile forums.

Tile forums - for tiling tips, tiling chat, and tiling advice.
For the professional, non-professional and DIY enthusiast. It’s FREE TO JOIN!

Tile forums - for tiling tips, tiling chat, and tiling advice.
Tile Forums where both the DIY and true professional can join in harmony to enjoy a wealth of knowledge, help and advice.

Tile Forums has operated for some five years and welcomes over four thousand members with a staggering seventy thousand posts full of valuable tile and tiling content.

The Tile Forum is fully supported by many companies who form part of the tiling industry.

Support can range from specialist people from manufacturing plants to financial support that helps in the running and advertising of the Tile Forums.

Financial Support Companies
 

Pitt Ltd (Training in ceramic and natural stone tiling)

www.professional-itt.com

Trades Direct (Distributors and suppliers of tiling products)

www.trades-direct.co.uk

Mapei UK (Manufacturers of quality tile adhesive & grouts)

www.mapei.co.uk

Magnum (Suppliers of quality under floor heating)

www.trades-direct.co.uk

Aquamix tile and stone care (Suppliers of water based tile care products)

www.tilestonesolutions.co.uk

Bars-by-Design (Builders of tiled Home Bars)

www.bars-by-design.co.uk

Tile & Stone Journal (producers of an industry magazine)

www.tileandstonejournal.com

Tile and Stone Journal (TSJ) is dedicated to providing information, analysis and inspiration to all sectors of the tile and stone industry in the UK and Ireland. The editorial blend accurately reflects the differing, yet complementary, information needs of retailers, fixers, distributors, agents, specifiers and manufacturers.
 

Through the pages of TSJ, readers will be kept up-to-date with global developments in the industry, through company and national profiles and informed reports from all over the world’s major ceramic tiling exhibitors, including Cersaie, Cevisama, and
Coverings.
 

TSJ is the official magazine of the Tile Association and is sent to every TTA member as a benefit of membership.
 

Tile Forums comprises of many forum sections:

Tiling Forum

The Professional’s Chat Forum

General Discussion Forum

Mapei Forum

PITT Tiling & Plumbing Courses Forum

Trades-Direct Tiling Products Forum

Pro-ITT in partnership with Aqua Mix natural stone forum

Plumbing Forum Corgi

United Tilers Forum

Quoting Forum

PITT Forums

Editorials and Articles Forum

The Tile Association Forum

Tile Related Topic’s Forum

Tile Adhesive & Grout Forum

Under Floor Heating Forum

Other Forums Forum

Tile Forums also has a team of moderators who are long serving on Tile Forums. A very professional team to help keep the Tile Forum free of un-wanted language to allow you the user to be open and free to leave the Tile Forums live on screen while you are away from your P.C.

Tile Forums welcomes some two thousand visitors per day logged on as guests. We would always encourage all guests to register to become a member; you can join Tile Forums in just one minute and enjoy the benefit of asking questions and receiving answers normally within a few minutes.

Tile Forums is advertised in many tile industry magazines along with newspaper adverts and some DIY programs aired on T.V. will offer details on their web sites ensuring you the DIYer can find and enjoy the Tile Forums.

Tile Forums encourages few adverts on the forum pages as we feel adverts stacked in and around the main pages can detract from the real content.

The Tile Forums has numerous experts available many hours each and every day, these experts offer help and advice and they are not paid a penny for their commitment to the Tile Forums, they are just very technical people who are devoted to the tile industry.

All members on the Tile Forums are real people who have registered and joined therefore the Tile Forum is very realistic not a site of fiction.

Tile Forums moderators & owners would chose fifty quality members rather than five hundred none quality members, we work hard to keep the Tile Forums full of factual information and low on peoples opinions.

The world is full of opinions that tend to change when they are introduced to facts.

Tile Forums owners are excited to announce the building of a new forum to replace the present Tile Forums, don’t worry anybody! All the past posts will still be available, we just feel there are better forums available now we are five years old, we expect a change over during the night in the first quarter of 2009 so avoiding any disruption to you the user.

If you have any idea’s you would like to put forward on how to make the Tile Forums more exciting than it already is then mail your ideas to paul@professional-itt.com

The Tile Forums was reviewed some months ago, read below their findings; the review was carried out by the Tiler Register www.tilerregister.co.uk

This is their conclusion
 

   

Over the last few weeks we’ve been using a number of forums to assess which tile forum offers the best experience for the professional tiler. Admittedly there aren’t that many tile forums out there, but if you are going to invest your time and effort in using a forum to either learn something new or offer advice to others, you have to ensure you picked the right one.

Tileforums.com recommended by UK Tiler Register

Over the last few weeks we’ve been using a number of forums to assess which tile forum offers the best experience for the professional tiler. Admittedly there aren’t that many tile forums out there, but if you are going to invest your time and effort in using a forum to either learn something new or offer advice to others, you have to ensure you picked the right one.To establish which forum was suitable for our recommendation, we had to ensure the said forum met certain criteria. Fancy features were not at the top of our requirements, neither was the graphical look of the forum but the following points were essential to determining the best tile forum for UK tilers.

  • Quality of advice and guidance
  • Professionally moderated boards
  • Unbiased opinions
  • Data and personal information security
  • Site stability and response speed
  • Overall user and visitor experience

Time and again we kept returning to the same forum for more than the criteria listed above, but for a while there was a potential contender. This contender was naturally removed from the running when we noticed threads which publicly slandered a member who had recently been banned, allowing the thread to go so far to publicly name the member and his address along with unsubstantiated claims. These claims were also mirrored on an associated blog. Please note that whilst the thread and blog post have been removed, the damage and defamation of the ex-member in question has already been done. Copies of the aforementioned threads/blog are available to interested parties.So that left a sole runner in the tile forum arena the Tile Forums run by the Professional-ITT training centre. We arranged to meet with the system administrators of the Tile Forums to discuss data security and site stability which we felt was sorely lacking on the other sites. Right from the start we were impressed with the professionalism of the staff and the dedication involved in maintaining the forums quality.So to conclude, we found the forum run by Professional-ITT to be the best overall forum experience for tilers, with exceptionally good advice and guidance. Keen moderation and an overall the members of the board are highly commendable for their professional approach.

Admittedly some may criticise the board for promoting their own products and courses, but surely that makes perfect sense was they’re ensuring that their company, forum and staff promote products that they believe are the best they can and products they believe in. This is a far more professional situation than a board that sells advertising to the highest bidder with no control over the quality of the products or courses offered.

Once again thank you for the kind hospitality offered to us by the Professional-ITT Tile Training Course staff.

Find their site page by clicking the link below.

http://www.tilerregister.co.uk/tiler-tiling-news_files/tile-forums-reviews.html

Thank you for taking the time and showing interest in Tile Forums, we all look forward in reading your questions and following up with some fantastic professional answers.

Many people have saved large amounts of cash through taking the time reading how to do the job correctly, will you be joining them? The biggest Tile Forums in the United Kingdom.

www.tileforums.com

For the professional, non-professional and DIY enthusiast. It’s Tile Forums 

January 30, 2008

Chat and advice for Home Interiors - a GREAT NEW FORUM! www.homeinteriorsforums.com

Since establishing the world famous TileForums.com we thought it would be a great idea to setup a new for Home Interiors. We’ve got just about every subject on there so there’s something for everybody, from interior design through to tiles through to lighting.
Join our forum today, it’s free. Click -> Home Interiors Forums

Have a look around, and even ask a question if you feel like it. Get involved and get useful advice from other DIY’ers and Tradesmen.

Home Interiors Forums

February 5, 2007

Heated Floors

Filed under: Underfloor heating — admin2 @ 3:09 pm

Due to the high number of requests for UFH we have taken action as follows.

Trades Direct have just taken in Underfloor Heating by Enerfoil Ltd.

I worked along side Enerfoil some 15 plus years ago and they were one of the first in the UK.

If any one wants a quote mail your plan to us and we will price the job along with a cad drawing for easy installation.

All our heating systems come with a 10 year guarantee and our thermostats and transformers come with a 2 year guarantee.

About Enerfoil.

Enerfoil Magnum Ltd is a leading manufacturer of underfloor heating in the UK and has been established for 10 years. The Magnum brand is a leading underfloor heating brand across mainland Europe . Unlike other companies Enerfoil has never had a failure in any of it’s underfloor heating elements and conforms to all latest standards and certification

Enerfoil Magnum Ltd combined advanced technology and quality of service . The product range covers small to large areas, available in low and mains voltage systems to meet all DIY underfloor heating requirements .

Enerfoil Magnum Ltd supply 3 different electric underfloor heating systems to meet all underfloor heating requirements:

Enerfoil electric underfloor heating system

This underfloor heating system is a revolutionary heating system made to a very high standard in Finland . The heating foil is only 0.2mm thick. It can be easily installed without screeds or raising of the floor levels. This low voltage system is very economical to run, Ideal under Tiles, Stone , Marble ,Slate, Vinyl, Wood and Laminate, it can even be used under carpet. Enerfoil has been used in both commercial and domestic situations, and is popular among large Hotel chains within bathrooms.

Read more information on our Enerfoil electric underfloor heating system
Enermat electric underfloor heating system
This electrice underfloor heating system is a mains Voltage system designed for existing floors and renovations. This system is suitable for larger areas under Tile, Stone, Marble and slate.

Read more information on our electric underfloor heating system
Enercable electric underfloor heating Systems
This underfloor heating system is ideal for new builds as a primary source of heat. Ideal for conservatories or extensions, Enercable has also been used as a primary heat source in new flats and apartment projects.

Read more information on our Electric Underfloor Heating System

Why have a cold floor!
Free Design Service (also CAD drawings)

E Mail pta@professional-itt.com

Call 01782 566166 anytime from 8-00am to 9-00pm 7 days

Fax drawings to 01782 566466

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Trades Direct

Underfloor heating from Trades Direct

Filed under: Underfloor heating — admin2 @ 2:46 pm

We also offer a free design service, all you need to do is send us by fax, email or post, a drawing of the area you require heated.

All our heating systems come with a 10 year guarantee and our thermostats and transformers come with a 2 year guarantee.

 

WE HAVE NEVER HAD A MECHANICAL FAILURE IN ANY OF OUR HEATING SYSTEMS !!!!

E Mail pta@professional-itt.com

Trades Direct

Outdoor outdoor De-Icing Products

Filed under: Underfloor heating — admin2 @ 2:35 pm

Enerfoil Magnum offer a cable and a mat

outdoor system:-

ENERfoil MAGNUM Outdoor cable is a unique frost-proofing concept combining a high-grade heating cable (pressure and temperature resistant) with a sophisticated floor sensor which responds to the combined cold and dampness conditions. The system only switches in when there is a risk of freezing, making it very sparing of energy. With its low purchase and installation costs and the complete lack of maintenance costs, ENERfoil MAGNUM Outdoor is the rational solution. In view of the possibility of liability claims, ENERfoil MAGNUM Outdoor may be regarded as virtually indispensable for driveways and for entrances of hotels, hospitals and other public facilities.

Characteristics:

An ENERfoil MAGNUM Outdoor system makes frost, ice and lying snow a thing of the past. With no more snow clearing and salting, your firm can get on with business without interruption. ENERfoil MAGNUM outdoor prevents accidents, slips and slides, which also reduces costs and expensive liability claims.

ENERfoil MAGNUM Outdoor Mat is an electrically operated frost-protection system, with special heating cables, prefabricated on very strong wiring mats. ENERfoil MAGNUM Outdoor Mat is a unique frost-protection concept which combines a high-grade heating cable (pressure and temperature resistant) with special mats. With its low purchase and installation costs and the complete lack of maintenance costs, ENERfoil MAGNUM Outdoor Mat is the rational solution. In view of the possibility of liability claims, ENERfoil MAGNUM Outdoor may be regarded as virtually indispensable for driveways and for entrances of hotels, hospitals and other public facilities.

Just call Trades Direct on 01782 566166

Trades Direct