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Tilemaster Thick Bed FlexiRapid offers the ideal bonding solution for large format floor tiles. The fast-track, pourable adhesive is specially developed for the solid bed fixing of ceramic, porcelain, terrazzo and natural stone tiles. It can also be used to level floors and is suitable for fixing tiles of uneven thicknesses, such as limestone flagstones […]

The next Tile Industry Golf Society event is on Wednesday 20th July 2016 at the Oxfordshire Golf Club in Thane. Coffee and bacon rolls will be served from 9am, with an 18-hole competition teeing off at 10am, followed by a three-course meal and the prize presentations. Cost is just £90 for TIGS members and £95 […]

TTA member businesses have been urged to support the young fixers who are training for the WorldSkills competition in Abu Dhabi in 2017. The three competitors for the wall and floor tiling UK squad are Jack Radford from New College, Nottingham, and Kieran Magee and Armondas Tamulis from Northern Ireland’s Southern Regional College. The TTA […]

The weber.rend OCR pre-blended one-coat render system has been used in the construction of the £12.5 million new leisure, sports and swimming pool complex recently opened at Flitwick in Bedfordshire by Central Bedfordshire Council. Significant savings in time and money have resulted from the use of weber.rend OCR specified as background render for substantial areas […]

Penrith Tile Centre recently completed an extensive tiling project using Tilemaster fixing products at Cumbrian Homes’ exclusive Carleton Manor Park development. The new luxury homes featured porcelain wood effects, unpolished tumbled marble and stone mosaics, supplied by Ca’ Pietra, Marshalls Tile and Stone Interiors and Verona. Tilemaster products were chosen to facilitate a high-spec finish […]

Surface care specialist FILA recently hosted its first Marble Roadshow, in partnership with Cosmave, Confindustria Marmomacchine and Video Marmoteca. The event was hosted in June at Musa — the Virtual Museum of Sculpture and Architecture of Pietrasanta (LU). Marble manufacturers, architects, interior designers and teams from specialist laboratories attended the roadshow, with content focused on […]

The Tile Association is working with Utilitywise to help members get better value from their energy contracts, reduce their energy consumption and save money. Utilitywise explain more about the exciting benefits for TTA members… As a partnership we understand the importance of managing your utility consumption and spend efficiently. With 46% of small businesses believing that energy […]

Employees at leading tile distributor Verona have raised more than £5,500 for Macmillan Cancer Support after cycling the entire length of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. A twelve-strong team braved the challenge, which started in Liverpool and ended in Leeds and took in 91 locks and some spectacular scenery along the way. Katy Harris, marketing […]

The 44th WorldSkills Competition will be taking place in Abu Dhabi in October 2017 and Schlüter-Systems is proud to announce their sponsorship of the UK tiling team. The WorldSkills Competition is a flagship event: held every two years, it is the biggest vocational education and skills excellence event in the world, which truly reflects global […]

Two TTA tile fixer members have the chance to compete in the prestigious EUF tiling competition at Cersaie in September. The Tile Association is a member of the EUF — the Federation of European Tile Fixers Association — with Robert Howard MBE having taken over the presidency in May this year. It is envisaged there […]